
Person
Daniel Garcés Najar
Sound · Bogotá, DC, Colombia
Biography
Daniel “El Gato” Garcés Najar was born in Bogotá. He began his musical studies at the Luis A. Calvo Academy, where he also started playing the bandola, tiple, and guitar. After completing his secondary education, he pursued studies in jazz guitar performance at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, where he discovered his passion for sound design. This led him to specialize in sound engineering. In 2003, he graduated with a degree in Music, with an emphasis in Sound Engineering, and since then he has dedicated his career to sound direction and design for film and television.
Known for

Salomé
Sound

Still Stares
Executive Producer

Marina
Sound Designer

A Paper Tiger
Sound Post Production Coordinator

Indigenous Malice
Sound Designer

Blunt Force Trauma
ADR & Dubbing

Searching for the Animal
Sound Designer

Paytime
Associate Producer

Blood and Rain
Foley Artist

Bluff
Sound Director
Filmography
- 2024Still StaresExecutive Producer
- 2024PaytimeAssociate Producer
- 2019MarinaSound Designer
- 2018Indigenous MaliceSound Designer
- 2017Searching for the AnimalSound Designer
- 2015Blunt Force TraumaADR & Dubbing
- 2012SaloméSound
- 2010Blood and RainFoley Artist
- 2008A Paper TigerSound Post Production Coordinator
- 2007BluffSound Director
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