Catya Plate
- Writer
- Producer
- Director
Catya Plate - born in Barcelona, Spain, and raised in Germany - is an award-winning independent filmmaker, animator, artist, producer, and writer who came to New York in 1987 through a Fulbright Scholarship for post-graduate studies at School of Visual Arts.
In 2009 she founded Clothespin Freak Productions to bring her characters to life through handcrafted stop-motion animation films. Known for "Cultivating Innovative Feminist Socio-Environmental Stop-Motion Animation" Catya has produced four award-winning short films The Reading (2010) and the ecological shorts trilogy Hanging By A Thread (2013), Meeting MacGuffin (2017) and Las Nogas (2023).
Her projects have been reviewed and featured in The New York Times, Animation World Network, Animation Magazine and Indiewire, among others. Her films have screened world wide at film festivals and Museums like Flicker's Rhode Island International Film Festival, St. Louis International Film Festival, New Hampshire Film Festival, Cucalorus, Animac, Fullerton Art Museum and The Brooklyn Museum. The World Premiere of 'Las Nogas' took place in 2023 at the Oscar-qualifying Flicker's Rhode Island International Film Festival where it won the Grand Prize for Best Environmental Film.
She is currently collaborating with award-winning producer and filmmaker Nathan Sellers on her first stop-motion feature 'Alma.'
In 2023 she was awarded a NYC Women's Fund Grant by the NYC Mayor's Office of Media & Entertainment (MOME) and New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) for her stop-motion film 'Las Nogas' which serves as proof-of-concept short and first act for her upcoming stop-motion feature 'Alma'. In 2024 she was a Finalist with 'Alma' for the Lynn Shelton "Of A Certain Age" Grant Finalist with '- sponsored by the Northwest Film Forum and Duplass Brothers Productions - and received an Honorable Mention from the Award Selection Committee comprised of Jennifer Phang, Sarah Adina Smith and Avril Z. Speaks.
In addition to screening her films and exhibiting her art projects she's been an active speaker on film festival panels, an invited filmmaker to animation industry conferences, a juror for film festivals and an educator of stop motion animation workshops at universities.
In 2009 she founded Clothespin Freak Productions to bring her characters to life through handcrafted stop-motion animation films. Known for "Cultivating Innovative Feminist Socio-Environmental Stop-Motion Animation" Catya has produced four award-winning short films The Reading (2010) and the ecological shorts trilogy Hanging By A Thread (2013), Meeting MacGuffin (2017) and Las Nogas (2023).
Her projects have been reviewed and featured in The New York Times, Animation World Network, Animation Magazine and Indiewire, among others. Her films have screened world wide at film festivals and Museums like Flicker's Rhode Island International Film Festival, St. Louis International Film Festival, New Hampshire Film Festival, Cucalorus, Animac, Fullerton Art Museum and The Brooklyn Museum. The World Premiere of 'Las Nogas' took place in 2023 at the Oscar-qualifying Flicker's Rhode Island International Film Festival where it won the Grand Prize for Best Environmental Film.
She is currently collaborating with award-winning producer and filmmaker Nathan Sellers on her first stop-motion feature 'Alma.'
In 2023 she was awarded a NYC Women's Fund Grant by the NYC Mayor's Office of Media & Entertainment (MOME) and New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) for her stop-motion film 'Las Nogas' which serves as proof-of-concept short and first act for her upcoming stop-motion feature 'Alma'. In 2024 she was a Finalist with 'Alma' for the Lynn Shelton "Of A Certain Age" Grant Finalist with '- sponsored by the Northwest Film Forum and Duplass Brothers Productions - and received an Honorable Mention from the Award Selection Committee comprised of Jennifer Phang, Sarah Adina Smith and Avril Z. Speaks.
In addition to screening her films and exhibiting her art projects she's been an active speaker on film festival panels, an invited filmmaker to animation industry conferences, a juror for film festivals and an educator of stop motion animation workshops at universities.
