Producer
Tommy Pallotta
58 years · Houston, Texas, USA · 12 films
Tommy Pallotta is a storyteller who creatively blends technology with filmmaking, animation, and interactivity. Microsoft Research recognized his penchant for innovation where he led a research team to create and design interactive, animated storytelling experiences. Pallotta also directed the first machinima music video, In the Waiting Line, and the rotoscoped MTV Breakthrough video Destiny, both for the band Zero 7. He has produced several short animated films that garnered numerous awards, including Snack and Drink, which is now part of a permanent collection in the New York Museum of Modern Art. Tommy first connected Richard Linklater with animation when he produced the award-winning feature film Waking Life. He followed up with Philip K. Dick’s A Scanner Darkly, starring Keanu Reeves and Robert Downey Jr. He then directed the Emmy-nominated transmedia thriller, Collapsus. Most recently he co-directed the feature documentary/ animation hybrid: Last Hijack. The interactive companion of Last Hijack won an International Digital Emmy Award.
Best known for
Filmography 12
Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood
2022 · Producer
On Netflix
More Human Than Human
2018 · Self, Director
Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny
2016 · Self - Friend
Snack And Drink
2016 · Producer
Last Hijack
2014 · Director, Writer
American Prince
2009 · Self - Interviewer, Director
One Summer in Austin: The Story of Filming 'A Scanner Darkly'
2006 · Self
The Weight of the Line: Animation Tales
2006 · Self
A Scanner Darkly
2006 · Producer
On Kanopy
Waking Life
2001 · Producer, Cinematography
In the Bathtub of the World
2001 · Self
On Kanopy
Slacker
1990 · Looking for Missing Friend
On HBO Max