Pete Travis - FEST PRO Masterclass
22 JUN // 13:00 // Auditorium Centro Multimeios Espinho
Film Industry Role: Director;
Major Works: "Vantage Point” (2008), "Endgame" (2009);
Established director and BAFTA winner, Pete Travis will focus his masterclass on the art of directing actors. His lecture will be both theoretical and practical, as he will share his knowledge in directing and also propose interactive exercises to his audience. The audience will also have the opportunity to learn how Pete solved the issues encountered on the filmmaking process of his films.
Moderator: Raquel Cipriano
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Established director and BAFTA winner Pete Travis actually had a late start in his filmmaking career: before becoming a director, Pete Travis was a social worker. However, inspired by Alan Clarke and Costa-Gavras, he decided to take a post-graduate course in filmmaking. Soon after graduation he acquired the rights to Faith, a short story written by Nick Hornby, and presented his first short film at the London TV Festival, in 1997.
Later, he directed episodes of "Cold Feet" (1999) and the TV series "Other People's Children" (2000), as well as "The Jury" (2002) mini-series, and the TV movie "Henry VIII" (2003), featuring Helena Bonham-Carter and Mark Strong.
Impressed with his work, Paul Greengrass (director of Captain Phillips), sent Travis a script that he co-wrote with Guy Hibbert – "Omagh". The film premiered in 2004 at the Toronto International Film Festival, where it won the Discovery Award. The film also won the 2005 BAFTA Award for Best Single Drama.
Vantage Point, was his first major motion film, starring Dennis Quaid and Matthew Fox. It was released in the USA, in 2008. Just one year later, in January of 2009, Pete Travis took to Sundance to premiere Endgame, which dramatizes the last days of Apartheid in South Africa and stars Chiwetel Ejiofor, William Hurt, Jonny Lee Miller and Mark Strong.
Later, Travis directed a film adaptation of the popular UK comic book series, Dredd (2012). In Travis' feature film, Karl Urban takes on the role of judge Dredd with Olivia Thirlby playing his young accomplice. The film quickly gathered a cult following.
Pete Travis most recent film work stars Riz Ahmed and Billie Piper: City of Tiny Lights (2016) - a crime thriller film, written by Patrick Neate and based on his own novel of the same name.
