Lexx Truss is an LA based writer, director, and producer from Greensboro, North Carolina. In 2015, he graduated from Point Park University’s Cinema & Digital Arts program in Pittsburgh and then participated in the Cannes Short Film Corner with a film he produced in The Creative Mind Group’s “We Made It In Toronto” Filmmaker Institute program at TIFF. In 2019, he was declared the Grand Prize Winner of the Emerge! Filmmaking Lab through Little Ugly, Ghetto Film School, Vimeo and Dolby for his short psychological thriller, Zarina. In 2020, the release of G U M P T I O N, a commercial Lexx directed for Triumph Motorcycles led to him and his team receiving various awards and recognition in “Best Advertising” and “Best Commercial” categories. He later served as a writer/producer for Daily Content at ATTN:, producing 100+ videos within a year and a half. Afterwards, Lexx developed, directed and produced $unny Daze, a short music documentary for Red Bull Records through Red Bull Media House. Regardless of format and genre, his unconventional directorial style aims to challenge societal norms while diving into intimate depths of the human condition.
Lexx is also establishing his production company, Truss Films, in honor of his family’s history, legacy, and as a reminder for him and filmmakers he supports to stay true to themselves through their art.