About Joaquin
Joaquin Garcia, born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina, studied classical composition and conducting 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.
Between 2017 and 2020, Joaquin worked as a composer and orchestrator for Uno Helmersson, in Stockholm, Sweden, where hr 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.
Currently living in Uppsala, Sweden, where he founded Aguara Studios. Since 2021 he worked in multiple projects, included 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, Peabody Award winner, While we Watched, directed by Vinay Shukla, Fighting Demons with Dragons, at TV documentary series, directed by Camilla Magid, and Daughter of Genghis, a documentary directed by Chirstian Als, Knud Brix, and Kristoffer Juel Poulsen.
Contact
+46 (0) 738 77 5524 (Sweden)
Trädgårdsgatan 11
753 09 Uppsala, Sweden
FEATured Projects
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.
Northern Travelogs
Feature Documentary
Directed by Kira Jääskeläinen
Music by Joaquin Garcia
In 1917 Finnish explorer Sakari Pälsi travelled to Northeastern Siberia carrying a cinematograph and 13,000 feet of film with him. The journey produced a unique documentary film and a travelogue. A hundred years later director Kira Jääskeläinen returns to the Bering Strait in Pälsi's footsteps. Combining old and new film footage, Pälsi's notes and the stories of the local indigenous peoples, the film highlights the story of the Chukchi and Siberian Eskimos from bygone days till today.