TV at the Pollock: Fallout

Frederick E.O. Toye is an Emmy Award-winning director, producer, screenwriter, and editor of television and film. Fred’s distinct signature incorporates character-driven elements of a story framed within an enormous palette that captures the emotional intimacy inside each character. His short films received many festival showings and awards, and he has since directed over 140 hours of television and streaming, including Lost, The Good Wife, Person of Interest, American Gods, The Walking Dead, See, Lost in Space, Westworld, Watchmen, Snowpiercer, The Terminal List, The Boys, and Shōgun, for which he received the Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Directing for the episode “Crimson Sky.” He has recently completed the pilots for Terminal List: Dark Wolf and Bloodaxe for Amazon, as well as producing and directing Season 2 of Fallout. He is currently producing and directing the pilot of Amazon and Sony’s adaptation of God of War.

A native of Los Angeles, Fred came to the business of film at an early age. He became obsessed with television as a child and learned Super 8 filmmaking from his father, who was a film hobbyist. A graduate of UCSB, Fred began his lifelong love of film history and discovered that the process of being an artist was indeed in the honing of craft and a humble respect and love for classic cinema. His early career offered many opportunities for on-the-job training. Beginning as a production assistant and moving to visual effects design, title design, assistant film editing, and editor, his continually developing career included ownership of a commercial and visual effects production company and editing a multitude of major television and film productions. Now in his fortieth year in the business, Fred has an intense passion for visual storytelling and helping shepherd young talent.

Miguel Penabella is Assistant Director of the Carsey-Wolf Center and an alumnus of the Film and Media Studies graduate program at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he received both his MA and PhD. He writes as a freelance videogame critic, with bylines in Playboy, Vice, Kill Screen, and Unwinnable, among others. He is a former editor and monthly columnist for Haywire Magazine and was named “Blogger of the Year” by Critical Distance in 2017. At UCSB, he taught the Experimental Games course as part of the campus’s Creative Computing Initiative and was co-organizer of Parameters of Play, a research focus group on videogames.