Film Industry Role: Director
Nationality: British
Major Works: "Omagh" (2004) and "Endgame" (2009)
Major Awards and Nominations: BAFTA winner for "Omagh" (2005)
The director of “Endgame” 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-Cravas, he decided to take a post-graduate course in filmmaking. Soon after graduation he acquired the rights of “Faith” (short story written by Nick Hornby) and presented his first short film at the London TV Festival (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).
Impressed with his work, Paul Greengrass, “Captain Phillips´”(2013) director, sent Travis the script for "Omagh", that he co-wrote with Guy Hibbert. The film premiered in 2004 at the Toronto International Film Festival, where it won the Discovery Award. The film also won the 2005 BAFTA TV 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.
In January of 2009, Pete Travis´ “Endgame”, starring William Hurt, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Jonny Lee Miller and Mark Strong, had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. The film dramatizes the last days of the Apartheid, in South Africa.
In 2012, Travis directed a film adaptation of the popular UK comic book series, “Dredd”. In Travis' feature film, Karl Urban takes on the role of judge Dredd with Olivia Thirlby playing his young accomplice.
The TV series "Project Blue Book" is Pete Travis’ latest work. The show stars Ainden Gillen, Michael Malarkey and Laura Mennell and tells the story os a US Air Force Officer and a scientist that are brought together to investigate alien theories, when the Cold War paranoia is spreading.
