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Tommy Pallotta
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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.
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Highlighting one of the most innovative...Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny 2016
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In this short film filmmakers Bob...Snack And Drink 2016
In this short film, filmmakers Bob Sabiston and Tommy Pallotta accompany Ryan, a six-foot-tall, 13-year-old autistic boy, to a local convenience store to purchase a "snack and drink".
Documentary that follows the lives of...Last Hijack 2014
Documentary that follows the lives of two pirates and their community on the Somali coastline; what are the incentives of the pirates, why did they become pirates, how did they grow up in a country with political chaos, war and extreme poverty? The narrative structure is built around two interweaving story-lines; one depicting the "present", the daily lives of the pirates and their community, and the second in the "past", revealing through epic animation, the unfolding of a recent hijacking.
After being forgotten for 30 years the...American Prince 2009
After being forgotten for 30 years, the filmmaker revisits Scorsese's lost documentary 'American Boy' and it's raconteur subject, Steven Prince.
An undercover cop in a nottoodistant...A Scanner Darkly 2006
An undercover cop in a not-too-distant future becomes involved with a dangerous new drug and begins to lose his own identity as a result.
Jon a firsttime filmmaker finds himself...Tape 2001
Jon, a first-time filmmaker, finds himself in Lansing, Michigan to present his film at a local film festival. Vince, his high school friend who is now a volunteer fireman and small-time drug dealer, also visits the town to support Jon on his big day, or so it seems. After a raucous hello and much backslapping, it appears that there is an undercurrent of tension in the air.
Waking Life is about a young...Waking Life 2001
Waking Life is about a young man in a persistent lucid dream-like state. The film follows its protagonist as he initially observes and later participates in philosophical discussions that weave together issues like reality, free will, our relationships with others, and the meaning of life.
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Austin Texas is an Eden for...Slacker 1991
Austin, Texas, is an Eden for the young and unambitious, from the enthusiastically eccentric to the dangerously apathetic. Here, the nobly lazy can eschew responsibility in favor of nursing their esoteric obsessions. The locals include a backseat philosopher who passionately expounds on his dream theories to a seemingly comatose cabbie, a young woman who tries to hawk Madonna's Pap test to anyone who will listen and a kindly old anarchist looking for recruits.
