Catya Plate

BIOGRAPHIE

CATYA PLATE Animator/Director/Writer/Producer/Artist Originally from Barcelona, Spain, and raised in Germany, Catya Plate came to New York in 1987 through a Fulbright Scholarship for postgraduate studies at the School of Visual Arts. She has been exhibiting internationally since the mid-1980's and her work is included in public and private collections worldwide, like the Brooklyn Museum and the Museum of Modern Art Library in New York City. Articles and reviews of Plate's films and art have appeared in The New York Times, UK Film Review, The Independent, and many others. In 2009 she created Clothespin Freak Productions to bring her “Clothespin Freaks” characters to life through stop-motion animation short films. Clothespin Freak Productions has produced Speaking of Freaks, The Reading, Hanging By A Thread and Meeting MacGuffin. The latter two are the first installments in a trilogy of ecological thrillers. Catya’s completely handcrafted films combine imagination with humor and hope against the backdrop of a world in peril. In 2019 Indie Shorts Magazine proclaimed Meeting MacGuffin’ Is the Best Stop-Motion, Ecological Thriller Out There! Her short screenplay Las Nogas, last short in the trilogy, won the Grand Prize for Best Animated Script at the 2019 Oscar qualifying Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival Scriptwriting Competition. In February 2023 she completed Las Nogas short film which will serve as proof of concept for her upcoming stop-motion feature Alma's Gift. Lucky to live an artist’s life, trilingual Catya happily resides in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband Todd and her dog Clover. Her website is: http://www.catyaplate.com/

FILMOGRAPHIE