CARA YEATES

Cara Yeates is a Canadian filmmaker based in New York. Her narrative short, “Gone Before Your Eyes," is available on PBS. It has been selected for 25 film festivals, including the Woodstock Film Festival, the Mill Valley Film Festival, the Sedona Film Festival, and the Bahamas International Film Festival. "Gone" won four awards, including Best Director of a Narrative Short for Yeates (Queensworld Film Festival), Best of Fest (Hudson Valley Film Festival), Best Narrative Short Film (Buffalo International Film Festival) and the Audience Choice Award (Bowery Film Festival).

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 and has produced projects worldwide with major brands, including Morgan Stanley, Michelob, Ford, and Alexander Wang.

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.

Cara wrote and directed the short film “Gone Before Your Eyes” that has been selected for 25 film festivals including the Woodstock Film Festival, the Mill Valley Film Festival, the Sedona Film Festival and the Lighthouse Film Festival. She won Best Director of a Narrative for "Gone" at the Queens World Film Festival, and she has been nominated for Best Director of a Short Film at the Cindependent Film Festival. It is now available to watch on PBS.

Yeates has directed videos with Alexander Wang, Ford, Bloomingdales, Karlie Kloss, Uber, Verizon, and Morgan Stanley.

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