by Travis Mills | Sep 16, 2019 | 12 Westerns in 12 Months
Each Monday, I share reviews of Westerns I’m studying to prepare for making 12 Westerns in 12 Months during 2020. I am watching these films not from an audience perspective but as a filmmaker, as a student of the genre. Week Twenty: The Ballad of Cable...
by Travis Mills | May 30, 2018 | Son of a Gun
This photograph was taken by Alex Harris, @thesouthinanewlight, while making Son of a Gun. I remember riding with my dog Bandit in the back of Nick Fornwalt’s truck from one location to next on the Raymond battlefield thinking about the permanence of film. This...
by Travis Mills | Jan 28, 2018 | Tips for Filmmakers
I’ve always felt that it’s important for filmmakers to study filmmakers. If you like a movie, you should find out who directed it, then explore that director’s work, read interviews by them and watch any behind the scenes material you can find. You...
by Travis Mills | Dec 30, 2017 | Blood Country, Cornbread Cosa Nostra
No Rest for the Wild A Look Back at 2017 I’d be lying if I said it isn’t hard to look back on this year and put it in perspective. But these words now are important however subjective they might be, if only to be read years down the line by me or anyone...
by Travis Mills | Aug 16, 2017 | Uncategorized
Filmmakers don’t read enough. There’s a shameful lack of curiosity in most of my peers. Why are they not pouring through the biographies and interviews of their favorite directors? Why do they not have subscriptions to the last remaining film magazines? We...
