Travis Wilkerson is an American independent film director, screenwriter, producer and performance artist. A chance meeting in Havana with the legendary Cuban filmmaker Santiago Alvarez changed the course of Wilkerson's life. His internationally recognized body of filmmaking crosses boundaries with documentary and fiction, performance, and activism. At the epicenter of his work is the ongoing search for meeting points of aesthetic eloquence and political engagement, produced with an absolute modesty of material resources, as self-sufficiently as possible. In 2015, Sight & Sound called Wilkerson “the political conscience of American cinema.”