Tommy Pallotta
Born: 1968-05-25 in Houston, Texas, USA
Known For: Production
Biography
Tommy Pallotta is a storyteller who creatively blends technology with filmmaking, animation, and interactivity. Microsoft Research recognized his penchant for innovation where he led a research team to create and design interactive, animated storytelling experiences. Pallotta also directed the first machinima music video, In the Waiting Line, and the rotoscoped MTV Breakthrough video Destiny, both for the band Zero 7. He has produced several short animated films that garnered numerous awards, including Snack and Drink, which is now part of a permanent collection in the New York Museum of Modern Art. Tommy first connected Richard Linklater with animation when he produced the award-winning feature film Waking Life. He followed up with Philip K. Dick’s A Scanner Darkly, starring Keanu Reeves and Robert Downey Jr. He then directed the Emmy-nominated transmedia thriller, Collapsus. Most recently he co-directed the feature documentary/ animation hybrid: Last Hijack. The interactive companion of Last Hijack won an International Digital Emmy Award.
Filmography
2023
- The Last Ecstatic Days ... (Executive Producer)
2022
- Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood ... (Producer)
2019
- Undone ... (Executive Producer)
2018
- More Human Than Human as Self
2016
- Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny as Self - Friend
- Snack And Drink ... (Producer)
2014
- Last Hijack ... (Director)
2009
- American Prince as Self - Interviewer
2006
- A Scanner Darkly ... (Producer)
- One Summer in Austin: The Story of Filming 'A Scanner Darkly' as Self
- The Weight of the Line: Animation Tales as Self
2001
- Waking Life ... (Producer)
- In the Bathtub of the World as Self
- Tape ... (Technical Supervisor)
1991
- Slacker as Looking for Missing Friend