Tomás Pichardo-Espaillat
Known for Directing
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
Waiting for Godot
2018
Director
Olivia & the Clouds
2025
Director
Olivia & the Clouds
2025
Writer
Cumbia de Piedra
2014
Director
Cumbia de Piedra
2014
Screenplay
The Secret Society of the Great Dismal Swamp
2021
Director
Short Stories About Loneliness
2019
Director
One of the most dangerous men in American history
2023
Director
Midnight's Children
2019
Director
Why Should You Read Sci-fi Superstar Octavia E. Butler?
2019
Director
El Club de Chichiguas
2020
El Club de Chichiguas
2020
Director
El Club de Chichiguas
2020
Screenplay
El Club de Chichiguas
2020
Producer
The last chief of the Comanches and the fall of an empire
2020
Director
The Rebel Radio that brought down a war criminal
2022
Director
The Neuroscience of Imagination
2016
Director
The Rise and Fall of History's First Empire
2020
Director
Can Love and Independence Coexist?
2021
Director
Solid, liquid, gas and ... plasma?
2015
Director