Brooklyn-based artist and filmmaker Catya Plate is heading to Los Angeles to screen the highly anticipated third short from her award-winning environmental trilogy Las Nogas for a special screening event presented by the Oscar-qualifying HollyShorts film festival.
Plate will be joined by Misty Lee (voice of Alma) and Clarissa Jacobson (voice of Queen Bee) for a Q&A after the in-person screening. The film and discussion will take place on January 31 at 7 p.m. at the TLC Chinese 6 Theatres; tickets are on sale now.
Following Meeting MacGuffin (2017) and Hanging by a Thread (2013), Las Nogas completes the eco-thriller stop-motion trilogy and feature film proof of concept crafted by Plate.
Five-hundred years into the future, the Earth is a dry wasteland destroyed by humans. Doctor Alma, a fluffy, brilliant Vulkeet (a cross between a parakeet and vulture) who drives a Vespa, must cure the only creatures left who can save the world by bringing back the rain – the bizarre and loveable Homeys who have fallen ill with a mysterious sickness.
In April 2023, Plate received a NYC Women’s Fund Grant Award from the NYC Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment (MOME) and New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) for Las Nogas. Since the film’s launch in the festival circuit in July, it has won the Green Planet Award at the Oscar-qualifying Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival (World Premiere); Best Animated Film at Fano International Film Festival (Italy Premiere) and the Jury Prize for Best Short at the Green Film Festival of San Francisco.
“The attention to detail and painstaking time it took to create this wonderful little short for our viewing pleasure is amazing, a gift with a message not to overlook or disregard, but watch carefully before it’s all over.”
— Jason Wolos, SF Short Film Festival / SF Green Film Fest Programmer.
Originally from Barcelona, Spain and raised in Germany, Plate came to New York through a Fulbright Scholarship for post-graduate studies at the School of Visual Arts. Her projects are in public and private collections like the Brooklyn Museum and New York Public Library/Print Collection. Articles and reviews of Plate’s films and exhibitions appeared in The New York Times, The Independent and others. In 2009 she created Clothespin Freak Productions to bring her visions and characters to life through award-winning stop-motion animation films.
Tickets for the Las Nogas special screening are available through the HollyShorts Monthly FilmFreeway page.
Films will go virtually live on bitpixtv.com on Thursday, February 1 at 12 midnight (after the in-person screening at the TLC Chinese 6 Theatres) and run through Sunday, February 4.
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