Director
Tomás Pichardo-Espaillat
39 years · Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic · 47 films
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).
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Best known for
Olivia & the Clouds
2025 · Director, Writer
Out of Date Defences
2026 · Director
When did we start using passports?
2026 · Director
One of the most dangerous men in American history
2023 · Director
The Rebel Radio that brought down a war criminal
2022 · Director
Can Love and Independence Coexist?
2021 · Director
Filmography 46
Out of Date Defences
2026 · Director
When did we start using passports?
2026 · Director
Olivia & the Clouds
2025 · Director, Writer
One of the most dangerous men in American history
2023 · Director
The Rebel Radio that brought down a war criminal
2022 · Director
Can Love and Independence Coexist?
2021 · Director
How to Find Creative Work
2021 · Director
The Secret Society of the Great Dismal Swamp
2021 · Director
What really happened during the Attica Prison Rebellion
2021 · Director
Las Mariposas: How Three Sisters defied a Dictator
2021 · Director
The Rise and Fall of History's First Empire
2020 · Director
The last chief of the Comanches and the fall of an empire
2020 · Director
El Club de Chichiguas
2020 · Actor, Director
El Regreso al Planeta M
2020 · Niño, Director
Asterisco
2020 · Director, Writer
The life, legacy & assassination of an African revolutionary
2020 · Director
Short Stories About Loneliness
2019 · Director
Divine Comedy
2019 · Director
The Aztec myth of the unlikeliest sun god
2019 · Director
Harvey Milk's radical vision of equality
2019 · Director
Why Should You Read Sci-fi Superstar Octavia E. Butler?
2019 · Director
Midnight's Children
2019 · Director, Editor
Why You'll Never Find the Right Person
2019 · Director
Waiting for Godot
2018 · Director