Tomás Pichardo Espaillat

Tomás PICHARDO ESPAILLAT (1987) is an animation storyteller from the Dominican Republic. His animations have been screened at multiple international film festivals, including Annecy Animation, Quirino Awards, Havana Film Festival and Pictoplasma in Berlin. Pichardo’s work has hints of magic realism, evoking the colourful, surreal and sometimes disorienting experience of the Caribbean. His world is intimate, with characters full of colours and textures, drawn into situations outside of their comfort zone. His newest film, Olivia & las Nubes (2024), was screened at Locarno Film Festival and London Film Festival, among others.

Filmography

(selection) Floating Islands (2013, short), The neuroscience of imagination (2016), Why should you read waiting for Godot? (2018, short), Heart Rot (2018, short), Why should you read Sci-fi superstar Octivia E. Butler? (2019, short), El regreso al planeta M (2020, short), El club de chichiguas (2020, short), Asterisco (2021, short), Las Mariposas (2021, short), What really happened during the Attica Prison Rebellion (2021, short), The Rebel Radio that brought down a war criminal (2022, short), Olivia & las Nubes/Olivia & the Clouds (2024)

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