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'' (1999), '' The Jury'' (2002) and ''

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'' (2004) for television and '' Vantage Point'' (2008), '' Endgame'' (2009), '' Dredd'' (2012) and '' City of Tiny Lights'' (2016) for cinema.

Career

Before becoming a director, Pete Travis was a social worker. After taking a post-graduate course in film-making he bought the film rights to Nick Hornby's ''Faith'' for £12,000. A producer invested the same amount in the film and ''Faith'' premiered at the London Film Festival on 11 November 1997. Comparing ''Faith'' to other unsuccessful football films, Travis told ''

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'', "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. Travis became interested in film-making late in life, inspired by Alan Clarke, Costa Gavras and

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. IndieLondon. Retrieved on 5 March 2008. His second short, an adaptation of Anne Fine's ''Bill's New Frock'' (1998), won the ScreenScene Award for Best Short Film or Video at the 1998 Atlantic Film Festival. ''Faith'' lead to direction work on the ITV series ''

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'', ''

'' and '' The Jury''. In 2003, Paul Greengrass sent Travis the script to ''

''—a dramatisation of the Omagh bombing that he co-wrote with Guy Hibbert—after seeing his work on ''The Jury'' and ''

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television film premiered at the

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in 2004, where it won the Discovery Award. The next year it won the British Academy Television Award for Best Single Drama, which Travis shared with the producers. He was also nominated for the Irish Film and Television Award for Best Film Director. His first studio film, '' Vantage Point'', opened in the United States in February 2008 to the number one box office spot. Another film, '' Endgame'', about the end of

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in South Africa, had its world premiere at the 2009

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. In June 2009, he signed on to direct '' Come Like Shadows'', a reworking of Shakespeare's ''

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''. The following year he signed on to direct '' Dredd'', a film adaptation of the Judge Dredd comics character. Travis never completed the film, and star Karl Urban attributes writer Alex Garland as the film's actual director.

Filmography

Film

Director

* '' Vantage Point'' (2008) * '' Dredd'' (2012) * '' City of Tiny Lights'' (2016)

Writer

* '' The Gunman'' (2015)

Short film

* ''Faith'' (1996) * ''Bill's New Frock'' (1998)

Television

TV movies

Awards

References

External links

*
Interview about ''Vantage Point''
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