LOGLINE | Half-brothers, shaped by vastly different lives, unite for the first time at a horse track to honor their father’s memory by scattering his ashes.

DIRECTED BY | Travis Burgess

CINEMATOGRAPHY | Bradley Credit

WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY | Travis Burgess

STARRING | Bill Sage (American Psycho, Orange is the New Black), Ismenia Mendes (Orange is the New Black), Kathryn Morris (Cold Case, Minority Report), Jack Falahee (How to Get Away with Murder, Mercy Street), Nolan North (Pretty Little Liars, Uncharted), Caitlin Carver (I Tonya, Chicago Fire), Amy Hargreaves (Blue Ruin, 13 Reasons Why), Marta Piekarz (Queer as Folk), Eric Cotti (Netflix’s Hit and Run).

PRODUCED BY | Michael Vincent Brown, Vic Lord, Eric Cotti, and Travis Burgess

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS | J. Manuel

CO- PRODUCED BY | Kyle Klaus

LOGLINE | Following the discovery of a reverend's body on Easter Sunday, a retired detective turned insurance investigator, tasked with finding grounds for denying a policy payout, uncovers corruption and murder in a rural community.

DISTRIBUTED BY | Good Deed Entertainment

REVIEWS |

“A neatly layered mystery, encased in small-town charm.” - Mike Hughes, Lansing State Journal

“A must-see this year.” - The Totally Awesome Show

RECOGNITION & ACCOLADES |

2023 Dumbo Film Festival - NYC Premiere

2023 Black Bear Film Festival - Pennsylvania Premiere

2023 Hell’s Half Mile Film Festival - Programmer’s Award Winner

2023 Macon Film Festival - Georgia Premiere

2023 Chain Film Festival - Award Winner - ‘Best Writer’

2023 Capital City Film Festival - Michigan Premiere - Closing Night Film (2x Sold Out Screenings)

2022 SF Indie’s Another Hole In The Head Film Festival - US Premiere & Audience Award Winner - ‘Best Mystery’

2022 Derby Film Festival - World Premiere

2021 Atlanta Film Festival screenplay competition - Semi-Finalist (Screenplay)

2020 Flickers: Rhode Island International Film Festival, Award Finalist (Screenplay)

2020 Austin Film Festival “Drama Feature” screenplay competition, Second-Rounder (Screenplay)

© 2023 TRAVIS BURGESS. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

Dirty Hands, the screenplay, was a finalist at this year's New Orleans Film Festival. NOFF is considered a Top Tier festival with over 25,000 in attendance annually. The script beat out 700 other scripts in competition. Also, Dirty Hands was a top ten finalist in the 2019 Stage32 "New Blood" competition which receives over +2000 submissions each year.

LOG LINE
After accidentally killing a trespasser and burying the body in his Brooklyn Community Garden—Erroll finds himself haunted by his past and his simple life begins to unravel.

SYNOPSIS
Erroll is a man of few words and fewer friends. In retirement, isolating himself to one city block—Erroll spends this time dealing with his one annoying tenant and working on his personal project, a community garden just across the street.

But things change one night while walking back from the corner store, Erroll witnesses a familiar gangster shoot a young man, place him in the truck on his car, and drive off into the night.

Later, from his apartment window, Erroll sees the shooter burying the dead boy in the garden. After a confrontation, Erroll accidentally kills the shooter with his shovel. In a panic, Erroll makes a decision to bury both bodies—changing his life for the worse.

The next morning, the police are at Erroll’s door with questions and shortly thereafter the owner of the community garden lot informs Erroll that she’s sold the property to a developer.

Soon the memories of a mysterious dead boy begin haunting him, and along with the cops on his tail and the inevitable excavation of the garden, Erroll’s mind, and his guilt take over.

As a series of events bring Erroll straight to the gang members looking for revenge, Erroll is left wondering if he can ever beat the demons of his past and the horrors of his present.

Recognition & Accolades:

2022 Outstanding Screenplay Feature Competition, Quarterfinalist

2020 ScreenCraft Screenwriting Fellowship Quarterfinalist

2020 ISA Fast Track Fellowship Top 50 Screenwriters

2020 TSL: The Script Lab Screenplay Competition Semifinalist

2019 New Orleans Film Festival Finalist

6th Annual Stage 32 New Blood Competition Top 10 Finalist

© 2020 TRAVIS BURGESS. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

Directed by Joesph Castelo

Production Companies: Coalition Films, Mensch Productions, Parallell Cinéma, and Relic Pictures

Co-Producer: Travis Burgess

Distributed by IFC Films

“A SOLID CRAZY COCAINE TALE OF WOE!" 

