NYC Mayor’s Workplace of Media and Leisure and New York Basis for the Arts named Catya Plate, the 2023 NYC Girls’s Fund recipient for her stop-motion movie Las Nogas. The Fund is an initiative that addresses the underrepresentation of girls and women-identifying artists in movie, tv, theatre, and music.
Initially from Barcelona, Spain, and raised in Germany, Plate got here to New York in 1987 by a Fulbright Scholarship for post-graduate research on the Faculty of Visible Arts. She has been exhibiting internationally for the reason that mid-Eighties.
In 2009, Plate launched Clothespin Freak Productions to carry her “Clothespin Freaks” characters to life by stop-motion animated shorts. The corporate has produced 4 award-winning shorts: The Studying (2010) and the eco-thrilling shorts trilogy Hanging by A Thread (2013), Assembly MacGuffin (2017), and Las Nogas (2023) – the newest might be hitting the pageant circuit this yr.
Take a look at the trailer for Las Nogas:
Debbie Diamond Sarto is information editor at Animation World Community.
