Tomás Pichardo-Espaillat
Personal Info
Known for
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1987-03-02 (38 years old)
Place of Birth
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Tomás Pichardo-Espaillat
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).
Known For
Acting
(2020)
(2020)
El Regreso al Planeta M
as Niño
(2013)
(2011)
Línea Confín
as Ing. Badessi
Crew
Roots
Supervising Animation Director
(2025)
Olivia & the Clouds
Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Art Direction
(2023)
(2022)
The Rebel Radio that brought down a war criminal
Storyboard Artist, Director
(2021)
(2021)
What really happened during the Attica Prison Rebellion
Director, Storyboard Artist, Animation
(2021)
The Secret Society of the Great Dismal Swamp
Director, Storyboard Artist
(2021)
Can Love and Independence Coexist?
Director, Storyboard Artist, Animation
(2020)
El Club de Chichiguas
Director, Screenplay, Producer, Editor, Animation Director
(2020)
The last chief of the Comanches and the fall of an empire
Director, Storyboard Artist
(2020)
Asterisco
Director, Writer
(2020)
The life, legacy & assassination of an African revolutionary
Director, Storyboard Artist
(2020)
El Regreso al Planeta M
Director, Screenplay, Producer, Editor, Animation Director
(2020)
The Rise and Fall of History's First Empire
Director, Storyboard Artist
(2019)
Midnight's Children
Director, Storyboard Artist, Animation, Editor
(2019)
Short Stories About Loneliness
Director
(2019)
Why Should You Read Sci-fi Superstar Octavia E. Butler?
Director, Storyboard Artist, Animation
(2019)
Harvey Milk's radical vision of equality
Director, Storyboard Artist, Animation
(2019)
The Aztec myth of the unlikeliest sun god
Director, Storyboard Artist, Animation
(2019)
Divine Comedy
Director, Storyboard Artist, Animation
(2018)
The 1937 Haitian Massacre
Director, Storyboard Artist
(2018)
The psychology of post-traumatic stress disorder
Director, Storyboard Artist
(2018)
Waiting for Godot
Director, Storyboard Artist, Animation
(2017)
El Camino Interminable
Director, Screenplay
(2016)
El Vendedor de Muchachas de Cartón
Director, Screenplay
(2016)
The science of skin color
Director, Animation, Storyboard Artist
(2016)
What is abstract expressionism?
Director, Storyboard Artist, Animation
(2016)
Is graffiti art? Or vandalism?
Director, Storyboard Artist, Animation
(2016)
The Neuroscience of Imagination
Director, Storyboard Artist, Animation
(2016)
Why It Is So Hard to Live in the Present?
Director, Editor, Animation Director, Producer
(2015)
Malvao
Director, Screenplay, Producer, Editor, Animation Director
(2015)
Solid, liquid, gas and ... plasma?
Director, Storyboard Artist, Animation
(2015)
Who was Confucius?
Director, Storyboard Artist, Animation
(2014)
Cumbia de Piedra
Director, Screenplay, Animation Director, Editor
(2013)
Dante
Director, Screenplay, Director of Photography, Producer, Editor
(2013)
Floating Islands
Director, Screenplay, Editor, Animation Director
(2012)
AstroLunar
Director, Screenplay, Producer, Cinematography
(2011)
Línea Confín
Director, Screenplay, Producer, Editor, Animation Director