TRAVIS CARLSON

Writer and Filmmaker

Travis Carlson is a writer and independent filmmaker from Gerry, NY, a rural town south of Buffalo. Having been raised on a small horse farm near Amish country, he began making films with his friends before graduating from Buffalo State University. Afterward, he spent over a year volunteering on farms in Switzerland and Portugal.

For five years Travis created films, commercials and documentaries for the NFL’s Buffalo Bills, NHL’s Buffalo Sabres and numerous national brands. He has received more than a dozen NYS Emmy Awards. Under his company, Pan-American Film Division, he adapted three feature plays to the screen and created more than fifteen short films, three of which won international competitions earning entrance to the Cannes Film Festival SFC. In 2021, Travis wrote and directed the "one-shot" feature film “Mother’s Day” based on his lived experience with his mother’s struggle with mental illness.