Aguara
studios AB
by Joaquin Garcia
Film Music Composer
About Joaquin
Award winning composer and founder of Aguara Studios AB, Joaquin has worked in multiple award winning projects, included Orly nominated for Best Original Score, Child of Dust, Peabody Award winner, While we Watched, directed by Vinay Shukla, BAFTA winner documentaries, Fearless: the women against Putin and London Bridge: Facing Terror, Emmy Award Winner, Inside Russia: Putins War at Home, direcred by Gesbeen Mohammad, and TVPrisen winner, Fighting Demons with Dragons, directed by Camilla Magid.
Joaquin started his career in media working as a composer and orchestrator for Uno Helmersson, in Stockholm, Sweden between 2017 and 2020, where he collaborated on a variety of projects, included award wining documentaries such as Flee, by Jonas Poher Rasmussen.
In this time he also scored Kira Jääskeläinen's documentary Northern Travelogues, and Ybing Jiang's animated short movie, Windup, for witch he was awarded best original score at the Sapporo Short Film Festival 2020.
Joaquin Garcia, born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina, studied classical composition at Universidad Católica Argentina (UCA) where he graduated with the Alberto Ginastera award for composing. After finishing his undergraduate, he completed a Master in Scoring for Film, TV and Videogames (Magna cum Laude) at Berklee College of Music in Valencia, Spain. Today he lives with his family in Uppsala, Sweden.
Contact
+46 (0) 738 77 5524 (Sweden)
Trädgårdsgatan 11
753 09 Uppsala, Sweden
FEATured Projects
Child Of Dust
Feature Documentary
Directed by Weronika Milczewska
Music by Joaquin Garcia
Fifty years after the end of the Vietnam War, Sang, the abandoned child of an American soldier, reunites with his father in the U.S., risking his family life in pursuit of healing—but nothing goes as expected.
Currently nominated for Best Documentary and Best Original Score at the Polish Film Awards (Orly).
Fighting Demons With Dragons
Feature Documentary
Directed by Camila Magid
Music by Joaquin Garcia
Three students on the precipice between childhood and adulthood are studying at Østerskov Boarding School, one of the most unique schools in the world; here, classes are conducted through role-playing games, and the students are taught to come to terms with the trauma and their fluid selves through masquerades and metamorphosis.
Daughter of Genghis
Feature Documentary
Directed by Christian Als, Knud Brix, and Kristoffer Juel Poulsen
Music by Joaquin Garcia
Gerel sees her gang falls apart and gradually renounces her violent methods while confronts her past traumas and secrets with Temuulen.