Eli Cross
Director
Biography
Eli Cross (Bryn Pryor) became a filmmaker at the age of nine with a stop-motion epic that pitted Micronauts against the local alien villains in Kenner's Mos Eisley Cantina playset. Apache Junction, Arizona was a dangerous place to be a toy in 1979.
In the intervening decades, Eli has directed just about everything you can point a camera at, including four extremely bad films for Roger Corman's Concorde/New Horizons Studios, creating utterly forgettable moments with stars like Eric Roberts and Martin Sheen. His dramatic feature "Poker" won Best Drama at the 2000 IFP East film festival, and Best Original Screenplay at the 2001 Angel City Film Festival.
His most recent projects include the horror indie "iKllr" (as the Director of Photography), set for theatrical release in 2015, the steampunk western "Cowboys & Engines," starring Richard Hatch, Walter Koenig and Malcolm McDowell, and "X-Rated," Showtime's in-depth documentary about the greatest movies to come out of the adult industry.
His current projects include expanding "Cowboys & Engines" into a complete feature film, finishing the follow-up to "X-Rated," and writing and directing "Diminuendo," a science fiction romance scheduled to be shot in early 2016.
Filmography
Just One of the Guys
as Student (uncredited) 1985
Star Wars XXX: A Porn Parody
as Grand Moff Tarkin 2012
Scream XXX: A Porn Parody
as Eli Cross 2011
Man of Steel XXX: An Axel Braun Parody
as Lex Luthor 2013
Home for the Holidays
2022
Upload
as Interrogator 2007
The Pornographer
as Robert (nonsex) (as Bryn Pryor) 2014
Black Rayne
2009
Stalker
2008
Spark
2021
The Life
as Laszlo 2002
Kayden's First Time
2007
I Love You, You're Fired
as Dr. Brenn 2021