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The Saddest Boy in the World

Timothy Higgins is the saddest boy on Earth, and he’s getting ready to hang himself at his ninth birthday party.

  • Canada
  • 2006, 14 min
  • Director: Jamie Travis
  • Director of photography: Amy Belling
  • Editor: Kaspm Schneider
  • Screenplay: Jamie Travis
  • Music: Alfredo Santa Ana
  • Cast: Benjamin B. Smith, Kirsten Robek, Hailey Conner
  • Contacts: Jamie Travis
  • Producer: Amy Belling, Jamie Travis
  • Production: Modern Family Productions


Jamie Travis

Jamie Travis (b. 1979, Canada) is a script writer, producer and designer. He graduated in film from the University of British Columbia with the short work Why the Anderson Children Didn’t Come to Dinner (2003). His other projects include the trilogy Patterns (2005), Patterns 2 and Patterns 3 (2006) and The Saddest Boy In The World (2006). In 2012, he directed a feature comedy For a Good Time, Call ... and last year he created a series Pretending (Faking It, 2013).