Tommy Pallotta

Known for ProductionBorn 1968-05-25 (age 58)Houston, Texas, USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

One Summer in Austin: The Story of Filming 'A Scanner Darkly'

Undone

Waking Life

Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood

American Prince

The Weight of the Line: Animation Tales

In the Bathtub of the World

Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny

Tape

A Scanner Darkly

Slacker

Snack And Drink

Last Hijack

More Human Than Human

The Last Ecstatic Days