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Jon M. Chu is a feature film director of Touchstone Pictures’ Step Up 2 The Streets (2008), Step Up 3D (2010) and Paramount Picture’s Justin Bieber: Never Say Never (2011). Combining traditional narrative storytelling with the latest film technology, Chu has developed a style that has been described as both innovative and ambitious. Vanity Fair remarked that Chu is “hands down, the world’s pre-eminent living dance-off filmmaker.” Besides his feature films, Chu is active in the online entertainment world. He is the creator and writer of The Legion of Extraordinary Dancers, which is the number one original program for Hulu. The series, shown exclusively online, has been hailed as “groundbreaking” by the New York Times and “by a wide margin, the most beautifully filmed, elaborately staged web series in the history of the medium” in AdvertisingAge. With millions of hits on his YouTube channel and over 400,000 followers on Twitter, Chu’s success in the online space was recognized with the 2011 Digital Pioneer Emmy Award as well as AdAge’s Vanguard Award for outstanding web series. Chu is an alumnus of the University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television. While there, he won the Dore Schary Award presented by the Anti-Defamation League, the Jack Nicholson directing award, and was recognized as an honoree for the IFP/West program Project: Involve. Other honors include an MTV Movie award, a Teen Choice Award, and a speaking invitation to the world renowned TED Conference. Chu is currently in post on his most recent film, G.I. Joe: Retaliation starring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Bruce Willis, which will be released in theaters this summer.