Travis Burgess

Travis is a screenwriter and a producer. He's developed award-winning feature films, screenplays, and documentaries. His screenplay, Dirty Hands, was selected as a finalist in the New Orleans Film Festival 2019 Screenplay Competition. Also, Dirty Hands was a top ten finalist in the 2019 Stage32 "New Blood" competition. The Terrestrial, another screenplay, is a semifinalist in the Shore Script competition. His latest script, Hayseed was Second Rounder at the 2020 Austin Film Festival and a finalist at the Rhode Island International Film Festival. Travis joined Coalition Films in 2010, where he served as a creative executive through 2017. Travis traveled with director Jeremy Xido (Cabula6) and Coalition Films to Angola to produce the feature-length documentary, Death Metal Angola. The film first gained attention at DOC NYC, New York's premier documentary festival. It went on to play at +60 festivals around the world. The Vladar Company acquired Death Metal Angola and it had a theatrical release in New York and Los Angeles. Travis co-produced The Preppie Connection, which premiered at the Hamptons International Film Festival and was released by IFC Films. The film was successful in recouping its investment and now is in overages. Travis was an associate producer for CliffsNotes Films, an interactive series of animated short films based on the CliffsNotes study guides-Mark Burnett (Survivor, Shark Tank) produced the series. CliffsNotes received nominations for Best Animated Web Series, and Best Interactive Social Media Experience at IAWTV Awards, and Best Branded Entertainment at The Streamy's. For nearly ten years, Travis worked with the tremendously talented screenwriters Ashley Rudden and Joseph Castelo, honing his skills as a writer. Together, they wrote Upstate, a crime-thriller that was optioned by Park Pictures. Travis live in Brooklyn, New York, with my wife, Melissa.