Valerie Buhagiar (partial data)

Countries: Canada / Malte
Born: 1963

Films directed by Valerie Buhagiar

The Passion of Rita Camilleri (1993)
One Day I Stood Still (1996)
L'amour l'amour Shut the Door Por Favor (1998)
Tell Us the Truth Josephine: A Bitter Immigrant Story (2006)
Small, Stupid, and Insignificant (2010)
The Anniversary (2014)
It's Hard to Be Human (2018)
Carmen (2022)

Quote by Valerie Buhagiar

"I started as an actor and didn't have ambitions to direct. At some point I had a story to tell and wondered if it could be a play. That would have been easier, since I knew how to do it. I had no education as a filmmaker, aside from being on film sets. But as I thought through the images I wanted to transmit in this story I realized it wanted to be a film. So I made a film—The Passion of Rita Camilleri—and every film since has been about finding the language to explore a theme or idea. Like Tell Us the Truth, Josephine, in which I walk across Canada on stilts as a way to think about immigrants. Everything I want to do is driven by images, themes, ideas."
-- Valerie Buhagiar (source)

Notes about Valerie Buhagiar

Director, actor, and screenwriter.
Born in Malta.
Grew up in Toronto.

(sources)

Bibliography for Valerie Buhagiar

Section 1: Publications about the Films of Valerie Buhagiar

It's Hard to Be Human (2018)

Articles from Newspapers, Magazines, or News Websites

Teodoro, José. "An interview with: Valerie Buhagiar; 'It's scary to make a film about God and limbo'." Interview with Valerie Buhagiar. TFCA: Toronto Film Critics Association, April 18, 2019.