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Jon Chu


Jon Chu

Director Jon Chu is a young director known for Step Up 2 and Step Up 3D. An award-winning USC film school grad, he started making movies in the fifth grade. Chu is also director of the untitled Justin Bieber movie.

About Jon Chu

Known for: Directing Justin Bieber's 'Never Say Never' and the street dancing movies 'Step Up 2' and 'Step Up 3D'.

Jon Chu is an American movie director, and graduate of USC's School of Cinema-Television. Growing up, Chu's family ran their own restaurant, Chef Chu's, and traveled on vacations to locations and places around the country and Europe. While on these trips, in the fifth grade Chu was in charge of filming all the home videos. But instead of merely shooting the family with the London Bridge or Eifel Tower, he shot their family vacation as a Sci-Fi thriller or murder mystery.

At USC, Chu was honored with many filmmaking awards, including the the Princess Grace Award, the Dore Schary Award, and the Jack Nicholson directing award. Chu also served as the Student Body President during his time at USC. With these accolades, Chu's student short, 'When the Kids are Away' (2002), got the attention a talent agency who put him on a fast track to directing.

Chu's first movie was 'Step Up 2: The Streets' (2008), the sequel to the popular street dancing romance drama 'Step Up' (2006). Chu next directed the third movie in the series, and the first to be shot in 3D, 'Step Up 3D' (2010).

The next big project for Chu was the Justin Bieber 3D movie, 'Never Say Never'. Initially taken by director Davis Guggenheim ('An Inconvenient Truth'), Chu took the reins on the popular teen pop sensation's movie which he revealed would be similar to a documentary about Bieber's life and rapid rise to fame. In his big screen acting debut, Justin Bieber starred as himself, and the movie featured footage from his 2010 concert tour.

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