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Travis Burgess is an award-winning director, screenwriter, and producer whose work spans narrative features, documentaries, and short films.

His feature directorial debut, Hayseed, won the Audience Award for Best Mystery at the Another Hole in the Head Film Festival. Its screenplay received Best Writer honors at the Chain Film Festival. His subsequent short film, The Silver Cord (2025), won Best of Fest at three festivals. His latest film, Aqueduct (2026), premiered at the Topanga Film Festival, where it won Best Cinematography, and went on to receive Outstanding Director and Outstanding Short honors at the Empire State Film Festival.

Burgess joined Coalition Films in 2010 and served as a creative executive through 2017. During that time, he traveled to Angola with director Jeremy Xido and the Coalition Films team to produce the feature-length documentary Death Metal Angola. The film premiered at DOC NYC, one of the country's leading documentary festivals, before screening at more than 60 festivals worldwide, including festivals in Dubai, Rotterdam, Buenos Aires, Sydney, and Seoul, as well as a special screening at Palmer Station in Antarctica. The Vladar Company acquired the film for distribution, leading to theatrical releases in New York and Los Angeles.

He also co-produced The Preppie Connection, which premiered at the Hamptons International Film Festival and screened at the Mill Valley and Middleburg Film Festivals before IFC Films released it.

Earlier in his career, Burgess served as an associate producer for CliffsNotes Films, an interactive series of animated short films based on the popular study guides and produced by Mark Burnett (Survivor, Shark Tank). The series received nominations for Best Animated Web Series and Best Interactive Social Media Experience at the IAWTV Awards, as well as Best Branded Entertainment at The Streamys.

Burgess lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife, Melissa, and their twin sons.

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