Catya Plate

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| occupation =Artist, Director, Writer, Animator and producer

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| yearsactive = 1987–present

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Catya Plate is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist.{{Cite web|url=https://directedbywomen.com/catya-plate/|title=Catya Plate: Developing a Rich Alternative Universe through Stop Motion Animation|website=directedbywomen.com|date=30 May 2017 |access-date=2019-03-20}}{{Cite web|url=https://marthasfilmcorner.com/interview-catya-plate/|title=Interview with Catya Plate, Visual Artist & Director

|website=marthasfilmcorner.com|access-date=2019-03-20}} She is best known for her stop-motion animated short-films The Reading, Hanging by a Thread and Meeting MacGuffin.{{Cite web|url=https://www.queensworldfilmfestival.com/films/detail.asp?fid=205|title=THE READING

|website=queensworldfilmfestival.com|access-date=2019-03-20}}{{Cite web|url=https://reviewfix.com/2016/07/review-fix-exclusive-queens-world-film-festival-coverage-catya-plate-talks-hanging-by-a-thread/|title=Review Fix Exclusive Queens World Film Festival Coverage: Catya Plate Talks 'Hanging by A Thread'|website=reviewfix.com|access-date=2019-03-20}}{{Cite web|url=https://nhfilmfestival.com/films/meeting-macguffin/|title=MEETING MACGUFFIN|website=nhfilmfestival.com|access-date=2019-03-20}}

Life and career

Plate was born in Barcelona, Spain and grew up in Cologne, Germany.{{cn|date=November 2024}} She attended to Montessori Gymnasium, Koeln, Germany{{cn|date=November 2024}} before earning her fine arts degree at the Kölner Werkschulen{{cn|date=November 2024}} and relocated to New York in 1987 through a Fulbright Scholarship for post-graduate Fine Arts studies at the School of Visual Arts.{{Cite web|url=https://museumofnonvisibleart.com/interviews/interview-with-catya-plate/|title=Catya Plate|website=museumofnonvisibleart.com|date=24 July 2012 |access-date=2019-03-20}} In 1997, she received an Artist in the Marketplace award from the Bronx Museum of the Arts{{cn|date=November 2024}} 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.{{Cite web|url=http://m.bronxmuseum.org/aim/aim-artist-in-the-marketplace|title=AIM - ARTIST IN THE MARKETPLACE|website=m.bronxmuseum.org|access-date=2019-03-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190324123417/http://m.bronxmuseum.org/aim/aim-artist-in-the-marketplace|archive-date=2019-03-24|url-status=dead}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.brooklynartscouncil.org/artists/1853|title=CATYA PLATE|website=brooklynartscouncil.org|access-date=2019-03-20}}

Plate's debut stop-motion animated short film The Reading, won Best Animated Film at the Seattle True Independent Film Festival.{{Cite web|url=https://seattlepalate.com/films-theatres/trailer-for-the-reading-an-award-winning-animated-stop-motion-short-film-by-catya-plate/|title=Trailer for "The Reading", an award-winning animated stop-motion short film by Catya Plate|website=seattlepalate.com|access-date=2019-03-20}} Her second stop-motion animated short film Hanging By A Thread, premiered at Nevada City Film Festival, where it won the Best Animated Short.{{Cite web|url=http://www.nevadacityfilmfestival.com/files/NCFF_2013_Program.pdf|title=2013 PROGRAM GUIDE|website=nevadacityfilmfestival.com|access-date=2019-03-20}} It also won Spirit Award for Animation at the Brooklyn Film Festival.{{Cite web|url=https://www.vimooz.com/2017/06/03/meeting-macguffin-catya-plate-2017-brooklyn-film-festival/|title=Catya Plate Returns to 2017 Brooklyn Film Festival with World Premiere of MEETING MACGUFFIN |website=vimooz.com|date=4 June 2017 |access-date=2019-03-20}} 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,{{cn|date=November 2024}} Shorts Production Design Award at the Other Worlds Austin Festival,{{cn|date=November 2024}} Merit Award at the Indie Fest, Best Animated Film at the Seattle True Independent Film Festival{{cn|date=November 2024}} and Jury Citation Award for Best Animation at the Black Maria Film Festival.{{Cite web|url=http://www.film-festival.org/Vortex_WINNERS17.php|title=2017 FLICKERS' VORTEX SCI-FI, FANTASY & HORROR FILM FESTIVAL|website=film-festival.org|access-date=2019-03-20}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.otherworldsaustin.com/2017-awards|title=OWA Award Winners|website=otherworldsaustin.com|access-date=2019-03-20}}{{Cite web|url=http://theindiefest.com/past-winners/awards-of-merit-july-2017/|title=Awards of Merit July 2017|website=theindiefest.com|access-date=2019-03-20}}{{Cite web|url=http://trueindependent.org/stiff/archives/2017-program/|title=2017 Award Winners (Full Program Below)|website=trueindependent.org|access-date=2019-03-20}}

Selected exhibitions

2018 Solo - Meeting MacGuffin, Torrance Art Museum{{Cite web|url=http://www.torranceartmuseum.com/meeting-macguffin|title=MEETING MACGUFFIN|website=torranceartmuseum.com|access-date=2019-03-20}}
2015 Group - The Drawing Center, OPEN SESSIONS GROUP 5{{Cite web|url=http://www.drawingcenter.org/en/drawingcenter/5/exhibitions/14/past/1131/open-sessions-5/|title=Open Sessions 5 |website=drawingcenter.org|access-date=2019-03-20}}
2014 Solo - A New Brave New World, Indianapolis Art Center{{Cite web|url=https://mfavisualnarrative.sva.edu/people/mentors/catya-plate/|title="A New Brave New World", 2015, Solo Exhibition|website=mfavisualnarrative.sva.edu|access-date=2019-03-20}}
2010 Solo - Clothespin Tarot, Center for Book Arts{{Cite web|url=https://centerforbookarts.org/event/catya-plate-clothespin-tarot/|title=Catya Plate: Clothespin Tarot|website=centerforbookarts.org|access-date=2019-03-20}}
2009 Solo - Tiny Messengers, Ў Gallery{{Cite web|url=http://calendar.artcat.com/exhibits/9205|title=Catya Plate, Tiny Messengers|website=calendar.artcat.com|access-date=2019-03-20}}
2003 Solo - Close Up, Galerie Elten & Elten{{Cite web|url=http://www.mve.ch/plate/presse.html|title=CATYA PLATE - CLOSE UP|website=mve.ch|access-date=2019-03-20}}
2003 Solo - Extra Sensory Perception, Robert V. Fullerton Art Museum

Filmography

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Year !Film !Writer !Director !Producer !Notes
2017 \| Meeting MacGuffin \| style="text-align:center;"\| {{y}} \| style="text-align:center;"\| {{y}} \| style="text-align:center;"\| {{y}} \|
2016 \| Speaking of Freaks \| style="text-align:center;"\| {{n}} \| style="text-align:center;"\| {{n}} \| style="text-align:center;"\| {{y}} \|
2013 \| Hanging by a Thread \| style="text-align:center;"\| {{y}} \| style="text-align:center;"\| {{y}} \| style="text-align:center;"\| {{y}} \|
2011 \| The Reading \| style="text-align:center;"\| {{y}} \| style="text-align:center;"\| {{y}} \| style="text-align:center;"\| {{y}} \|

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2017

| Meeting MacGuffin

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2016

| Speaking of Freaks