Alex Steyermark

Alex Steyermark has directed the feature films, Prey for Rock & Roll, One Last Thing…,  Losers Take All and documentary The 78 Project Movie, which have been acclaimed at numerous US and International film festivals including Sundance, TIFF (Toronto), BFI London, Tribeca, Frameline, Outfest and SXSW, and are distributed throughout the world.

He is a creator, producer and the director of the groundbreaking music documentary web series, The 78 Project, which was an official selection at the inaugural Cannes Cross Media Corner and the British Film Institute's Power to the Pixel Cross Media Forum, was presented at the Library of Congress, and has been hailed as a “cross-platform classic” by Filmmaker Magazine. 

Prior to directing, Steyermark distinguished himself as a film music supervisor and film music producer, working on films by Spike Lee, Ang Lee, Paul Schrader, Jonathan Demme and Robert Rodriguez, among many others, and with a wide array of recording artists (David Bowie, Public Enemy, Michael Jackson, Dave Grohl and more).  These include such major studio and indie films as Do the Right Thing, Malcolm X, He Got Game, The Ice Storm, I Know What You Did Last Summer, The Boxer, and the cult hit musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch, among many more. Steyermark is a Legacy member of the Guild of Music Supervisors.

Steyermark’s work in music for drama extends into opera, where he is the recipient of two ASCAP Writer's Awards for his librettos to the opera, Red Rubber, and to the children's opera, A Lot To Keep. He also directed the critically acclaimed world premiere of Red Rubber in Antwerp, Belgium, when that city served as Cultural Capital of Europe.

Steyermark started his filmmaking career as an editor. He has taught Digital Storytelling at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, and since 2005 has been an adjunct professor in Columbia University’s Film MFA Program, where he is the founder of the ASCAP/Columbia Film Scoring Workshop.