Catya Plate
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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 | edit source]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
[edit | edit source]| Year | Film | Writer | Director | Producer | Notes |
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| 2017 | Meeting MacGuffin | 
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| 2016 | Speaking of Freaks | Red X | Red X |
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| 2013 | Hanging by a Thread |
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| 2011 | The Reading |
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References
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External links
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