Liliane Blaser

Liliane Blaser (born in Caracas on 23 August 1953) is a Venezuelan documentary filmmaker, anthropologist, sociologist, educator, and writer whose work has focused on the political and social history of Venezuela and Latin America. Coming from a family of Swiss and Sephardic Jewish heritage, she began making films as a teenager and became associated with Venezuela’s Super-8 film movement during the 1970s. After studying psychology at the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello and later sociology and anthropology at the Universidad Central de Venezuela, Blaser continued her film training in France, w…