Tomás Pichardo-Espaillat
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- March 2, 1987
- Birthplace
- 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).
Filmography
Where the Bees Sleep TBA
Director, Writer
Out of Date Defences 2026
Director
When did we start using passports? 2026
Director
Olivia & the Clouds 2025
Director, Writer, Art Direction, Director of Photography, Editor
Roots 2024
Supervising Animation Director
One of the most dangerous men in American history 2023
Director
The Rebel Radio that brought down a war criminal 2022
Storyboard Artist, Director
Moreno Mío 2022
Director
When the Sun 2021
Director
Me Asomé al Sol 2021
Director
Can Love and Independence Coexist? 2021
Storyboard Artist, Animation, Director
How to Find Creative Work 2021
Director
The Secret Society of the Great Dismal Swamp 2021
Director, Storyboard Artist
What really happened during the Attica Prison Rebellion 2021
Director, Animation, Storyboard Artist
Las Mariposas: How Three Sisters defied a Dictator 2021
Director
The Rise and Fall of History's First Empire 2020
Director, Storyboard Artist
The last chief of the Comanches and the fall of an empire 2020
Director, Storyboard Artist
El Club de Chichiguas 2020
Actor, Director, Screenplay, Animation Director, Editor, Producer
El Regreso al Planeta M 2020
as Niño, Screenplay, Editor, Animation Director, Director, Producer
Asterisco 2020
Director, Writer
The life, legacy & assassination of an African revolutionary 2020
Director, Storyboard Artist
Short Stories About Loneliness 2019
Director
Divine Comedy 2019
Animation, Storyboard Artist, Director
The Aztec myth of the unlikeliest sun god 2019
Animation, Storyboard Artist, Director
Harvey Milk's radical vision of equality 2019
Animation, Director, Storyboard Artist
Why Should You Read Sci-fi Superstar Octavia E. Butler? 2019
Director, Animation, Storyboard Artist
Midnight's Children 2019
Director, Storyboard Artist, Animation, Editor
Why You'll Never Find the Right Person 2019
Director
When Someone we love has died 2018
Director
Waiting for Godot 2018
Director, Storyboard Artist, Animation
Hypervigilance 2018
Director
The psychology of post-traumatic stress disorder 2018
Storyboard Artist, Director
The 1937 Haitian Massacre 2018
Director, Storyboard Artist
You Are Not What You Earn 2017
Director
How Can I Be More Normal? 2017
Director
El Camino Interminable 2017
Director, Screenplay
How to Travel in your Mind 2017
Director
Why We Go Cold on Our Partners 2016
Director
The Neuroscience of Imagination 2016
Animation, Director, Storyboard Artist
Why It Is So Hard to Live in the Present? 2016
Director, Editor, Animation Director, Producer
Is graffiti art? Or vandalism? 2016
Storyboard Artist, Animation, Director
What is abstract expressionism? 2016
Animation, Storyboard Artist, Director
The science of skin color 2016
Director, Animation, Storyboard Artist
El Vendedor de Muchachas de Cartón 2016
Director, Screenplay
Who was Confucius? 2015
Director, Storyboard Artist, Animation
Solid, liquid, gas and ... plasma? 2015
Animation, Storyboard Artist, Director
Malvao 2015
Editor, Director, Screenplay, Producer, Animation Director
Cumbia de Piedra 2014
Director, Screenplay, Animation Director, Editor
Floating Islands 2013
Actor, Director, Screenplay, Editor, Animation Director
Dante 2013
Screenplay, Director, Director of Photography, Producer, Editor
AstroLunar 2012
Screenplay, Producer, Cinematography, Director
Línea Confín 2011
as Ing. Badessi, Animation Director, Director, Editor, Screenplay, Producer
Credits from TMDB.