Tommy Pallotta
- Known for
- Production
- Born
- May 25, 1968
- Place of birth
- Houston, Texas, USA
Biography
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.
Movies with Tommy Pallotta
- Slacker 1990 · ★ 6.7
- Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny 2016 · ★ 6.8
- More Human Than Human 2018 · ★ 5.2
- One Summer in Austin: The Story of Filming 'A Scanner Darkly' 2006 · ★ 8.2
- American Prince 2009 · ★ 7.0
- In the Bathtub of the World 2001 · ★ 7.0
- The Weight of the Line: Animation Tales 2006 · ★ 7.0
Movies directed by Tommy Pallotta
- More Human Than Human 2018 · ★ 5.2
- Last Hijack 2014 · ★ 5.5
- American Prince 2009 · ★ 7.0