Eli Cross

Mainstream work In 2012, under his birth name Bryn Pryor, Cross was the director of photography on the mainstream horror film iKllr.

In 2013, Cross, along with producers James Deen and Charles Mead, mounted a successful Kickstarter campaign that raised nearly $115,000 to finance a short film called Cowboys & Engines. Described as a "Steampunk Western," the short starred Malcolm McDowell, Walter Koenig and Richard Hatch. According to the film's website filming was completed in early June, 2013, and the film's trailer premiered at the 2013 Comic-Con. The film had its cast & crew premiere at the Landmark Theater on January 14, 2015. The official Cowboys & Engines trailer was released online in February 2015, and according to the film's blog, Cowboys & Engines had been accepted by several film festivals to be screened in 2015/2016.

In February 2015, Showtime premiered the Pryor-directed X-Rated: The Greatest Adult Movies of All Time, a documentary profiling a handful of major adult films from Deep Throat in the 1970s through the modern era. In 2016, Pryor, along with Sarah Goldberger co-wrote the screenplay for Diminuendo, a feature film starring several actors from Cowboys & Engines including Hatch (in his final film role before his death) and Koenig. Also starring in the film were Chloe Dykstra, Leah Cairns and Gigi Edgley.

Diminuendo had its world premiere at the 20th Annual Sarasota Film Festival on April 20, 2018

Personal life Cross is married to actress and filmmaker Casey Calvert.

Awards 2007 AVN Award – Best Director, Video – (Corruption) 2007 AVN Award – Best Screenplay (with Alvin Edwards) – (Corruption) 2007 AVN Award – Best Non-Sex Performance (as Bryn Pryor) – (Corruption) 2008 AVN Award – Best Screenplay (with Alvin Edwards) – (Upload) 2012 AVN Award – Best Cinematography (with Axel Braun) – (Spider-Man XXX: A Porn Parody) 2015 XBIZ Award – Director of the Year, Feature Release – (Wetwork) 2015 AVN Hall of Fame 2021 AVN Award – Best Directing, Comedy (with Casey Calvert) – (Cougar Queen: A Tiger King Parody)