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Director

Tomás Pichardo-Espaillat

Directing

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Directed credits

26

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0.3

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Directed movies: 26Directed series: 0All crew credits: 40

TMDB ID: 3539624

IMDb ID: nm5560844

Known for: Directing

Born: March 2, 1987

Age: 39

Place of birth: Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 2011 - 2026

Years active: 16

Wikidata: Q119527928

Also known as

Tomatico

Frequent jobs

Director (24)Animation Director (1)Supervising Animation Director (1)Animation (6)Storyboard Artist (4)Screenplay (3)Editor (1)

Biography

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).