Pete Travis | |
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| Born | Salford,Greater Manchester, England |
| Occupation(s) | Television, film director |
| Years active | 1996–present |
Pete Travis is a British television and film director. His work includesCold Feet (1999),The Jury (2002) andOmagh (2004) for television andVantage Point (2008),Endgame (2009),Dredd (2012) andCity of Tiny Lights (2016) for cinema.
Before becoming a director, Pete Travis was a social worker. After taking a post-graduate course in film-making he bought the film rights toNick Hornby'sFaith for £12,000. A producer invested the same amount in the film andFaith premiered at theLondon Film Festival on 11 November 1997. ComparingFaith to other unsuccessful football films, Travis toldThe Guardian, "I think the secret of making a good football film is not to have any football in it [...] Football is so much about the passion of its supporters, and you cannot portray that by showing 11 guys running around.Faith is more about the spirit of football than the sport.[1]
Travis became interested in film-making late in life, inspired byAlan Clarke,Costa Gavras andFrank Capra.[2][3] His second short, an adaptation ofAnne Fine'sBill's New Frock (1998), won the ScreenScene Award for Best Short Film or Video at the 1998Atlantic Film Festival.[4]Faith lead to direction work on theITV seriesThe Bill,Cold Feet andThe Jury.
In 2003,Paul Greengrass sent Travis the script toOmagh—a dramatisation of theOmagh bombing that he co-wrote with Guy Hibbert—after seeing his work onThe Jury andHenry VIII.[2] TheChannel 4/RTÉ television film premiered at theToronto International Film Festival in 2004, where it won the Discovery Award.[5] The next year it won theBritish Academy Television Award for Best Single Drama, which Travis shared with the producers.[6] He was also nominated for theIrish Film and Television Award for Best Film Director.[7]
His first studio film,Vantage Point, opened in the United States in February 2008 to the number one box office spot.[8] Another film,Endgame, about the end ofapartheid in South Africa, had its world premiere at the 2009Sundance Film Festival.[9] In June 2009, he signed on to directCome Like Shadows, a reworking of Shakespeare'sMacbeth.[10] The following year he signed on to directDredd, a film adaptation of theJudge Dredd comics character.[11] Travis never completed the film, and star Karl Urban attributes writerAlex Garland as the film's actual director.[12]
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1997 | The Bill | Episode "Rift" |
| 1999 | Cold Feet | 2 episodes |
| 2000 | Other People's Children | 4 episodes |
| 2002 | The Jury | 6 episodes |
| 2003 | Henry VIII | Miniseries |
| 2017 | Fearless | 6 episodes |
| 2019–2020 | Project Blue Book | 4 episodes |
| 2021 | Bloodlands | 4 episodes |
| 2022 | Marie Antoinette | 4 episodes |
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Omagh | |
| 2009 | Endgame | With limited theatrical release |
| 2013 | Legacy | |
| 2015 | The Go-Between |
| Year | Award | Category | Title | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Toronto International Film Festival | Discovery Award | Omagh | Won |
| 2005 | British Academy Television Award | Best Single Drama | Won | |
| Irish Film and Television Award | Best Film Director | Nominated | ||
| Director's Guild of Great Britain Awards | Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Television Movie/Miniseries | Nominated |