- Harry Knowles, Ain't It Cool News

"FRAUGHT WITH DANGER, EDGY DRAMA... WELL WORTH SEEING."

-Jeffery Lyons, Huffington Post

"BEFORE YOU SEND YOUR CHILD TO BOARDING SCHOOL, SEE THIS MOVIE!"

-Mike Hogan, Vanity Fair

Based on a true story of a prep school student who smuggled $300k of uncut cocaine into the US in 1984. The Preppie Connection chronicles the exploits of a group of private school students who ran a drug distribution operation in the early 1980s. The story centers on Toby, the lower-class scholarship student, who uses his street cred and access to drugs to make friends with the popular kids, eventually allowing him to cultivate a drug trafficking network. Toby gets in far over his head as he leads his friends into the dangerous world of Colombian drug cartels.

The Preppie Connection stars Thomas Mann and Lucy Fry. Premiered at the 2015 Hamptons Int’l Film Festival. Released by IFC Films in 2016.

Available on streaming services.

Directed by Jeremy Xido

Production Companies: Coalition Films, Cabula6

Associate Producer: Travis Burgess

Distributed by The Vladar Company

“A BEAUTIFUL FILM..." 
- Huffington Post

"RAUCOUSLY CROWD-PLEASING..."
- Hollywood Reporter

"ABSORBING, BEAUTIFUL SHOT DOCUMENTARY... SUPERB FILM."
- Indiewire

Sonia Ferreira and Wilker Flores live and breathe hardcore rock and roll. They run the Okutiuka orphanage in the war-ravaged city of Huambo, Angola and dream of mounting the first-ever national rock concert. Raucous and righteous, DEATH METAL ANGOLA follows their story, giving audiences a look at a rock show off the grid that is fulfilling, haunting, and real.

DMA had its theatrical release by The Vladar Company in 2013. Premiered at 50+ film festivals including Dubai, Rotterdam, and New York City.

Available on streaming services.

When the love life of a young couple is affected by a shared addiction, they must face a choice — will technology bring them together or turn them off?

Directed by Michael Brown

Production Company: American Bravado

Producer: Travis Burgess

Official Selections:

2020 OTHER WORLDS Film Festival

2020 RiverRun International Film Festival

2020 Lighthouse International Film Festival

2020 Lift-Off Global Network’s Sci-Fi & Fantasy: Genre Lab

2020 Fear No Film Festival

2020 GenreBlast Film Festival

Directed by Josh Faure-Brac

Production Companies: AOL Studios, Coalition Films, Mark Burnett Productions

Executive Producer: Mark Burnett, Joseph Castelo

Associate Producer: Travis Burgess 

‘Close Encounters’ Meets ‘Short Term 12’

LOG LINE

A young veteran takes a job at his childhood home, a foster care community set in rural Michigan—after a close encounter with a UFO, his life as a houseparent turns upside down.

Screenplay by Travis Burgess

Story by Michael Brown & Travis Burgess

We wanted to write a family sci-fi adventure harkening back to films such as E.T. and Cocoon—big heart with big visual effects. My script, The Terrestrial, is just that—Close Encounters meets Short Term 12.

I met my writing partner, Michael Brown, when I was a young kid. We grew up in the same town in Michigan. We both went to film school and connected again years later. Michael pitched The Terrestrial as a story idea. I told him I wanted a shot at writing it, and he agreed.

The inspiration came from Michael's real-life childhood home, the VFW National Home for Children—there is only one like it in the country. In the heart of rural Michigan, miles from the nearest town, the VFW is a self-contained campus with over 350 acres of land abutting endless fields. The VFW was founded in 1925 as a place where the families left behind by war.

The VFW posts in each state sponsor a house on the campus, paying for the food, shelter, and clothing for its children. There are over 200 children and 50 full-time employees on the campus.

