- Tommy Pallotta
Tommy Pallotta (born
May 25 ,1968 , inHouston, Texas ) is an Americanfilm director and producer.Biography
Pallotta received a degree in Philosophy from the
University of Texas at Austin . There, he metRichard Linklater and began his film career as anactor andproduction assistant on Linklater's directorial debut, "Slacker" (1991). After working on numerous films and commercials, Pallotta wrote, directed and produced his first film, "The High Road" (1997). He also produced several of Bob Sabiston's animated projects including: "Roadhead" (1999), which received the Best Animation award at the Aspen Film Festival; a series of interstitials forMTV ; "Snack and Drink" (1999), a three-minute short about an autistic child in a 7-Eleven store, which is now part of the permanent collection of the New YorkMuseum of Modern Art ; and "Figures of Speech" (2000), a series of interstitials for PBS.He then connected his animation experience with Linklater in "Waking Life" (2001). "Waking Life" was the first independently financed and produced computer animated feature. The film was subsequently nominated for three
Independent Spirit Awards , including Best Picture.Pallotta also directed the first
machinima producedmusic video , "In the Waiting Line" (2003), using the animation engine from the Quake 3 video game, and therotoscope d MTV "Breakthrough Video" "Destiny" (2002), both for the bandZero 7 . TheMicrosoft Research and Development team recognized Pallotta for his "penchant for innovation" where he helmed an interactive project based on Jonathan Lethem's novel "Amnesia Moon" (2004), which was an experiment that was not released to the public.He then returned to the
film industry with his frequent collaborator, Linklater, to produce "A Scanner Darkly" (2006) based on the novel of the same name byPhilip K. Dick and starringKeanu Reeves .elected filmography
*"Boyhood" (2013, producer)
* "A Scanner Darkly" (2006, producer)
* "In the Waiting Line" (video) (2003, director)
* "Destiny" (video) (2002, director)
* "Hell House" (2001, associate producer)
* "Waking Life" (2001, producer)
* "Figures of Speech" (2000, producer)
* "Snack and Drink" (2000, producer)
* "Roadhead" (1999, producer)
* "High Road" (1996, producer and director)External links
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* [http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/710/710525p1.html IGN interview with Tommy Pallotta]
* [http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.03/scanner.html Trouble in Toontown] : Wired article about "A Scanner Darkly"'s production
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