Acting

Cara Yeates

Cara Yeates is a Canadian filmmaker based in New York where runs the boutique production company Trigger Creative. Cara's short film "Gone Before Your Eyes" will screen on PBS in July. For this film, she won Best Director of a Narrative Short Film at the Queens World Film Festival in New York. "Gone" premiered at the Woodstock Film Festival last fall. It has been selected for eighteen film festivals, including the Mill Valley and Sedona Film Festivals; it also won Best Narrative Short (Buffalo International Film Festival) and the Audience Choice Award (Bowery Film Festival.) Her first short documentary, 'Taking New Steps,' was commissioned by the blockchain platform Breaker. Cara has directed video content with Alexander Wang, Karlie Kloss, Bloomingdales, Morgan Stanley and Gramatik. She started her career in the theater, creating and performing solo shows. She toured four of these one-woman shows across North America, receiving critical success and numerous awards. Her shows were called "blistering," "a tour-de-force," and "irresistible."