Both Micheal and I love the sci-fi family movies of the 1980s and wanted to pay tribute to those filmmakers. So, we took the Children's Home setting and asked: "What would happen if one of the houseparents were to be abducted by a UFO?" Our story covers a wide variety of tones and emotions—ranging from silly humor and wounding drama to genuine wonder and outright terror—without ever ringing a false note.

Our lead characters are Lenny Michaels, and his wife, Ashley. Unable to have children of their own, they decide to take a job at Lenny's childhood home, the Waverly Home for Children as houseparents. Shortly after, Lenny has a close encounter with a UFO, and everything he thought he knew shatters into a million pieces. How do you explain an alien abduction to your partner? Or to your employer? Lenny fears he could lose everything. Confiding in Ashley could be disastrous. She's always been there for Lenny. She dropped out of college for Lenny, supporting him with his PTSD after his three tours in Iraq. What would Ashley think? Would she leave him? To make matters harder, Lenny's boss has asked him to speak at the States Days—a critical weekend when all of the donors visit the campus. He's the perfect poster boy for the Home, but how will he be able to speak in public after what he went through? Lenny struggles to keep up appearances and tries his best to be a father figure to his six children. All the while, he knows there is a monster somewhere in the sky. How can he protect the ones he loves if he cannot defend himself?

Recognition & Accolades:

2020 Shore Scripts Feature Contest - Quarter-Finalist

© 2020 TRAVIS BURGESS. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

Created by Travis Burgess

Ready for the adventure of a lifetime? Meet Guy Guggenheim! Guy is a fourth-grader, time-traveler, history savant... and an all-around really great guy (no pun intended). He’s a sweet kid, but a bit of a loner. He is often picked on by a group of bozos at his school. To escape, he daydreams of having his own adventures like the hero explorers and scientists he admires.

One fateful field trip to the Museum of Natural History, Guy meets a 4,000-year-old talking cat named Columbus. Together, Guy and Columbus go on real-life adventures. This duo is transported back in time by leaping through hidden portals behind the dioramas in the Museum.

In each episode, Guy and Columbus encounter famous explorers or scientists and help them in their journeys while learning about important historic events.

Billy Raftery with CBS Sports and Coalition Films tells the story of iconic broadcaster and college basketball personality Bill Raftery in a one-hour documentary, WITH A KISS. The show debuts Final Four weekend on Saturday, April 2, 2016 (12:00-1:00 PM, ET) on CBS. The documentary is produced by Raftery’s son, Billy and Joseph Castelo. Billy Raftery directs and narrates the film.

Through a son’s eyes, WITH A KISS tells the story of a father who had been on the road to the Final Four his whole life, and last year, at age 73, got the call to announce his first Final Four on television. The documentary chronicles Raftery’s experience at the 2015 Final Four in Indianapolis, his 35-year broadcasting career, and ascent to one of the pinnacles in sports broadcasting as CBS Sports’ lead college basketball analyst. The show presents an intimate look at Raftery’s family life and highlights his early years in which the Kearny, N.J. native was a basketball star earning player of the year honors as a high school senior in 1959.

WITH A KISS also features interviews with numerous college coaches, broadcasting colleagues and current and former players including Jim Boeheim, Lou Carnesecca, Tom Izzo, Mike Krzyzewski, John Thompson, Sr., Roy Williams, Jay Wright, Grant Hill, Verne Lundquist, Jim Nantz, Charles Barkley, Jay Bilas, Sean McDonough, Jerome Lane, Denzel Valentine and many more.

Raftery joined CBS Sports in 1983 and will call his 34th NCAA Tournament this year, teaming again with Jim Nantz and Grant Hill to call the Final Four. Last year he was inducted into the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association’s Hall of Fame.

Antique Bar & Bakery is a new restaurant in a century old Hoboken landmark boasting a 30 ton coal oven.  

Antique was designed with a flare of fun and the decor designed around the lasting impressions of the super seventies. Fornasetti credenzas, Capodimonte centerpieces, Culver glassware, wood paneling, and swag lights. The space features an open-air kitchen that uses the original, century old, iconic, coal-stoked oven as its centerpiece.

Lee Camp's Moment of Clarity Show is a web series I produced. MOC combines offbeat humor with an unflinching and honest assessment of current events with guests like Chris Hedges, Roseanne Barr, economist Richard Wolff, and journalist Greg Palast. The Moment of Clarity was picked up and became Redacted Tonight with Lee Camp on RT.