Tomás Pichardo-Espaillat
Known For: Directing
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: March 2, 1987 (38 years old)
Place of Birth: Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
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).
2024
2023
2022
2021
Director
Las Mariposas: How Three Sisters defied a Dictator
Director
What really happened during the Attica Prison Rebellion
Animation
What really happened during the Attica Prison Rebellion
Storyboard Artist
What really happened during the Attica Prison Rebellion
Storyboard Artist
Can Love and Independence Coexist?
Director
The Secret Society of the Great Dismal Swamp
Storyboard Artist
The Secret Society of the Great Dismal Swamp
Animation
Can Love and Independence Coexist?
Director
Can Love and Independence Coexist?
2020
Actor
El Club de Chichiguas
Actor Niño
El Regreso al Planeta M
Director
El Club de Chichiguas
Screenplay
El Club de Chichiguas
Director
The last chief of the Comanches and the fall of an empire
Director
Asterisco
Animation Director
El Club de Chichiguas
Editor
El Club de Chichiguas
Producer
El Club de Chichiguas
Storyboard Artist
The last chief of the Comanches and the fall of an empire
Screenplay
El Regreso al Planeta M
Editor
El Regreso al Planeta M
Animation Director
El Regreso al Planeta M
Director
El Regreso al Planeta M
Director
The life, legacy & assassination of an African revolutionary
Storyboard Artist
The life, legacy & assassination of an African revolutionary
Producer
El Regreso al Planeta M
Director
The Rise and Fall of History's First Empire
Storyboard Artist
The Rise and Fall of History's First Empire
Writer
Asterisco
2019
Director
Midnight's Children
Director
Short Stories About Loneliness
Storyboard Artist
Midnight's Children
Animation
Midnight's Children
Editor
Midnight's Children
Director
Why Should You Read Sci-fi Superstar Octavia E. Butler?
Director
The Nutritionist
Animation
Why Should You Read Sci-fi Superstar Octavia E. Butler?
Animation
Harvey Milk's radical vision of equality
Director
Harvey Milk's radical vision of equality
Animation
The Aztec myth of the unlikeliest sun god
Storyboard Artist
Why Should You Read Sci-fi Superstar Octavia E. Butler?
Storyboard Artist
Harvey Milk's radical vision of equality
Storyboard Artist
The Aztec myth of the unlikeliest sun god
Director
The Aztec myth of the unlikeliest sun god
Animation
Divine Comedy
Storyboard Artist
Divine Comedy
Director
Divine Comedy
2018
2017
2016
Director
El Vendedor de Muchachas de Cartón
Director
The science of skin color
Animation
The science of skin color
Screenplay
El Vendedor de Muchachas de Cartón
Storyboard Artist
Is graffiti art? Or vandalism?
Animation
What is abstract expressionism?
Animation
Is graffiti art? Or vandalism?
Storyboard Artist
What is abstract expressionism?
Director
What is abstract expressionism?
Director
Is graffiti art? Or vandalism?
Animation
The Neuroscience of Imagination
Director
The Neuroscience of Imagination
Storyboard Artist
The Neuroscience of Imagination
Storyboard Artist
The science of skin color
Director
Why It Is So Hard to Live in the Present?
Editor
Why It Is So Hard to Live in the Present?
Animation Director
Why It Is So Hard to Live in the Present?
Producer
Why It Is So Hard to Live in the Present?
2015
Editor
Malvao
Animation
Solid, liquid, gas and ... plasma?
Storyboard Artist
Solid, liquid, gas and ... plasma?
Director
Malvao
Screenplay
Malvao
Producer
Malvao
Animation Director
Malvao
Director
Who was Confucius?
Storyboard Artist
Who was Confucius?
Director
Solid, liquid, gas and ... plasma?
Animation
Who was Confucius?
