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).

Crew

Dante
Director of Photography, Director, Screenplay, Producer, Editor
El Club de Chichiguas
Screenplay, Director, Editor, Animation Director, Producer
The 1937 Haitian Massacre
Director, Storyboard Artist
Las Mariposas: How Three Sisters defied a Dictator
Director
Midnight's Children
Director, Animation, Storyboard Artist, Editor
What really happened during the Attica Prison Rebellion
Director, Animation, Storyboard Artist
The last chief of the Comanches and the fall of an empire
Director, Storyboard Artist
Short Stories About Loneliness
Director
Asterisco
Director, Writer
The Rebel Radio that brought down a war criminal
Storyboard Artist, Director
Línea Confín
Producer, Screenplay, Editor, Animation Director, Director
AstroLunar
Director, Screenplay, Cinematography, Producer
Malvao
Editor, Producer, Animation Director, Director, Screenplay
Solid, liquid, gas and ... plasma?
Storyboard Artist, Director, Animation
Floating Islands
Screenplay, Director, Editor, Animation Director
Cumbia de Piedra
Director, Screenplay, Animation Director, Editor
El Vendedor de Muchachas de Cartón
Director, Screenplay
The science of skin color
Director, Animation, Storyboard Artist
Who was Confucius?
Director, Animation, Storyboard Artist
Is graffiti art? Or vandalism?
Storyboard Artist, Animation, Director
What is abstract expressionism?
Animation, Director, Storyboard Artist
The Neuroscience of Imagination
Storyboard Artist, Director, Animation
The psychology of post-traumatic stress disorder
Storyboard Artist, Director
El Camino Interminable
Screenplay, Director
Waiting for Godot
Storyboard Artist, Director, Animation
The Aztec myth of the unlikeliest sun god
Storyboard Artist, Director, Animation
Why Should You Read Sci-fi Superstar Octavia E. Butler?
Director, Animation, Storyboard Artist
Harvey Milk's radical vision of equality
Director, Storyboard Artist, Animation
Divine Comedy
Animation, Storyboard Artist, Director
The life, legacy & assassination of an African revolutionary
Storyboard Artist, Director
El Regreso al Planeta M
Producer, Editor, Director, Screenplay, Animation Director
The Rise and Fall of History's First Empire
Director, Storyboard Artist
Can Love and Independence Coexist?
Animation, Storyboard Artist, Director
The Secret Society of the Great Dismal Swamp
Director, Storyboard Artist
One of the most dangerous men in American history
Director
Olivia & the Clouds
Director, Writer, Art Direction, Director of Photography
Roots
Supervising Animation Director
Why It Is So Hard to Live in the Present?
Director, Editor, Animation Director, Producer