Travis Wilkerson born in 1969 Denver is an American documentary film director screenwriter producer and performance artist Named the political conscience of 21st century American independent cinema by Sight Sound magazine Wilkerson is heavily influenced by the Third Cinema movement and known for films that combine maximalist aesthetics and radical politics This is owed in part to his meeting Cuban filmmaker Santiago Álvarez Following the meeting Wilkerson made the feature documentary Accelerated UnderDevelopment about that meeting and he was heavily involved in the rediscovery of Alvarezs films