Travis Rummel
Travis Rummel is a filmmaker and a partner with Ben Knight in Felt Soul Media, which makes documentaries. The duo is known for thoughtful and beautiful films about the sport of fishing, and they have gained attention at festivals worldwide. Their film DamNation premiered in March 2014 at SXSW in Austin, Texas, and also screened at Mountainfilm in 2014. The documentary, produced in conjunction with Patagonia, explores dam removal and restoring free-flowing American rivers. The project received a Mountainfilm Commitment Grant in 2011. Felt Soul Media has also created the films Eastern Rises (2010), Red Gold (2008) and Unicorn Sashimi (2012), all of which screened at Mountainfilm. Rummel and Knight also co-directed Senior:82 Winters in Telluride and Kamchatka Steelhead Project (both at Mountainfilm 2016), 120:Tarpon Season (Mountainfilm 2017), The Long Time (Mountainfilm 2018) Life of Pie and A Thousand Casts (Mountainfilm 2019).