Tomás Pichardo-Espaillat

Tomás Pichardo-Espaillat

Directing · Born 1987-03-02 · Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

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).

As cast

As director

Olivia & the Clouds
Olivia & the Clouds 2025
Director
One of the most dangerous men in American history
One of the most dangerous men in American history 2023
Director
The Rebel Radio that brought down a war criminal
The Rebel Radio that brought down a war criminal 2022
Director
Can Love and Independence Coexist?
Can Love and Independence Coexist? 2021
Director
The Secret Society of the Great Dismal Swamp
The Secret Society of the Great Dismal Swamp 2021
Director
What really happened during the Attica Prison Rebellion
What really happened during the Attica Prison Rebellion 2021
Director
Las Mariposas: How Three Sisters defied a Dictator
Las Mariposas: How Three Sisters defied a Dictator 2021
Director
The Rise and Fall of History's First Empire
The Rise and Fall of History's First Empire 2020
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The last chief of the Comanches and the fall of an empire
The last chief of the Comanches and the fall of an empire 2020
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El Club de Chichiguas
El Club de Chichiguas 2020
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El Regreso al Planeta M
El Regreso al Planeta M 2020
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Asterisco
Asterisco 2020
Director
The life, legacy & assassination of an African revolutionary
The life, legacy & assassination of an African revolutionary 2020
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Short Stories About Loneliness
Short Stories About Loneliness 2019
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Divine Comedy
Divine Comedy 2019
Director
The Aztec myth of the unlikeliest sun god
The Aztec myth of the unlikeliest sun god 2019
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Harvey Milk's radical vision of equality
Harvey Milk's radical vision of equality 2019
Director
Why Should You Read Sci-fi Superstar Octavia E. Butler?
Why Should You Read Sci-fi Superstar Octavia E. Butler? 2019
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Midnight's Children
Midnight's Children 2019
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Waiting for Godot
Waiting for Godot 2018
Director
The psychology of post-traumatic stress disorder
The psychology of post-traumatic stress disorder 2018
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The 1937 Haitian Massacre
The 1937 Haitian Massacre 2018
Director
El Camino Interminable
El Camino Interminable 2017
Director
The Neuroscience of Imagination
The Neuroscience of Imagination 2016
Director
Why It Is So Hard to Live in the Present?
Why It Is So Hard to Live in the Present? 2016
Director
Is graffiti art? Or vandalism?
Is graffiti art? Or vandalism? 2016
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What is abstract expressionism?
What is abstract expressionism? 2016
Director
The science of skin color
The science of skin color 2016
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El Vendedor de Muchachas de Cartón
El Vendedor de Muchachas de Cartón 2016
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Who was Confucius?
Who was Confucius? 2015
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Solid, liquid, gas and ... plasma?
Solid, liquid, gas and ... plasma? 2015
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Malvao
Malvao 2015
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Cumbia de Piedra
Cumbia de Piedra 2014
Director
Floating Islands
Floating Islands 2013
Director
Dante
Dante 2013
Director
AstroLunar
AstroLunar 2012
Director
Línea Confín
Línea Confín 2011
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