Which filmmaker was born first, Jean Eustache or Valeria Sarmiento?
Valeria Sarmiento Valeria Sarmiento (born 29 October 1948) is a Chilean film editor, director and screenwriter. She has worked both in film and television. 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 film "Lines of Wellington" competed for the Golden Lion at the 69th Venice International Film Festival.
Germaine Dulac Germaine Dulac (] ; born Charlotte Elisabeth Germaine Saisset-Schneider; 17 November 1882 – 20 July 1942) was a French filmmaker, film theorist, journalist and critic. She was born in Amiens and moved to Paris in early childhood. A few years after her marriage she embarked on a journalistic career in a feminist magazine, and later became interested in film. With the help of her husband and friend she founded a film company and directed a few commercial works before slowly moving into Impressionist and Surrealist territory. She is best known today for her Impressionist film, "La Souriante Madame Beudet" ("The Smiling Madam Beudet", 1922/23), and her Surrealist experiment, "La Coquille et le Clergyman" ("The Seashell and the Clergyman", 1928). Her career as filmmaker suffered after the introduction of sound film and she spent the last decade of her life working on newsreels for Pathé and Gaumont.