Tommy Pallotta

Tommy Pallotta

1968-05-25 Houston, Texas, USA 16 Credits

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...

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The Last Ecstatic Days

The Last Ecstatic Days

2023

Executive Producer

Producing

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

Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood

2022

Producer

7.0
Producing

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

More Human Than Human

2018

as Self

5.2
Acting

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

More Human Than Human

2018

Director, Producer, Writer

5.2
Directing Producing Writing

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

Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny

2016

as Self - Friend

6.9
Acting

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

Snack And Drink

2016

Producer

2.0
Producing

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

Last Hijack

2014

Director, Writer

5.5
Directing Writing

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

American Prince

2009

as Self - Interviewer

7.3
Acting

After being forgotten for 30 years, the filmmaker revisits Scorsese's lost documentary 'American Boy' and it's raconteur subject, Steven Prince.

American Prince

American Prince

2009

Director

7.3
Directing

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'

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

2006

as Self

8.2
Acting

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

The Weight of the Line: Animation Tales

2006

as Self

7.0
Acting

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

A Scanner Darkly

2006

Producer

6.8
Producing

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

Tape

2001

Technical Supervisor

6.8

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

Waking Life

2001

Producer, Director of Photography

7.5
Producing Directing

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

In the Bathtub of the World

2001

as Self

5.5
Acting

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

Slacker

1991

as Looking for Missing Friend

6.7
Acting

Austin, Texas, is an Eden for the young and unambitious, from the enthusiastically eccentric to the dangerously apathetic. Here, the nobly lazy can es...