writer/producer/director
Travis Bain is a filmmaker and novelist based in Cairns, Far North QLD.
Born in Port Macquarie, NSW, in 1973, Travis fell in love with cinema at an early age, when his parents took him to see his first movie, Star Wars, at the tender age of four.
He moved to Brisbane in 1998 to study Film & Television Production at Moreton Institute of TAFE, where he learned all aspects of camera operation, lighting, sound and editing.
While still a student, Travis won the Best Television Commercial award in the Queensland Transport Mission Incredible competition for his 30-second TV commercial “Trainspotting.” The commercial was screened on national TV and Travis was awarded with an all-expenses-paid trip to the 1998 AFI Awards in Sydney, where he met industry luminaries.
In 1999, Travis won the Best Film award in the Brisbane Courier-Mail’s “What’s On” short film festival for his short comedy Snowdroppers, and later that same year, he won Best Film at the regional Red Dirt Film Festival for his science fiction short The Face of Forever.
In 2002, inspired by Robert Rodriguez’s $7,000 breakthrough movie El Mariachi, he began production on his own debut feature-length movie, Scratched.
In 2005 Scratched screened at the Brisbane Powerhouse as part of the digiSPAA Digital Feature Film Initiative and also screened at the 2005 Melbourne Underground Film Festival. In 2011, Scratched was finally released to the public on DVD. Travis currently has various new projects in development.