Alex LeMay

Alex LeMay is an award winning feature film and broadcast director. Over his 14-year career he has directed a number of acclaimed feature films as well as provided commercial media for some of the world's top-tier companies, including Johnson and Johnson, Starbuck's Coffee Company, CVS Pharmacies, Abbott Laboratories and Office Max. His award winning feature documentary, The Bulls of Suburbia, caught the eye of Universal Studios, for whom he produced and directed the bullfighting sequence for the Academy Award nominated film Seabiscuit. LeMay is currently in production on his third feature documentary, Conversations With the Enemy: a Dark Comedy of Opinion, which examines the relationship between Europe, the US and Islam.



DESERT BAYOU premiered in Southern Sidebar, a curated program at the world-renowned Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in Durham, North Carolina. LeMay has run and operated the Chicago-based motion picture company, Taproot Productions, since 1993. He represents the new breed of up-and-coming talent in the film and media production world and has positioned himself as a leader in new media development.