Ben Foster

Ben Foster (born June 7, 1984) is an American film director and producer. He has directed two feature films, Strings (2012), awarded on the US Festival circuit, and Time Trap (2017), held its world premiere at the Seattle International Film Festival in May 2017. Life and career Foster was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and raised in Austin, Texas. During highschool he attended classes at the Austin School of Film He further pursued his education at The Maine Media Workshops, where he studied under actor Barry Primus. 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.