Alex Turner is an award-winning director who has established himself as a filmmaker focused on an off-center vision of the world. He is perhaps best known for his work in the horror film genre, including the cult classic DEAD BIRDS.

Alex's short films CHUCK and DISPOSAL have been featured on both IFC and the SciFi Channel and have screened at well over thirty festivals around the world, including South by Southwest, Sitges, The Rhode Island International Film Festival, The Palm Springs International Film Festival, The San Francisco Independent Film Festival, and the San Sebastián Horror and Fantasy Film Festival. DISPOSAL was also shown as part of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's "New Directors Night" film series.

DEAD BIRDS, Alex's first feature, staring Michael Shannon, Henry Thomas, Isaiah Washington and Patrick Fugit, premiered at the 2004 Toronto International Film Festival where the LA Times called it a "richly imagined, genuinely suspenseful supernatural horror movie". Sony Pictures distributed.

Alex returned to the genre with RED SANDS, a psychological thriller from Sony Pictures/Stage 6 starring Shane West, Aldis Hodge, JK Simmons and Theo Rossi as American soldiers serving in Afghanistan just after the 2001 US invasion.

Alex has also been prolific in the advertising world, directing music videos and commercials for clients as diverse as GE, True Botanicals, PG&E, Atlantic Records, Sony/Columbia, Mab & Stoke, McDonald's, General Electric and Quaker State among others.