​Gabriel Foster Prior is a director and editor whose work has earned critical acclaim and international festival recognition.
 

His debut feature, The Bystanders, premiered at the Austin Film Festival, where it was nominated for the Comedy Vanguard Award. It later won Audience Awards at the London and Sydney Sci-Fi Film Festivals, earned a Best New Filmmaker nomination at the Boston Sci-Fi Film Festival, secured a UK cinema release, and was acquired by Disney+ for streaming.
 

The film received strong reviews, with Total Film awarding it four stars and praising its "style, charm, and wit," while The Guardian described it as having “a strong strand of UK comedy in the DNA, recalling material like Red Dwarf and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.”
 

A graduate of the University of Edinburgh with a BA in Film & TV, Gabriel began his career editing short films that earned festival accolades, including a nomination for a BAFTA New Talent Award.

He has since edited over twenty feature films, including Lucid, which premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, The Wall of Mexico, which opened South by Southwest, and three films from the popular Rise of the Footsoldier crime franchise.
 

As a director, Gabriel has also 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.”​