Virginia Travers
Virginia Travers, Producer. Virginia Travers was born in
the San Francisco Bay area and was educated both in
California and Great Britain. Virginia moved to Spain’s Costa
del Sol in 1980, where she opened her own Art Gallery and
taught drama at a local rural High School. Upon returning to
California in the 1990s, she got her first job working as
Macaulay Culkin’s double and joined the Screen Actors Guild.
Since then, she has worked on over 30 films and TV shows.
She considers herself fortunate to have worked closely with
Directors Francis Ford Coppola, Tim Burton, Woody Allen,
John Carpenter and Mark Forestor. As a stand in and for
rehearsals, where she learned what the director needs to set
the scene.
Recently, Virginia lent her production coordinating talent to the French television show “L’ Amerique dans tous ses Etats.” With her interest in producing, she started Lunaventure as a development and management company. Still active in the film industry Virginia’s most recent credits include Woody Allen’s “Blue Jasmine” and Tim Burton’s “Big Eyes.” Currently she is focusing on writing and development and has co-penned 4 screenplays and 2 teleplays. . In 2020 her TV Screenplay VORTEX PAX won best script at the Four Corners Festival in New Mexico and in 2021 her screenplay together with CV Herst THREE OF A KIND won best tv screenplay in the Five Continents International Film Festival in Venezuela and was a finalist in several other Festivals. . In 2021 Together with CV Herst and Tom Walsh the screenplay PAYBACK IN MANILA has won Three Best Screenplay Awards Festival . In 2014 she ventured to the Philippines to work on developing a teaser trailer for the screenplay CEBU, based on the award winning novel by Fil/Am writer Peter Bacho.
Part of it can be seen in the Music video FAITHLESS by MiG Ayesa. Which was selected for the Diwa International Filipino Film Festival in Seattle.