About

Veronika Vackova was born in former Czechoslovakia in 1988, a year before the Velvet Revolution. Growing up in the midst of enormous societal changes, Veronika got involved in art projects, studied traditional black and white photography and spent 6 years working in a youth media project in a local chapter of the "Youth Television", a project that enables young people to produce all types of films and documentaries and broadcast their own newscast on television.

At the age of 17, Veronika was selected to receive a scholarship to attend the United World College Costa Rica in Santa Ana, a unique international school representing a worldwide movement towards peace and multiculturalism . In 2008, Veronika exhibited the photographs she had taken abroad at the Museum of Modern Arts in Olomouc, Czech Republic.

Veronika received a full academic scholarship to study Film studies at Wesleyan University under the guidance of a renowned film scholar Jeanine Basinger. There, Veronika was granted a National Board of Review award to make a short film "The Old Man and the Gnome". This 16mm color short, a story of an old man who befriends a garden gnome, is a mix of all of Veronika's influences: Eastern European cinema, Latin American magic realism, and the classical conventions of hollywood filmmaking.