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American film director and producer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ben Foster (born June 7, 1984) is an American film director and producer.[1]
Ben Foster | |
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Ben Foster (right) attending the 14th Annual Hollywood Awards Gala with Mark Dennis (left) and Olivia Draguicevich (center) | |
| Born | June 7, 1984 Kansas City, Missouri, United States |
| Occupation(s) | Film director, film producer |
| Years active | 2007–present |
He has directed two feature films, Strings (2012),[2] awarded on the US Festival circuit, and Time Trap (2017),[3] held its world premiere at the Seattle International Film Festival in May 2017.
Foster was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and raised in Austin, Texas. During highschool he attended classes at the Austin School of Film[4][5] He further pursued his education at The Maine Media Workshops, where he studied under actor Barry Primus.[6] He attended the Radio, Television, and Film program at The University of Texas at Austin, where he met Mark Dennis. The two began collaborating on a number of shorts, and ultimately began production on Strings during Foster's senior year of college.
Strings was directed by Foster and Dennis. They also share producing, and editing credits on the film.[7] Strings played a number of film festivals, including the Hollywood Film Festival and Austin Film Festival.[8] It won Audience Awards at the Breckenridge Film Festival, White Sands International Film Festival, and Silver City Film Festival. The film is distributed by The Orchard.
In 2015, Foster and Dennis re-teamed to make Time Trap, a time travel adventure film, described as being reminiscent of the early-80s adventure movies, following a group of kids into a cave where time passes differently inside than on the surface. Time Trap world premiered at the Seattle International Film Festival in May, 2017.[9][10]
Foster lives in Los Angeles, where he also produces and directs commercials.
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