Tomás Pichardo-Espaillat
Born: 1987-03-02 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Known For: Directing
Biography
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).
Filmography
2026
- When did we start using passports? ... (Director)
2025
- Olivia & the Clouds ... (Director)
2024
- Roots ... (Supervising Animation Director)
2023
- One of the most dangerous men in American history ... (Director)
2022
- The Rebel Radio that brought down a war criminal ... (Storyboard Artist)
2021
- What really happened during the Attica Prison Rebellion ... (Director)
- The Secret Society of the Great Dismal Swamp ... (Director)
- Las Mariposas: How Three Sisters defied a Dictator ... (Director)
- Can Love and Independence Coexist? ... (Director)
2020
- Asterisco ... (Director)
- The Rise and Fall of History's First Empire ... (Director)
- El Regreso al Planeta M as Niño
- El Club de Chichiguas
- The last chief of the Comanches and the fall of an empire ... (Director)
- The life, legacy & assassination of an African revolutionary ... (Director)
2019
- Divine Comedy ... (Director)
- Harvey Milk's radical vision of equality ... (Director)
- Why Should You Read Sci-fi Superstar Octavia E. Butler? ... (Director)
- The Aztec myth of the unlikeliest sun god ... (Director)
- Midnight's Children ... (Director)
- Short Stories About Loneliness ... (Director)
2018
- Waiting for Godot ... (Director)
- The 1937 Haitian Massacre ... (Director)
- The psychology of post-traumatic stress disorder ... (Director)
2017
- El Camino Interminable ... (Director)
2016
- Why It Is So Hard to Live in the Present? ... (Director)
- The Neuroscience of Imagination ... (Director)
- What is abstract expressionism? ... (Director)
- El Vendedor de Muchachas de Cartón ... (Director)
- Is graffiti art? Or vandalism? ... (Director)
- The science of skin color ... (Director)
2015
- Malvao ... (Director)
- Solid, liquid, gas and ... plasma? ... (Director)
- Who was Confucius? ... (Director)
2014
- Cumbia de Piedra ... (Director)
2013
- Dante ... (Director)
- Floating Islands
2012
- AstroLunar ... (Director)
2011
- Línea Confín as Ing. Badessi