His work includes Cold Feet (1999), The Jury (2002) and Omagh (2004) for television and Vantage Point (2008), Endgame (2009), Dredd (2012) and City of Tiny Lights (2016) for cinema.
[1] Travis became interested in film-making late in life, inspired by Alan Clarke, Costa Gavras and Frank Capra.
In 2003, Paul Greengrass sent Travis the script to Omagh—a dramatisation of the Omagh bombing that he co-wrote with Guy Hibbert—after seeing his work on The Jury and Henry VIII.
[5] The next year it won the British Academy Television Award for Best Single Drama, which Travis shared with the producers.
[7] His first studio film, Vantage Point, opened in the United States in February 2008 to the number one box office spot.