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, in...
Known For
Complete Filmography
The Last Ecstatic Days
2023
Executive Producer
Ethan Sisser, a young man with terminal brain cancer, sits alone in his hospital room. When he starts livestreaming his death journey on social media,...
Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood
2022
Producer
A man narrates stories of his life as a 10-year-old boy in 1969 Houston, weaving tales of nostalgia with a fantastical account of a journey to the moo...
More Human Than Human
2018
as Self
Stephen Hawking has warned that the creation of powerful artificial intelligence will be “either the best, or the worst thing, ever to happen to human...
More Human Than Human
2018
Director, Producer, Writer
Stephen Hawking has warned that the creation of powerful artificial intelligence will be “either the best, or the worst thing, ever to happen to human...
Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny
2016
as Self - Friend
Highlighting one of the most innovative American directors, this film reveals the path traveled by the auteur from his small-town Texas roots to his w...
Snack And Drink
2016
Producer
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...
Last Hijack
2014
Director, Writer
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 be...
American Prince
2009
as Self - Interviewer
After being forgotten for 30 years, the filmmaker revisits Scorsese's lost documentary 'American Boy' and it's raconteur subject, Steven Prince.
American Prince
2009
Director
After being forgotten for 30 years, the filmmaker revisits Scorsese's lost documentary 'American Boy' and it's raconteur subject, Steven Prince.
One Summer in Austin: The Story of Filming 'A Scanner Darkly'
2006
as Self
A unique documentary that interlaces archival interviews with author Philip K. Dick with chats featuring cast and crew. Discussed are the origins of t...
The Weight of the Line: Animation Tales
2006
as Self
A behind-the scenes look at the grueling one-year process of transferring the filmed images into the unique animation style featured in the final vers...
A Scanner Darkly
2006
Producer
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.
Tape
2001
Technical Supervisor
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...
Waking Life
2001
Producer, Director of Photography
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 participa...
In the Bathtub of the World
2001
as Self
On January 1st, 1999, Caveh Zahedi started a one-year video diary. The idea was to shoot one minute each day. This is the result.
Slacker
1991
as Looking for Missing Friend
Austin, Texas, is an Eden for the young and unambitious, from the enthusiastically eccentric to the dangerously apathetic. Here, the nobly lazy can es...