VERONICA PAMOUKAGHLIAN

Veronica Pamoukaghlian is a multilingual writer and filmmaker born in Uruguay.

A successful travel blogger since 2010, Veronica has written blogs showcased on USA TODAY and THE CHICAGO SUN-TIMES. In 2011, film critic and writer Roger Ebert called Veronica “a voice that needs to be heard.”

Her literary works have been published by The Acentos Review, Naked Punch, Seal Press, the Galway Review, the International Museum of Women, Poetry Magazine, the Southern Pacific Review, Sentinel Literary Quarterly, and Prism, among many other prestigious international publications.

Her feature documentary RAŚL, a coproduction between Uruguay and Los Angeles won the Best Documentary Award at the 1st East Harlem International Film Festival in New York and an Award from the Argentinean Senat. It was screened on film and TV in Mexico, Italy, and Argentina. Named after its protagonist, RAŚL tells the story of a charismatic 75-year-old Uruguayan athlete, who travels to Finland, in order to try to become the Decathlon champion of the world.

Veronica is the head of Uruguay-based NEKTAR FILMS. She currently divides her time between Montevideo, Europe, and the US. A selection of her poetry has appeared on the book “Words fly away, poems for Fukushima;” San Francisco, 2014.

She has been in the jury of Dona I Cinema Film Festival (Valencia, Spain, 2011) and a member of the selection committee for FAM Panvision festival (Florianopolis, Brazil, 2014). In October 2014, Veronica was a guest lecturer on Uruguayan film at the University of Louisville, Kentucky. In February 2015, she was appointed as a Narrative Fiction and Introduction to Screenwriting Professor at Uruguay ́s Technical University (UTU).

She is currently a non-fiction editor at Sutton-Hart Press

Learn more about Veronica at veronicapamoukaghlian.com