Benjamin A Rider was born in Harare Zimbabwe At the age of three he moved to South Africa for a year and then onto Israel for most of his childhood before moving to London England In 2012 whilst studying at Queen Mary University of London he produced his first professional short film Aquarius Mule 2013 That summer he filmed the micro budget feature film To Love Somebody 2014 which was edited as he completed his BA Hons in Film Studies He has since gone on to complete a total of seven microbudget feature films including the drama Forever Tomorrow 2016 the digital CinemaScope art house film Our Little Haven 2017 and the BMovie Suburban Coffin 2018