Valérie Delpierre

Valérie Delpierre is a Monaco-born film producer whose career has been in and around Spain . She produces films from her company Inicia Films. One of the films she produced took three Gaudí Awards for Best Film in a Non-Catalan Language, best novel Director and best Cinematography for 20,000 Species of Bees in 2024.

Life Delpierre was born in Monaco. She studied in Nice and at the Sorbonne and at the Complutense University of Madrid with an Erasmus scholarship (in International Relations). She started working in Spain teaching French before she was offered a job in the film industry. In 2006 she founded her own company, Inicia Films., which has created a range of films in terms of fact or fiction and language. In 2022 there was an election to find a successor to Barroso. The four candidates were actor Luisa Gavasa, cinematographer Teresa Medina, Fernando Méndez-Leite and Delpierre. The academaticians chose Fernando Méndez-Leite.

Awards include 2017 Woman of the Year Award from the Fotogramas de Plata. 2018 Included in the list of Screen International's emerging producers 2021 Winner of the Feroz Award for Best Drama Film for Pilar Palomero's Schoolgirls, shared with Alex Lafuente 2023 Included among "The 40 most influential women in international cinema" by the American publication The Hollywood Reporter. 2024 Winner of the Feroz Award for Best Drama Film for 20,000 Species of Bees by Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren, shared with Lara Izagirre 2024 Winner of the Gaudí Awards for Best Film in a Non-Catalan Language, best new director and best cinematography for 20,000 Species of Bees, shared with Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren and Lara Izagirre; and Best Short Film for El bus, shared with Sandra Reina, Francisco Menchón and Jaume Fargas i Coll.