Jonathan McHugh — Is a producer, director and music supervisor who has produced a wide array of documentaries and feature films starring top talent such as Justin Long, Kim Catrall, Zoe Saldana, Britney Spears, Justin Bieber, Snoop Dogg, Danny Trejo, Sarah Brightman, Janis Joplin, Paul Sorvino, and many more.
The two newest films he directed for KEW Media; “Cosplay Universe” and “Long Live Rock…Celebrate the Chaos” will be released in 2020 and are currently screening at film festivals around the world. McHugh has produced TV shows for CMT, Fuse and Discovery Channel and many more. Other notable film projects Include producing the music documentaries “City of Ali” and Sly Stone doc. “In Search of Sly” as well as music supervising the Indy feature “Butter”
He has produced a number of award-winning documentaries including “Janis: Little Girl Blue”, “We Are X,” “Image Revolution,” and She Makes Comics” just to name a few.
Formerly as Sr. VP at IDJ/Universal Music he co-produced the film “Justin Bieber’s Never Say Never” (the 2nd highest grossing documentary of all time) and the Sony Classics documentary “The Greatest Movie Ever Sold.” Before that McHugh spent eight years as Vice President of Visual Media at the Jive/BMG where he started his production career by helping to launch Zomba Films. There he co-produced the film “Crossroads” (Zoe Saldana, Justin Long & Britney Spears) as well as soundtracks for films including Nickelodeon’s “Wild Thornberry’s” “Jimmy Neutron.”
Prior to that as Vice President of Soundtracks at New Line Cinema McHugh co-produced many platinum and gold soundtracks such as “The Wedding Singer”, “Rush Hour,” “Austin Powers”, “Blade” “Mortal Combat 2”, “Love Jones & Lost In Space.”
McHugh has music supervised over 75 feature films including the “Saw” film series “Blindspotting” Son of Morning” (Heather Graham & Danny Glover), “Hot Bot (Directed by the Polish Brothers), “Sundown” & “West of Memphis” (Produced by Peter Jackson/Directed by Amy Berg)
McHugh is PGA documentary Juror/ member and a Board member/ founding member of the Guild of Music Supervisors.
