Person

Tomás Pichardo-Espaillat

Directing · Born 1987-03-02 · 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).

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  Divine Comedy

  Animation

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  Roots

  Supervising Animation Director

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  The Rebel Radio that brought down a war criminal

  Storyboard Artist

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  Dante

  Director of Photography

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  Línea Confín

  Ing. Badessi

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  Floating Islands

  2013

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  Olivia & the Clouds

  Director

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  Malvao

  Editor

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  AstroLunar

  Director

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  Asterisco

  Director

• 2026When did we start using passports?Director
• 2025Olivia & the CloudsDirector
• 2024RootsSupervising Animation Director
• 2023One of the most dangerous men in American historyDirector
• 2022The Rebel Radio that brought down a war criminalStoryboard Artist
• 2021Can Love and Independence Coexist?Animation
• 2021The Secret Society of the Great Dismal SwampDirector
• 2021What really happened during the Attica Prison RebellionDirector
• 2021Las Mariposas: How Three Sisters defied a DictatorDirector
• 2020The Rise and Fall of History's First EmpireDirector
• 2020The last chief of the Comanches and the fall of an empireDirector
• 2020El Club de Chichiguas
• 2020El Regreso al Planeta MNiño
• 2020AsteriscoDirector
• 2020The life, legacy & assassination of an African revolutionaryStoryboard Artist
• 2019Short Stories About LonelinessDirector
• 2019Divine ComedyAnimation
• 2019The Aztec myth of the unlikeliest sun godStoryboard Artist
• 2019Harvey Milk's radical vision of equalityDirector
• 2019Why Should You Read Sci-fi Superstar Octavia E. Butler?Director
• 2019Midnight's ChildrenDirector
• 2018Waiting for GodotStoryboard Artist
• 2018The psychology of post-traumatic stress disorderStoryboard Artist
• 2018The 1937 Haitian MassacreDirector
• 2017El Camino InterminableScreenplay
• 2016The Neuroscience of ImaginationStoryboard Artist
• 2016Why It Is So Hard to Live in the Present?Director
• 2016Is graffiti art? Or vandalism?Storyboard Artist
• 2016What is abstract expressionism?Animation
• 2016The science of skin colorDirector
• 2016El Vendedor de Muchachas de CartónDirector
• 2015Who was Confucius?Director
• 2015Solid, liquid, gas and ... plasma?Storyboard Artist
• 2015MalvaoEditor
• 2014Cumbia de PiedraDirector
• 2013Floating Islands
• 2013DanteDirector of Photography
• 2012AstroLunarDirector
• 2011Línea ConfínIng. Badessi
• —Where the Bees SleepDirector