Jaime Travis

Jamie Travis has built a strong reputation in Canada's independent film scene as a director of precise vision. Called "one of the most original voices in Canadian cinema" by The Toronto Star's Bruce Kirkland, Jamie's body of work has drawn consistent comparisons to filmmakers as disparate as Peter Greenaway, Todd Solondz and Alfred Hitchcock. All his short films, Why the Anderson Children Didn't Come to Dinner (2003), The Patterns Trilogy (2005/2006) and The Saddest Boy in the World (2006) have debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival and gone on to international TV broadcasts and awards (including Best Western Canadian Director of a Short Film at VIFF 2005 for Patterns). Numerous retrospectives of his work have been held, most notably at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) and at the 2008 Prague International Film Festival. His new short The Armoire (2009), set to premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, concludes his Saddest Children in the World trilogy.