Catya Plate

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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

Plate was born in Barcelona, Spain and grew up in Cologne, Germany.Template:Cn She attended to Montessori Gymnasium, Koeln, GermanyTemplate:Cn before earning her fine arts degree at the Kölner Werkschulen Template:Cn 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 Template:Cn 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,Template:Cn Shorts Production Design Award at the Other Worlds Austin Festival,Template:Cn Merit Award at the Indie Fest, Best Animated Film at the Seattle True Independent Film Festival Template:Cn and Jury Citation Award for Best Animation at the Black Maria Film Festival.^[12]^[13]^[14]^[15]

Selected exhibitions

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

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

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