Travis Mills

Directing · Acting · Production · Writing

Born December 26, 1985, Quito, Ecuador

Travis Mills was born in Quito, Ecuador. He spent the majority of his early life abroad in Europe and Africa before returning to the United States. In the U.S., he settled in Arizona where he co-founded Running Wild Films in 2010 with playwright Gus Edwards. Since then, they have produced over 25 feature films and more than 100 short film projects. In 2020, he completed production on his most ambitious project yet: 12 feature-length Western films in 12 Months. The next year, he published a book which is available on Amazon about this experience titled The Making of 12 Westerns: Or How I Made a Dozen Movies During a Global Pandemic and Survived. During 2021, Mills also collaborated with producer Dallas Sonnier on the Gina Carano-starring Western, TERROR ON THE PRAIRIE. He collaborated again with Dallas Sonnier as one of the lead producers on the historical/fantasy TV series THE PENDRAGON CYCLE. During 2024, his screenplay THIEVES HIGHWAY was produced as a feature film starring Aaron Eckhart. Also during 2024, Mills directed and produced a new Western titled FRONTIER CRUCIBLE starring William H. Macy, Armie Hammer, and Thomas Jane.

Filmography

• 2026Confession — Producer
• 2026Run Hide Fight: Infidels — Officer Cole, Producer
• The Pendragon Cycle: Rise of the Merlin — Loeter, Producer
• 2025Frontier Crucible — Director, Producer
• 2025Killin' Jim Kelly — Executive Producer
• 2025The Death Rally — Crucified Surgeon, Director, Producer
• 2025Thieves Highway — Writer
• 2024The Legacy of the 12 Westerns — Director, Producer, Cinematography
• 2023The Five — Director, Writer, Producer
• 2022Terror on the Prairie — Gideon, Associate Producer
• 2021A Guide to Gunfighters of the Wild West — Baptized Gunfighter, Director, Producer, Cinematography, Editor
• 2021Bastard's Crossing — Director, Producer
• 2021Counting Bullets — Captured Comanchero, Director, Writer
• 2021Heart of the Gun — Dolan, Director, Writer, Producer
• 2021She was the Deputy's Wife — Director, Writer, Producer
• 2021Tales of the Natchez Trace — Director, Writer, Producer
• 2021Texas Red — Director, Writer, Producer
• 2021The Adventures of Bandit and Wild Wes — Wild Wes, Director, Writer, Producer
• 2021The New Frontier — He, Writer, Director, Producer, Editor
• 2021The Pleasant Valley War — Samuel Shull, Director, Writer, Producer, Cinematography, Editor
• 2021The Wilderness Road — Little Harpe, Director, Writer, Producer
• 2021The Woman Who Robbed the Stagecoach — Joe Boot, Director, Writer, Producer, Editor
• 201938,600 MPH — Producer
• 2019If These Porches Could Talk — Director, Writer, Producer
• 2019Silver Slipper — Director, Writer
• 2019Son of a Gun — Director, Writer, Producer
• 2019The Deadbeats — Gun Shop Owner, Director
• 2018Bride of Violence — Director, Writer
• 2018Cornbread Cosa Nostra — Director, Writer, Producer
• 2017Blood Country — Director, Writer, Producer
• 2017The Curse of the Dragon Sword — Producer
• 2017Tombstone Rashomon — Associate Producer, Casting
• 2016Durant's Never Closes — Director
• 2016Porches and Private Eyes — Director, Writer
• 2014Duel at the Mound — Director, Writer
• 2014Fyodor Dostoevsky's A Little Hero — Director, Writer, Producer
• 2014James Joyce's The Sisters — Director, Writer, Producer
• 2013Star Babies — Director
• 2012The Detectives Lover — Scott Miller, Director, Writer
• 2011The Big Something — Director
• Don't Forget Me Tomorrow — Director
• That's My Desire