Cara Yeates
- Producer
- Director
- Actress
Cara Yeates is a Canadian filmmaker based in New York. Her award-winning narrative short, "Gone Before Your Eyes," is available on PBS and has received ten awards, including winning the Leiden International Film Festival's Extraordinary Shorts Competition. She produced "The New Yorker Theater: A Talbot Legacy," a short documentary that has screened at Lincoln Center and major festivals, including DOC NYC, Il Cinema Ritrovato, DC/DOX, Woodstock, Santa Barbara, and the Hamptons International Film Festivals, as well as "Stut," a pilot that was a part of the Tribeca Film Festival.
Yeates is a partner at Trigger Creative, a boutique production company known for crafting globally produced content for clients such as Morgan Stanley, Michelob, and Ford.
She worked with Film at Lincoln Center and the New York Film Festival as the filmmaker liaison, managing talent for the world premieres of films by Steven Spielberg, Paul Thomas Anderson, David Fincher, and Spike Jonze. She also currently serves on the board of Upstate Women in Film.
Yeates began her creative journey in the theatre. She wrote and toured four critically acclaimed, award-winning one-woman shows across North America. Her work was lauded as "blistering," "a tour de force," and "irresistible."
Yeates is a partner at Trigger Creative, a boutique production company known for crafting globally produced content for clients such as Morgan Stanley, Michelob, and Ford.
She worked with Film at Lincoln Center and the New York Film Festival as the filmmaker liaison, managing talent for the world premieres of films by Steven Spielberg, Paul Thomas Anderson, David Fincher, and Spike Jonze. She also currently serves on the board of Upstate Women in Film.
Yeates began her creative journey in the theatre. She wrote and toured four critically acclaimed, award-winning one-woman shows across North America. Her work was lauded as "blistering," "a tour de force," and "irresistible."
