Joseph Kahn was born in Pusan, South Korea. After attending NYU Film School for a year, he dropped out to direct low budget music videos for gangster rappers. This lead to a celebrated twenty-five-year run that’s included hundreds of award-winning international commercials and billions of music video views. He has won multiple Grammys, MTV VMAs, Clios, Emmys, and honored with lifetime achievement (The Icon Award) by the UK Music Video Awards. Artists Kahn has directed videos for include Taylor Swift, Eminem, Britney Spears, Dr. Dre, Backstreet Boys, U2, Janet Jackson, George Michael, Wu-Tang Clan, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, Shakira, and Rihanna. In 2011, his self-financed independent film starring Josh Hutcherson,
Detention, premiered at the South by Southwest Film Festival. It was bought by Sony Pictures and released in 2012 after winning multiple audience and jury awards at film festivals across the world. In 2015, he released
Power/Rangers, a satirical self financed “fan film” starring James Van Der Beek and Katee Sackhoff that exploded across the internet, gathering tens of millions of views in a single day and sparking global news coverage.