What’s Wrong with This Picture?

(2 min, live action + animation, comedy) - watch it now

Jeffrey Travis’ debut short film. When young Aidan draws the wrong picture, things can go wrong, very wrong, in the world of a three year old. A mock cautionary tale mixing live action and animation. Winner of multiple awards, this film has played at over 30 festivals and is distributed on the shorts! DVD collection.

Flatland, The Movie

(35 min, animation) watch trailer

Based on the classic cult sci-fi novel written in 1884 by Edwin A. Abbott, Flatland tells the story a square living in a two-dimensional world who one day gets a peek at the third dimension. Starring the voices of Martin Sheen, Kristen Bell, Michael York, Tony Hale, and Joe Estevez. Featuring the animation of Dano Johnson. Visit the official site of Flatland The Movie.

That’s The Business We’re In

(1 min, commercial web spot) watch it now

I wrote and directed this as a series of three low-budget web commercials created for IknowWare corporation. A wry look at how companies  who don’t use IknowWare for managing their resources, manage to do business.

Yesterday We Had It All

(3 min, music video) watch it now

The debut music video for the band Hundred Year Storm. My first music video also, I wanted to play with the ideas of layers, veils, memory, nostalgia, and Goldilocks.

Except For Danny

(television pilot presentation, 20th Century FOX, 2005)

An unaired television pilot presentation, I was asked to write and direct it by 20th Century FOX after they saw my short film What’s Wrong with This Picture?. It was based on a similar concept.

Oldies but goodies...

In 2002 through 2005, I made a slew of no-budget short films. Many of these are part of Project Seven, a film collective I co-founded to encourage filmmakers to  make seven short films in one year. The idea was to explore what we could do creatively with  whatever we could make work, a short time frame, and an agreed-upon topic or constraint.

Evil Twinkie

(2 min, 35 mm, comedy) watch it now

Three friends are relaxing in a hot tub when a twinkie falls from the sky. Three friends, one twinkie. This comedic short written by Owen Egerton was featured on WB/NBC following Saturday Night Live.

Another Chance

(10 min excerpts, Documentary TV pilot) watch it now

What happens when a community comes together to give a group of homeless people another chance at getting back on their feet? Created by Travis Knapp, this pilot experiment features interviews with homeless families whose stories will move you, and transformations will warm your heart.

Pollution - Watch Now

(10 min, drama)

Premiered at the 2012 Cannes Short Film Corner

Pollution tells the story of 13-year-old Anna growing up with an alcoholic mother

John Deere OLC spots

(3 webisodes, marketing videos)

Wrote and directed three "CSI"-style websidodes to promote John Deere's oils, lubricants and coolants (OLC). Shown at John Deere dealers nationwide.

Dragon Day - official website

(FEATURE FILM)

When out-of-work techie Duke Evans and his family try to rebuild their lives in a remote mountain town, their own version of the American Dream is cut short as planes begin falling from the sky and all power, communications and transportation suddenly stops working. Caught in an unprecedented cyberattack that signifies the end of the U.S. as we know it, Duke and his family must use all their wits and the unlikely help of an illegal immigrant, to survive this frighteningly realistic scenario where water, food and time are running out.