Dominican living in Barcelona since 2018. Film director and analog photographer. I try to create stories that come from my own experiences as a way to connect with other people, and most of all, with my inner child and the woman I am becoming. 

I graduated as a film director at the Escola de Cinema de Barcelona (Spain) with also a cinematography diploma.

My most recent movie is the short film JUANITA (2025), co written and co directed with Uliane Tatit. The film won the ICEC grant and it had its World Premiere at the 75th BERLINALE, i the prestigious A category International Film Festival. It was part of the Berlinale Generation KPlus Selection. 

My first and graduate short film "O que me parta un rayo" (May lightning strike me down)(2023) has it premiere at the 56tH SITGES Film Festival winning best screenplay in the New Filmmaker category, and has been also screened in the 27th Festival de Málaga, the Oscars and Goya qualifiers Brussels Short Film Festival and the 52th Huesca Film Festival, and also The 43rd FilmSchoolFest Munich and more prestigious film festivals, in countries such as Spain, Germany, Belgium, Brasil, Italy, Colombia, México, Uruguay. Thanks to this film, I have won Best Female Director, award given by CIMA in the Festival Corto Ciudad Real.

As a film photographer I have photographed personalities such as Isabella Rossellini, Rigoberta Bandini, Macarena García, Amaia, Iria del Río, among other inspiring women.

Also, graduated with a bachelor degree in advertising and worked as a Creative Copywriter from 2014 to 2018 in the internacional agencies:  PUBLICIS, BBDO and YOUNG & RUBICAM. 

In 2016 I was the Dominican representative in Young Lions Cannes, at Cannes France, in the category: FILM.

Currently, Im writing my debut feature film; A co-production to be filmed in the Dominican Republic and Spain.

For inquires: 

karen.joaquin1@gmail.com | +34 655 95 47 39