Tomás Pichardo-Espaillat
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).
Known for
Directing39
movieOlivia & the Clouds
2025
Director
movieEl Club de Chichiguas
2020
Director
movieEl Regreso al Planeta M
2020
Director
movieAsterisco
2020
Director
movieDivine Comedy
2019
Director
movieMidnight's Children
2019
Director
movieWaiting for Godot
2018
Director
movieEl Camino Interminable
2017
Director
movieWho was Confucius?
2015
Director
movieMalvao
2015
Director
movieCumbia de Piedra
2014
Director
movieFloating Islands
2013
Director
movieDante
2013
Director
movieAstroLunar
2012
Director
movieLínea Confín
2011
Director
movieWhere the Bees Sleep
Director
Art22
movieOlivia & the Clouds
2025
Art Direction
movieThe Rebel Radio that brought down a war criminal
2022
Storyboard Artist
movieCan Love and Independence Coexist?
2021
Storyboard Artist
movieThe Secret Society of the Great Dismal Swamp
2021
Storyboard Artist
movieWhat really happened during the Attica Prison Rebellion
2021
Storyboard Artist
movieThe Rise and Fall of History's First Empire
2020
Storyboard Artist
movieThe last chief of the Comanches and the fall of an empire
2020
Storyboard Artist
movieDivine Comedy
2019
Storyboard Artist
movieThe Aztec myth of the unlikeliest sun god
2019
Storyboard Artist
movieHarvey Milk's radical vision of equality
2019
Storyboard Artist
movieWhy Should You Read Sci-fi Superstar Octavia E. Butler?
2019
Storyboard Artist
movieMidnight's Children
2019
Storyboard Artist
movieWaiting for Godot
2018
Storyboard Artist
movieThe psychology of post-traumatic stress disorder
2018
Storyboard Artist
movieThe 1937 Haitian Massacre
2018
Storyboard Artist
movieThe Neuroscience of Imagination
2016
Storyboard Artist
movieIs graffiti art? Or vandalism?
2016
Storyboard Artist
movieWhat is abstract expressionism?
2016
Storyboard Artist
movieThe science of skin color
2016
Storyboard Artist
movieWho was Confucius?
2015
Storyboard Artist
movieSolid, liquid, gas and ... plasma?
2015
Storyboard Artist
Visual Effects22
movieRoots
2024
Supervising Animation Director
movieEl Club de Chichiguas
2020
Animation Director
movieEl Regreso al Planeta M
2020
Animation Director
movieDivine Comedy
2019
Animation
movieMidnight's Children
2019
Animation
movieWaiting for Godot
2018
Animation
movieWhy It Is So Hard to Live in the Present?
2016
Animation Director
movieThe science of skin color
2016
Animation
movieWho was Confucius?
2015
Animation
movieMalvao
2015
Animation Director
movieCumbia de Piedra
2014
Animation Director
movieFloating Islands
2013
Animation Director
movieLínea Confín
2011
Animation Director
Writing13
movieEl Club de Chichiguas
2020
Screenplay
movieEl Regreso al Planeta M
2020
Screenplay
movieAsterisco
2020
Writer
movieEl Camino Interminable
2017
Screenplay
movieMalvao
2015
Screenplay
movieCumbia de Piedra
2014
Screenplay
movieFloating Islands
2013
Screenplay
movieDante
2013
Screenplay
movieAstroLunar
2012
Screenplay
movieLínea Confín
2011
Screenplay
Editing10
Production7
movieEl Club de Chichiguas
2020
Producer
movieEl Regreso al Planeta M
2020
Producer
movieMalvao
2015
Producer
movieDante
2013
Producer
movieAstroLunar
2012
Producer
movieLínea Confín
2011
Producer
Acting4
Camera2
movieOlivia & the Clouds
2025
Director of Photography
movieDante
2013
Director of Photography
Crew1
movieAstroLunar
2012
Cinematography