Gabriel Foster Prior is a filmmaker specializing as an editor and director. His first feature film as a director, The Bystanders, premiered at the Austin Film Festival, where it was nominated for the Comedy Vanguard Award and selected as a staff pick.
 

The film won several awards, including Best Sci-Fi Feature at the Berlin Independent Film Festival and Audience Awards at the Sydney Sci-Fi Film Festival and Sci-Fi London Film Festival. Gabriel was also nominated for the Best New Filmmaker Award at the Boston Sci-Fi Film Festival, the longest-running genre festival in the US. SFX magazine praised the film with a 4-star review, stating, "It shows enough imagination to suggest that Foster Prior is headed for the big time." Total Film also gave it a 4-star review, calling The Bystanders an “Inventive Brit-com with style, charm, and wit."
 

Gabriel has directed short films such as A Short Film About Hats - which premiered at the Fest New Directors Festival, Binoculars - premiering at Cinecity Brighton Film Festival and The Drunk - which won Best Director at the Ealing Film Festival and was called "5 minutes of funny" by BBC film critic James King. He also directed the comedy sketch The Seann Factor for Seann Walsh's Edinburgh Comedy Award nominated show The Lie In King.
 

Graduating from Edinburgh University with a BA in Film & TV, Gabriel began his career editing short films that achieved festival success and a BAFTA New Talent Award nomination. He has since been the lead editor on over a dozen feature films, including Lucid -- which premiered at the Edinburgh Film Festival, and The Wall of Mexico - which premiered on the opening night of South by Southwest. He continues to work as an editor while developing new projects to direct.