Tomás Pichardo-Espaillat

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).

Cast

El Club de Chichiguas

Unknown

Línea Confín

Ing. Badessi

Floating Islands

Unknown

El Regreso al Planeta M

Niño

Crew

Dante

Director, Screenplay, Director of Photography, Producer, Editor

Midnight's Children

Director, Storyboard Artist, Animation, Editor

El Club de Chichiguas

Director, Screenplay, Producer, Editor, Animation Director

Las Mariposas: How Three Sisters defied a Dictator

Director

The 1937 Haitian Massacre

Director, Storyboard Artist

What really happened during the Attica Prison Rebellion

Director, Storyboard Artist, Animation

The last chief of the Comanches and the fall of an empire

Director, Storyboard Artist

Asterisco

Director, Writer

Short Stories About Loneliness

Director

The Rebel Radio that brought down a war criminal

Storyboard Artist, Director

Línea Confín

Director, Screenplay, Producer, Editor, Animation Director

AstroLunar

Director, Screenplay, Producer, Cinematography

Floating Islands

Director, Screenplay, Editor, Animation Director

Cumbia de Piedra

Director, Screenplay, Animation Director, Editor

Malvao

Director, Screenplay, Producer, Editor, Animation Director

Solid, liquid, gas and ... plasma?

Director, Storyboard Artist, Animation

Who was Confucius?

Director, Storyboard Artist, Animation

El Vendedor de Muchachas de Cartón

Director, Screenplay

The science of skin color

Director, Animation, Storyboard Artist

What is abstract expressionism?

Director, Storyboard Artist, Animation

Is graffiti art? Or vandalism?

Director, Storyboard Artist, Animation

The Neuroscience of Imagination

Director, Storyboard Artist, Animation

El Camino Interminable

Director, Screenplay

The psychology of post-traumatic stress disorder

Director, Storyboard Artist

Waiting for Godot

Director, Storyboard Artist, Animation

Why Should You Read Sci-fi Superstar Octavia E. Butler?

Director, Storyboard Artist, Animation

Harvey Milk's radical vision of equality

Director, Storyboard Artist, Animation

The Aztec myth of the unlikeliest sun god

Director, Storyboard Artist, Animation

Divine Comedy

Director, Storyboard Artist, Animation

The life, legacy & assassination of an African revolutionary

Director, Storyboard Artist

El Regreso al Planeta M

Director, Screenplay, Producer, Editor, Animation Director

The Rise and Fall of History's First Empire

Director, Storyboard Artist

The Secret Society of the Great Dismal Swamp

Director, Storyboard Artist

Can Love and Independence Coexist?

Director, Storyboard Artist, Animation

One of the most dangerous men in American history

Director

Olivia & the Clouds

Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Art Direction

Roots

Supervising Animation Director

Why It Is So Hard to Live in the Present?

Director, Editor, Animation Director, Producer