Valerie Buhagiar is a Maltese actress and filmmaker.
She studied acting at George Brown College in Toronto, Ontario, graduating in 1986. Her debut as a filmmaker was The Passion of Rita Camilleri, which won the Silver Plaque at the Chicago Film Festival in 1993.
Buhagiar has won two Dora Mavor Moore Awards, for The Lorca Play and White Trash, Blue Eyes.
She has also hosted film programming on the Canadian television networks Showcase and TVOntario.
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Filmography
The Passion of Rita Camilleri was Buhagiar's writing, directing and producing debut. The film has won several international prizes. The Karlovy Vary Film Festival held a retrospective of her work as an actor and a filmmaker. Other filmmaking credits include: One Day I Stood Still, L’amour L’amour Shut the Door Por Favor and BoomBoom Baby Wants to Go. She has directed a public service announcement for the Centre of Opportunity, Respect and Empowerment (C.O.R.E), a biography on Colin Linden for the Toronto Arts Awards and two Bravo!FACT shorts entitled Pictures from Home and Omneya – Wish. Buhagiar also directed the Festival of Lights, a parade full of vignettes set on rooftops of Toronto's Kensington Market, as well as video images for Theatre Gargantua's production of Nod. Tell Us the Truth Josephine – a bitter immigrant story and Small, Stupid and Insignificant both won the best experimental film at the Female Eye Film Festival.
