Catya Plate

Catya Plate
Born
Barcelona, Spain
OccupationsArtist, Director, Writer, Animator and producer
Years active1987–present

Catya Plate is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist. She is best known for her stop-motion animated short-films The Reading, Hanging by a Thread and Meeting MacGuffin.

Life and career

Plate was born in Barcelona, Spain and grew up in Cologne, Germany.[citation needed] She attended to Montessori Gymnasium, Koeln, Germany[citation needed] before earning her fine arts degree at the Kölner Werkschulen[citation needed] and relocated to New York in 1987 through a Fulbright Scholarship for post-graduate Fine Arts studies at the School of Visual Arts. In 1997, she received an Artist in the Marketplace award from the Bronx Museum of the Arts[citation needed] and in 2008 her work was selected for permanent inclusion in the Art Base of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum.

Plate's debut stop-motion animated short film The Reading, won Best Animated Film at the Seattle True Independent Film Festival. Her second stop-motion animated short film Hanging By A Thread, premiered at Nevada City Film Festival, where it won the Best Animated Short. It also won Spirit Award for Animation at the Brooklyn Film Festival. In 2017, the second short in the trilogy, Meeting MacGuffin, the sequel of Hanging By A Thread, screened at the Academy Awards qualifying Holly Shorts in 2017, won Grand Prize for Best Animated Short at the Academy Awards qualifying Rhode Island International Film Festival,[citation needed] Shorts Production Design Award at the Other Worlds Austin Festival,[citation needed] Merit Award at the Indie Fest, Best Animated Film at the Seattle True Independent Film Festival[citation needed] and Jury Citation Award for Best Animation at the Black Maria Film Festival.

Filmography

Year Film Writer Director Producer Notes
2017 Meeting MacGuffin Green tick Green tick Green tick
2016 Speaking of Freaks Red X Red X Green tick
2013 Hanging by a Thread Green tick Green tick Green tick
2011 The Reading Green tick Green tick Green tick

References

  1. ↑ "Catya Plate: Developing a Rich Alternative Universe through Stop Motion Animation". directedbywomen.com. 30 May 2017. Retrieved 2019-03-20.
  2. ↑ "Interview with Catya Plate, Visual Artist & Director". marthasfilmcorner.com. Retrieved 2019-03-20.
  3. ↑ "THE READING". queensworldfilmfestival.com. Retrieved 2019-03-20.
  4. ↑ "Review Fix Exclusive Queens World Film Festival Coverage: Catya Plate Talks 'Hanging by A Thread'". reviewfix.com. Retrieved 2019-03-20.
  5. ↑ "MEETING MACGUFFIN". nhfilmfestival.com. Retrieved 2019-03-20.
  6. ↑ "Catya Plate". museumofnonvisibleart.com. 24 July 2012. Retrieved 2019-03-20.
  7. ↑ "AIM - ARTIST IN THE MARKETPLACE". m.bronxmuseum.org. Archived from the original on 2019-03-24. Retrieved 2019-03-20.
  8. ↑ "CATYA PLATE". brooklynartscouncil.org. Retrieved 2019-03-20.
  9. ↑ "Trailer for "The Reading", an award-winning animated stop-motion short film by Catya Plate". seattlepalate.com. Retrieved 2019-03-20.
  10. ↑ "2013 PROGRAM GUIDE" (PDF). nevadacityfilmfestival.com. Retrieved 2019-03-20.
  11. ↑ "Catya Plate Returns to 2017 Brooklyn Film Festival with World Premiere of MEETING MACGUFFIN". vimooz.com. 4 June 2017. Retrieved 2019-03-20.
  12. ↑ "2017 FLICKERS' VORTEX SCI-FI, FANTASY & HORROR FILM FESTIVAL". film-festival.org. Retrieved 2019-03-20.
  13. ↑ "OWA Award Winners". otherworldsaustin.com. Retrieved 2019-03-20.
  14. ↑ "Awards of Merit July 2017". theindiefest.com. Retrieved 2019-03-20.
  15. ↑ "2017 Award Winners (Full Program Below)". trueindependent.org. Retrieved 2019-03-20.