Valeria Sarmiento (born 1948) is a Chilean film editor, director and screenwriter. She has directed 19 feature films and documentaries since 1972. Her debut feature Notre mariage (1984) was a Grand Prix winner for Best New Director at the San Sebastián International Film Festival and her 1991 film Amelia Lópes O'Neill was entered into the 41st Berlin International Film Festival. She is the widow of Chilean film director Raúl Ruiz with whom she worked for decades as regular collaborator, editor and writer. She has also edited films for Luc Moullet, Robert Kramer and Ventura Pons and is a Guggenheim Fellow (1988). Her latest film Lines of Wellington competed for the Golden Lion at the 69th Venice International Film Festival.

Biography

Installée à Paris depuis 1974, elle a été l'épouse et la collaboratrice constante du réalisateur Raoul Ruiz.

Elle a obtenu, en 1984, le Grand prix du meilleur nouveau réalisateur du festival de Saint-Sébastien pour son premier long métrage de fiction Notre mariage. En 1991, son film Amelia Lópes O'Neill (interprété par Franco Nero, Laura del Sol, Valérie Mairesse) a été sélectionné en compétition officielle au festival de Berlin.