Valeria Puig

Valeria Puig (May 28, 1988) is a Uruguayan film-maker working in both fiction and documentary. She has worked in several scripts with directors such as Shelagh McLeod, Simon Shepherd, Juan Pittaluga and Darlenne Susan Girard. Valeria has worked in eighteen short films, four feature films and a ten episode series for TV. She is the owner and director of Dragonfly Films Ltd, a film production company founded in March 2012.

Family Life

Valeria was born in Montevideo, Uruguay. Her family is French, Italian and Portuguese descendant from the different immigration waves to South America during the twentieth century.

Education

Valeria started studying film directing at the Cinema School Dodeca when she was fifteen and at the age of eighteen she received a full scholarship to go do her BA in Spectacle Arts (License en Arts du Spectacle) at the Universite de Poitiers.[1] She then left as an Erasmus student to Rome with another full scholarship to do her last year of degree at the Sapienza University of Rome. She graduated from her bachelor's degree in 2009.

That same year she received a full scholarship based on academic excellence, professional development and personal motivation to go do an MA in Script-Writing and Producing for Film and Television at the University of Westminster in London where she worked with producers such as Nick Goldsmith.

Valeria is fluent in English, French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese and has knowledge of Arabic and Polish.

Films

Year Film Writer Director Producer Role
2014 The World Behind a Glass x x x
2012 White Collar Hooligans 2: England Away Production Manager and 2nd AD
2011 Run Script Editor
2011 Confessions of a Taxi Driver x x x Director, Writer and Producer
2010 Male Mode Still Photographer and Editor.
2010 How to Become a Criminal Mastermind Production Coordinator and 2nd AD
2010 Freefalling x x Script Editor and Story Consultant
2009 Domino Director of Photography
2009 The Cube x Co-Producer Camera Operator
2009 Figlio di x Involved in pre-production
2009 Dario Fo Co-Editor
2009 G in Key Major Co-Writer Co-Director Co-Producer
2009 Funk & Angel Script Editor and Story Consultant
2008 The Lines of the Road x x x Camera Operator
2008 Mic & Rob Co-Writer Co-Animator
2007 Punta del Este Script Editor and Story Consultant

References

  1. ↑ Valeria Puig at the Internet Movie Database
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