Gabriel Foster Prior

Gabriel Foster Prior is a director and editor whose work has garnered critical acclaim and festival recognition. His debut feature film, The Bystanders, premiered at the Austin Film Festival, where it was nominated for the Comedy Vanguard Award. The film went on to win the Audience Award at the London Sci-Fi Film Festival. SFX Magazine awarded it four stars, praising it as "showing enough imagination to suggest that Foster Prior is headed for the big time."


A graduate of Edinburgh University with a BA in Film & TV, Gabriel began his career editing short films that earned festival accolades, including a BAFTA New Talent Award nomination. Since then, he has edited over twenty feature films, including Lucid, which premiered at the Edinburgh Film Festival, and The Wall of Mexico, which opened South by Southwest.


As a director, Gabriel has helmed several short films, including A Short Film About Hats (Fest New Directors Festival), Binoculars (Cinecity Brighton Film Festival), and The Drunk, which won Best Director at the Ealing Film Festival and was described by BBC film critic James King as "five minutes of funny."


Beyond its success at Austin, The Bystanders received multiple accolades, including Best Sci-Fi Feature at the Berlin Independent Film Festival and Audience Award at the Sydney Sci-Fi Film Festival. Gabriel was also nominated for Best New Filmmaker at the Boston Sci-Fi Film Festival. Total Film also awarded The Bystanders four stars, calling it "an inventive Brit-com with style, charm, and wit."

My areas of expertise:

Filmmaking