Travis Burgess is an award-winning director, writer, and producer with over 15 years of experience in narrative features and documentaries. Travis produced on The Preppie Connection, which IFC Films distributed. His passion for storytelling took him to Angola, Africa, where he produced the feature-length documentary Death Metal Angola, which premiered at DOC NYC and went on to screen at over sixty festivals worldwide. In 2023, Travis made his directorial debut with Hayseed, released theatrically by Good Deed Entertainment, and is now streaming on Apple TV, Prime, Tubi, and many other platforms. His last short, The Silver Cord (2025), won 'Best of Fest' at three festivals last fall, including Palm Screams Film Festival. As a writer, Travis has gained significant recognition. He was named one of the “Top 50 Screenwriters of the Year” by the ISA Fast Track Fellowship, a finalist in Stage32’s “New Blood” competition, and awarded ‘Best Writer’ at New York’s Chain Film Festival. His scripts have earned placements on The Black List and were finalists at prestigious festivals such as Austin, Atlanta, Rhode Island, and New Orleans.
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Biography from TMDB.
- Director, writer and producer
- 3 on MovieCove · 6 credits in all
What are Travis Burgess' films like?
Across a limited sample of 3 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Society and Morality.
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 0 · Earnest 3
A split, not a type: Light 2 · Serious 0 · Dark 1
Grounded 3 · Stylized 0 · Heightened 0
Gentle 1 · Charged 2 · Intense 0
A split, not a type: Steady 2 · Shifting 1 · Whiplash 0
A split, not a type: Straight-faced 2 · Some laughs 1 · Funny 0
Slow burn 1 · Even-paced 2 · Relentless 0
Casual 1 · Engaged 1 · Full focus 1
A split, not a type: Easy watch 1 · Affecting 2 · Heavy 0
Resolved 3 · Open-ended 0 · Ambiguous 0
Moods and endings
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Travis Burgess' films?
As of October 24, 2026, 2 of their 3 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service.
Subscription and free streaming for Travis Burgess' titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
6 credits, 3 with a MovieCove page.
The Ugly Rug (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2024)
Hayseed(2023)
Midcredits score: 60th percentile of all films
The Preppie Connection(2015)
Midcredits score: 42nd percentile of all films
Death Metal Angola(2012)
Midcredits score: 90th percentile of all films
Aqueduct (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
The Silver Cord (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Career shape
A full career of 5 titles, 3 of them dated from 2014 to 2024.
How do Travis Burgess' films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 60th percentile, the median of all 3; across a limited sample of 3 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 51st percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up1
- 50th to 74th1
- 25th to 49th1
Shape of the crowd
2 of their 3 titles are Mixed.
- Broadly Agreed1
- Mixed2
Reviewers score the atmosphere 68/100 and the pacing 49/100 in their films, across 3 reviewed titles. The element that speaks to their work as a director.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Who does Travis Burgess work with?
People who share at least 2 of Travis Burgess' MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Amy Hargreaves shares the most, 2.
Actors
- Amy HargreavesShared titles: Hayseed (2023), The Preppie Connection (2015)See all 2 shared titles with Amy Hargreaves
- Bill SageShared titles: Hayseed (2023), The Preppie Connection (2015)See all 2 shared titles with Bill Sage
Producers
- Octavius PrinceShared titles: Hayseed (2023), The Preppie Connection (2015)See all 2 shared titles with Octavius Prince
- Joseph CasteloShared titles: The Preppie Connection (2015), Death Metal Angola (2012)See all 2 shared titles with Joseph Castelo