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]

Catya Plate
Born
Occupation(s)Artist, Director, Writer, Animator and producer
Years active1987–present

Life and career

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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]

Selected exhibitions

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  • 2018 Solo - Meeting MacGuffin, Torrance Art Museum[16]
  • 2015 Group - The Drawing Center, OPEN SESSIONS GROUP 5[17]
  • 2014 Solo - A New Brave New World, Indianapolis Art Center[18]
  • 2010 Solo - Clothespin Tarot, Center for Book Arts[19]
  • 2009 Solo - Tiny Messengers, Ў Gallery[20]
  • 2003 Solo - Close Up, Galerie Elten & Elten[21]
  • 2003 Solo - Extra Sensory Perception, Robert V. Fullerton Art Museum

Filmography

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Year Film Writer Director Producer Notes
2017 Meeting MacGuffin  Y  Y  Y
2016 Speaking of Freaks  N  N  Y
2013 Hanging by a Thread  Y  Y  Y
2011 The Reading  Y  Y  Y

References

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  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.
  16. ^ "MEETING MACGUFFIN". torranceartmuseum.com. Retrieved 2019-03-20.
  17. ^ "Open Sessions 5". drawingcenter.org. Retrieved 2019-03-20.
  18. ^ ""A New Brave New World", 2015, Solo Exhibition". mfavisualnarrative.sva.edu. Retrieved 2019-03-20.
  19. ^ "Catya Plate: Clothespin Tarot". centerforbookarts.org. Retrieved 2019-03-20.
  20. ^ "Catya Plate, Tiny Messengers". calendar.artcat.com. Retrieved 2019-03-20.
  21. ^ "CATYA PLATE - CLOSE UP". mve.ch. Retrieved 2019-03-20.
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