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EXCLUSIVE: Hot off of winning the Best Live Action Short Film Oscar for Two Distant Strangers, Travon Free has inked a first look producing deal with Endeavor Content. Free wrote Two Distant Strangers and co-directed with Martin Desmond Roe. The Netflix short which stars Joey Bada$$, Andrew Howard and Zaria follows a…

Two Distant Strangers directors Travon Free and Martin Desmond Roe won their first Oscar for Best Live-Action Short tonight at the 93rd Academy Awards. In his acceptance speech, Free exclaimed that “God is good,” before launching into a statement on policing in America. “Today, the police will kill three people, and…

In the months after the death of George Floyd, the country started to take a hard look in the mirror. We asked: Was this a nation built on white supremacy? Do we police African-Americans differently? Were we excluding people from opportunities based on the color of their skin? Protestors hit the streets, athletes boyco…

Shot last fall, amidst the Covid-19 pandemic, Two Distant Strangers embraces elements of genre storytelling to accentuate the horrors of police violence in America, and the systemic racism that continues to feed it. Directed by Travon Free and Martin Desmond Roe, from a script by Free, the Oscar-contending…

Apple has asserted itself once again on the film side, winning an auction for an untitled Africa-set thriller that Idris Elba will star in. He will produce the film with Genre Films’ Simon Kinberg and Audrey Chon producing. Script was written by Emmy winner Travon Free (Black Monday), and is set in the action…

There have been "tense moments" during negotiations for a new WGA/ATA franchise agreement, and some of those moments have been among the agencies themselves, according to writer-producer Travon Free, a member of the guild's negotiating committee. "There's been some tense moments," he said on Larry Wilmore's latest…