Blair Treu


Blair Treu is an American film director. He directed Little Secrets and Wish Upon a Star. More recently he has teamed up with Brigham Young University professor Stephen F. Duncan, KBYU-TV and BYU TV to create Real Families, Real Answers. He was also a codirector of BYUtv's Granite Flats. He graduated from BYU with a bachelor's degree in theatre in 1985.

Career

Treu is the writer and director of Meet the Mormons, a feature-length documentary produced by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that was released October 10, 2014. He previously directed Called to Serve, a film about LDS Missionaries, created with the same general format, in about 1985.
Treu's work includes directing feature films, television, documentaries, and commercials for over 30 years, working work with a number of Academy and Emmy award-winning actors. He began his career at the Walt Disney Company as an assistant to Marty Katz, senior vice president of Television/Feature Production. A year later Treu ventured into script development where he supervised script coverage for the ABC Disney Sunday Movie until 1987. Six years later, after directing a string of documentaries and commercials, his feature directorial debut came in 1993 with Just Like Dad, starring Wallace Shawn and Nick Cassavetes. This would be the first of three films created for the Disney Channel, along with The Paper Brigade and Wish Upon a Star.
Treu later directed 18 episodes of Chicken Soup for the Soul, a TV series based on the popular books. These episodes included Shelley Long, Paula Abdul, Edward Asner, Stacy Keach, Sheena Easton, Ernest Borgnine, Ray Walston, and Andrew Dice Clay. Simultaneous to that series, Treu directed The Brainiacs.com. From 2000 to 2007, Treu produced and directed Little Secrets.

Filmography