Catya Plate
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| Occupations | Artist, Director, Writer, Animator and producer |
| Years active | 1987–present |
Catya Plate is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist.[1][2] She is best known for her stop-motion animated short-films The Reading, Hanging by a Thread and Meeting MacGuffin.[3][4][5]
Life and career
[edit]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.[6] 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.[7][8]
Plate's debut stop-motion animated short film The Reading, won Best Animated Film at the Seattle True Independent Film Festival.[9] Her second stop-motion animated short film Hanging By A Thread, premiered at Nevada City Film Festival, where it won the Best Animated Short.[10] It also won Spirit Award for Animation at the Brooklyn Film Festival.[11] 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.[12][13][14][15]
Filmography
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| 2017 | Meeting MacGuffin |  |
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| 2016 | Speaking of Freaks |  |
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| 2013 | Hanging by a Thread | |
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| 2011 | The Reading | |
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References
[edit]- ↑ "Catya Plate: Developing a Rich Alternative Universe through Stop Motion Animation". directedbywomen.com. 30 May 2017. Retrieved 2019-03-20.
- ↑ "Interview with Catya Plate, Visual Artist & Director". marthasfilmcorner.com. Retrieved 2019-03-20.
- ↑ "THE READING". queensworldfilmfestival.com. Retrieved 2019-03-20.
- ↑ "Review Fix Exclusive Queens World Film Festival Coverage: Catya Plate Talks 'Hanging by A Thread'". reviewfix.com. Retrieved 2019-03-20.
- ↑ "MEETING MACGUFFIN". nhfilmfestival.com. Retrieved 2019-03-20.
- ↑ "Catya Plate". museumofnonvisibleart.com. 24 July 2012. Retrieved 2019-03-20.
- ↑ "AIM - ARTIST IN THE MARKETPLACE". m.bronxmuseum.org. Archived from the original on 2019-03-24. Retrieved 2019-03-20.
- ↑ "CATYA PLATE". brooklynartscouncil.org. Retrieved 2019-03-20.
- ↑ "Trailer for "The Reading", an award-winning animated stop-motion short film by Catya Plate". seattlepalate.com. Retrieved 2019-03-20.
- ↑ "2013 PROGRAM GUIDE" (PDF). nevadacityfilmfestival.com. Retrieved 2019-03-20.
- ↑ "Catya Plate Returns to 2017 Brooklyn Film Festival with World Premiere of MEETING MACGUFFIN". vimooz.com. 4 June 2017. Retrieved 2019-03-20.
- ↑ "2017 FLICKERS' VORTEX SCI-FI, FANTASY & HORROR FILM FESTIVAL". film-festival.org. Retrieved 2019-03-20.
- ↑ "OWA Award Winners". otherworldsaustin.com. Retrieved 2019-03-20.
- ↑ "Awards of Merit July 2017". theindiefest.com. Retrieved 2019-03-20.
- ↑ "2017 Award Winners (Full Program Below)". trueindependent.org. Retrieved 2019-03-20.