About + sobre

Eric Tortora Pato is a storyteller—but in a more useful sense, Eric is an Emmy®-winning animator, filmmaker, video + audio producer, senior creative professional, writer, illustrator, 2D and 3D concept artist, and director. He also designs patterns for fashion and products, dabbles in music, and is addicted to collecting skills and hobbies.

Eric is currently based and working in New York City, where they are starting new projects and positions after exiting a 5-year stint as a department leader and lead video, animation, and audio producer at a science-focused PR and Ad agency. Eric also finished a 3-year stint as the lead audio director and producer for a start-up content house, where their team created the podcast The Control Variable, a 2-season documentary and investigative journalism show, season 1 being a miniseries and season 2 being an interview series, led by Kim Cutter and Bryan Blatstein.

Longterm, they plan to head shows and projects in writing, directing, and creative production positions. This is, of course, famously easy to do.

Ibero-American, Portuguese Hispanic, and Italian-American, Eric is a citizen of both the USA and the EU (via Portugal), and speaks some decent amount of English, Portuguese, and (increasingly) Spanish. Eric is also learning Italian and Mandarin Chinese for family, personal, and professional reasons. They are planning on staying in the New York Greater Metro for the foreseeable future, excluding temporary and fully scheduled projects.

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Eric is non-binary and uses the following pronouns: (He/Him/They/Them). In Portuguese, Spanish, and Italian, Eric currently uses masculine pronouns & endings (él/ele/lui/-o).

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Eric is also the producer of the independent documentary feature film "Touching Sound: The Technika Documentary". Written and directed by Nicholas Dobkin. The film premiered at SDCC 2017, and has shown at Seattle's Tech Doc Fest, GDC's inaugural 2018 Film Festival, Manchester's MANIFF 2018, and Melbourne’s MDFF 2018. As of 2023, the film is available on several platforms including Tubi, Amazon Prime, and Vimeo on Demand. Further screenings are currently being tentatively planned. Follow or inquire about the film here.