TRAVELFILM COMPANY is a multiple prize-winning production company dedicated to dynamic and engaging cultural documentaries offering unique perspectives on music, art, architecture, and the preservation of our natural environment.

Our films cover cross-cultural themes reaching to Japan, North America, and Europe, working with the latest film and video technologies, and focusing on the latest research and scholarship.

"Offbeat - satisfyingly personal and idiosyncratic." - Variety

THE INLAND SEA is the celebrated version of Donald Richie's classic travel memoir, (U.S.-Japan). The film captures visions of a rapidly fading "old Japan."

DVORAK AND AMERICA is the first U.S. - Czech Television co-production, and uses new scholarship to explore Antonin Dvorak's relationship with his African-American students in New York.

The EMMY-nominted THE LAST WRIGHT is the only project in any medium to record the history of the Park Inn and the City National Bank commission of Frank Lloyd Wright.

"Cut sharply, with telling close-ups." - Classical Music on the Web, U.K.

We are experienced in 35 and 16mm film, and the latest HD cameras to create timeless looks, collaborating with esteemed cinematographers Hiro Narita (Never Cry Wolf, Gilmore Girls, The Last Waltz), Allen Moore (Emmy Winning National Parks, The Civil War), and Antonin Chundela (Devcatko, In Search of Janacek).

Music scores feature original work by Toru Takemitsu, Maurice Peress and the Prague Radio Orchestra.Our scholars are among the most prestigious in their fields: Gerald Early, Josef Svorecky, Bruce Brooks Peiffer, Donald Richie. Co-production partners include PBS, Czech Television, AVRO Netherlands), Ronin Films (Australia), RM Associates (U. K.), Janus Films, PBS Video. Our films have been shown on international television, and are available on DVD internationally.

We have screened at over one hundred film festivals, including Sundance, San Francisco, London, Leipzig, Sydney, Melbourne, Auckland, Bombay, Golden Prague. Funders include the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Japan Foundation.

TRAVELFILM COMPANY continues to use film to bring attention to vanishing landscapes, artistic adventure and the spirit of cultural exchange.