Biography

Travis Mathews is a writer/director/editor. Informed with a Masters in Counseling Psychology and a background in documentary, Mathews is a self-taught filmmaker based in San Francisco.

In 2009 he started an ongoing documentary series called "In Their Room" about gay men and their bedrooms as sanctuaries. The first of several episodes was filmed in San Francisco, followed by Berlin (2010) and then London (2013). Ira Sachs ("Little Men") calls the series, "deeply intimate" and credits Mathews with "a kind and empathetic eye as a filmmaker and a new voice needed to tell our stories."

Mathews collaborated with James Franco to make the docufiction, "Interior. Leather Bar." in 2013. Of the film, The New York Times said it was "one of the sharpest, best surprises" of the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. The film screened in over 75 festivals internationally, including Berlinale and Rotterdam, and was released theatrically by Strand Releasing in early 2014.

In 2017, Mathews premiered the narrative feature, "Discreet", (Berlinale, SFIFF), a startling genre film about one man's unresolved trauma. "Discreet" was sold internationally and had a domestic release in the summer of 2018.
- IMDb mini biography by: Travis Mathews

President of the Queer Palm jury at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival.