Tommy Pallotta

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 awardwinning feature film Waking Life He followed up with Philip K Dicks A Scanner Darkly starring Keanu Reeves and Robert Downey Jr He then directed the Emmynominated transmedia thriller Collapsus Most recently he codirected the feature documentary animation hybrid Last Hijack The interactive companion of Last Hijack won an International Digital Emmy Award