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Cara Yeates is a Candian/American filmmaker based in New York. Her narrative short, “Gone Before Your Eyes” will premiere at the Woodstock and Mill Valley Film Festivals this fall.
She started her career in the theater by creating and touring one-woman shows across North America before moving to New York to pursue a career in film.
Upon moving to New York, Cara started working with the Film Society of Lincoln Center MoMA Film on New Directors/New Films and the New York Film Festival.
Cara jumped into her current role as partner and head of production at Trigger Creative in 2015 by producing their first feature film, The Three Metamorphoses.
Over her 20 years in the industry, Cara has worked on a diverse and evolving array of artistic and commercial projects; she has also worn many hats. She loves to be creative, learn new things, and collaborate with innovative people.
Yeates has directed videos with Alexander Wang, Ford, Bloomingdales, Karlie Kloss, Uber, Verizon, and Morgan Stanley.
She will premiere her narrative short “Gone Before Your Eyes” premiered at six film festivals last fall highlights include the Woodstock Film Festival, the Mill Valley Film Festival, winning Best Narrative Short at the Buffalo Film Festival and the Audience Choice Award at the Bowery Film Festival. “Gone” will screen at the Sedona Film Festival this February.
Cara began her foray into directing in 2017 with “Taking New Steps.” This short documentary follows the Dancing Classrooms Youth Dance Company on their trip to Israel to perform at the Karmiel Dance Festival.
Cara Yeates is a partner and head of production at Trigger Creative, a full-service production company that creates content for global brands, including Morgan Stanley, Google, Salesforce, Southwest, Uber, GM, Michelob, and Microsoft.
She started producing her own theater shows at University. Cara moved into film by producing segments for the arts and culture show City Lights on Novus TV. The first short film that Cara produced, Artless, went viral.
Cara jumped into her current role as Head of Production at Trigger by producing their first feature film, The 3 Metamorphosis. Since then, Cara has produced many projects at Trigger including the pilot for Misha Calvert's Strut. Strut was selected for the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival.
In 2017, Cara spent two months in Europe producing a documentary about the music producer Gramatik for the Blockchain Entertainment studio Breaker.
Trigger Creative is a boutique production company run by Cara and her business partner Ryan Kipp. Based in Brooklyn, this small but mighty team produces documentary, narrative, corporate and commercial content. They strive to tell stories that both enrich and illuminate life.
For more information about Trigger Creative please visit - triggercr.com
Cara Yeates has toured four solo shows across North America. She wrote her first one-woman show, Knee Deep in Muck, about the great Canadian past-time of tree planting. Cara toured Knee Deep to seven cities across Canada.
Her second show, Bye Bye Bombay, toured to fifteen cities. Highlights include shows at the Shelter Theater (San Miguel de Allende, MX), The Grand Theater (London, CA), The New York Fringe Festival (New York, USA), and the very first Hollywood Fringe (LA, USA).
Knee Deep in Muck and Bye Bye Bombay received Pick of the Fringe awards, five-star reviews and played to sold-out houses.
Cara next collaborated with Leah Bailly on Some Reckless Abandon. Directed by Lori Triolo, Some Reckless Abandon's performance highlights include Summerworks (Toronto, CA), Uno Festival (Victoria, CA), UNLV (Las Vegas, USA), and the fanaticSalon (LA, USA).
Finally, Cara performed the world premiere of Brandon McLeod's The Big Oops at The Vancouver Cultural Center during the 2010 Olympics. TJ Dawe directed this dark comedy that was performed at the Blank Slate Festival (Whistler, CA) and the Winnipeg and Edmonton Fringe Festivals.
Select Press Quotes:
“GO!” - LA Weekly
“Critics Pick” - Backstage Magazine
“Cara Yeates gave a tour-de-force performance...Yeates is a revelation from the beginning to the end.” - CBC
“With the slightest movement, an eyebrow or a shift of the hand, Cara Yeates goes from impressionable to confident to smarmy to elegant as a host of colorful characters." - Uptown Magazine
"Cara Yeates delivers a blistering energy in her performance." -Vancouver Sun
“In a full-throttle solo performance, Yeates creates several vivid characters, switching between them effortlessly and convincingly.” - Georgia Straight
“Yeates has a spunky comic timing and delivery, but she's even better at physical characterization. That necessary skill of the solo performer, the character change, is handled with grace. She goes from elegant tour guide to smarmy director without blinking.” - Times Colonist