Director

Catya Plate

Writing

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Directed movies: 3Directed series: 0All crew credits: 4

TMDB ID: 1794371

IMDb ID: nm4033264

Known for: Writing

Place of birth: Barcelona, Spain

Gender: Female

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 2011 - 2023

Years active: 13

Wikidata: Q62390573

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Director (3)Producer (1)

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Biography

CATYA PLATE -Spanish born/German multi-media artist, animator, director, producer, writer - came to New York in 1987 through a Fulbright Scholarship to study at the School of Visual Arts. Her work has been shown since the mid-1980's at Museums and Galleries like the Whitney Museum at Altria and Adam Baumgold Gallery and is included in collections such as The Brooklyn Museum and New York Library/Print Collection. Reviews have appeared in The New York Times, among others. In 2009 she created Clothespin Freak Productions to bring her “Clothespin Freaks” characters to life through handcrafted award-winning stop-motion animation films. In April 2023, she received a prestigious NYC Women's Fund Grant Award by New York Foundation for the Arts for Las Nogas which premiered at the Oscar-qualifying Rhode Island International Film Festival and won the Grand Prize for Best Environmental Film.

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