About
Amelia Deschamps is a journalist, documentary filmmaker and TV/Radio producer from the Dominican Republic, with more than 20 years of experience.
Award winner of “Best Host of a Panel Program 2020” in the August First Awards in her country, for her job in the tv morning show “El Día” (The Day) that she co-hosted for 10 years until 2020. She is a professor of the Master in Corporate Communications at PUCMM university, and currently finished her specialty as Documentary Filmmaker at the New York Film Academy, in New York, and is a member of the International Documentary Association.
With a solid career, Deschamps has worked as a tv host and producer for two of the most recognized news channels and/or news production companies in the Dominican Republic (Noticias SIN and CDN). Simultaneously, she worked as an investigative journalist for the tv show “El Informe con Alicia Ortega”, a journalistic investigation program that has received several awards both inside and outside the country.
Amelia Deschamps and Victor Ureña. Bajo Yuna floods. Duarte province. Dominican Republic. 2007.
She has participated in the most relevant news coverage in the Dominican Republic, such as the presidential elections, managing to interview all the candidates; the news coverage of disasters such as the aftermath of Hurricanes Maria and Sandy; environmental issues such as the conflict over the lands of the Jaragua National Park and Bahía de las Águilas, where she came across new ways to attempt larceny; among other social issues.
In the international arena, in December 2017 she traveled to Paris to cover the “One Planet” summit where the Paris agreements on Climate Change were ratified. She went to Haiti for several days to report the consequences of the earthquake that destroyed Port-au-Prince in January 2010; she covered the attacks of September 11, 2001, reporting live from New York on its first anniversary. To her credit are interviews with the former Secretary General of the OAS, José Miguel Insulza, the former Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert in Israel, among others.
Since 2009 she has worked as a Communication Consultant and video director/producer for the United Nations, NGOs, and other private institutions, especially in projects and programs related to human rights; migration; environment and climate change (risk management, post-disaster recovery); areas in which she has specialized inside and outside the Dominican Republic, becoming a coordinator and facilitator of workshops for journalists.
Her sensibility for these topics and other social issues; and her passion in telling stories are the reasons that have driven her to specialize now, as a filmmaker.
Haiti earthquake, 2010. Magnitude 7, Richter scale. It is estimated that about 300,000 people died.
In 2011 she was selected by the United States State Department to represent her country in the Edward Murrow Program for Journalists. She was one of the 16 Latin American journalists selected for that edition that had more than 150 journalists from around the world.
Amelia Deschamps graduated CumLaude in Cinematography and Audiovisuals, specialized on tv, at “Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo” (UASD), she has a Master’s in Communications from the Miguel Hernández University of Valencia, Spain.
She has a Diploma in Political Science from the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO). She carried out a course-project at Georgetown University: “Inter-American Relations: A Vision for the Future” from UASD simultaneously with ten other Latin American universities; she also completed the Diploma in “Opinion Journalism in Conflict Areas” at the International Institute of Histadrut in Israel, as well as various courses related to work political and democratic system in Latin America.
Amelia Deschamps, news anchor. Noticias SIN