Tommy Pallotta

Tommy Pallotta was born on May 25, 1968 in USA. Tommy Pallotta's big-screen debut came with High Road directed by Tommy Pallotta in 1996. Tommy Pallotta is known for Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood directed by Richard Linklater, Milo Coy stars as Stan and Jack Black as Grown Up Stan. Tommy Pallotta has got 4 awards and 6 nominations so far. The most recent award Tommy Pallotta achieved is International Emmy Awards. The upcoming new movie Tommy Pallotta plays is Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood which will be released on Apr 01, 2022.

Tommy Pallotta received a degree in Philosophy from the University of Texas at Austin. While at UT he met Richard Linklater and began his film career as an actor and production 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 for MTV; 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 York Museum of Modern Art; and Figures of Speech (2000), a series of interstitials for PBS. He then connected his animation experience with Richard 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 produced music video, In the Waiting Line (2003), using the animation engine from the Quake 3 video game, and the rotoscoped MTV "Breakthrough Video" Destiny (2002), both for the band Zero 7. The Microsoft 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, Richard Linklater, to produce A Scanner Darkly (2006) based on the novel of the same name by Philip K. Dick and starring Keanu Reeves.