Directing
Tomás Pichardo-Espaillat
ES, EN cinema · 48 credits
Born
2 March 1987 (age 39)
Birthplace
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Also known as Tomatico
Tomás Pichardo-Espaillat (b. 1987, Santo Domingo) is a storyteller from the Dominican Republic. Working primarily on video, animation and drawing. He was granted a full year scholarship at Fabrica, Benetton's Design Research center, in Treviso, Italy in 2013. Tomás received his BFA in Art and Media at Parsons, the New School of Design in 2010. And his AA degree in fine arts, at Altos de Chavón, in 2008. Pichardo's work has hints of magic realism. Evoking the colorful, surreal and sometimes disorienting experience of growing up in the Caribbean. His world is personal and intimate, with characters full of colors and textures, drawn into situations outside of their comfort zone. Recent solo exhibitions include CasaQuien (DR), Centro de la Imagen (DR) and Fabrica Features (Lisbon, Portugal). And he has had work included in group exhibitions at the Triennale di Milano (Italy), Museum for Contemporary Art, (México) and Annecy Animation Film Festival (France).
Known for
Filmography
Where the Bees Sleep
Director, Writer
Olivia & the Clouds
Director, Writer, Art Direction, Director of Photography, Editor
Roots
Supervising Animation Director
The Rebel Radio that brought down a war criminal
Storyboard Artist, Director
What really happened during the Attica Prison Rebellion
Director, Animation, Storyboard Artist
Can Love and Independence Coexist?
Storyboard Artist, Animation, Director
The Secret Society of the Great Dismal Swamp
Director, Storyboard Artist
El Club de Chichiguas
Actor, Director, Screenplay, Animation Director, Editor, Producer
El Regreso al Planeta M
as Niño, Screenplay, Editor, Animation Director, Director, Producer
The last chief of the Comanches and the fall of an empire
Director, Storyboard Artist
Asterisco
Director, Writer
The life, legacy & assassination of an African revolutionary
Director, Storyboard Artist
The Rise and Fall of History's First Empire
Director, Storyboard Artist
Midnight's Children
Director, Storyboard Artist, Animation, Editor
Why Should You Read Sci-fi Superstar Octavia E. Butler?
Director, Animation, Storyboard Artist
Harvey Milk's radical vision of equality
Animation, Director, Storyboard Artist
The Aztec myth of the unlikeliest sun god
Animation, Storyboard Artist, Director
Divine Comedy
Animation, Storyboard Artist, Director
The 1937 Haitian Massacre
Director, Storyboard Artist
The psychology of post-traumatic stress disorder
Storyboard Artist, Director
Waiting for Godot
Director, Storyboard Artist, Animation
Hypervigilance
Director
El Camino Interminable
Director, Screenplay
El Vendedor de Muchachas de Cartón
Director, Screenplay
The science of skin color
Director, Animation, Storyboard Artist
Is graffiti art? Or vandalism?
Storyboard Artist, Animation, Director
What is abstract expressionism?
Animation, Storyboard Artist, Director
The Neuroscience of Imagination
Animation, Director, Storyboard Artist
Why It Is So Hard to Live in the Present?
Director, Editor, Animation Director, Producer
Malvao
Editor, Director, Screenplay, Producer, Animation Director
Solid, liquid, gas and ... plasma?
Animation, Storyboard Artist, Director
Who was Confucius?
Director, Storyboard Artist, Animation
Cumbia de Piedra
Director, Screenplay, Animation Director, Editor
Floating Islands
Actor, Director, Screenplay, Editor, Animation Director
Dante
Screenplay, Director, Director of Photography, Producer, Editor
AstroLunar
Screenplay, Producer, Cinematography, Director
Línea Confín
as Ing. Badessi, Animation Director, Director, Editor, Screenplay, Producer