Name	Joe Francis
Height
Naionality	American
Date of Birth	April 1, 1973
Place of Birth	Laguna Beach, California
Famous for	Girls Gone Wild, Guys Gone Wild

Joseph R. "Joe" Francis (born April 1, 1973) to Raymond and Maria Francis, is the founder of Mantra Films, Inc., which produces the Girls Gone Wild and Guys Gone Wild DVD series.

Francis grew up in Laguna Beach, California, USA. He has three sisters; Babette, two years older; Caroline, a year and a half younger; and Christina, 10 years younger.

Francis attended Our Lady Queen of Angels Catholic School. He graduated from the University of Southern California in 1995 with a degree in Business Administration. He also completed USC’s Entrepreneur Program.

After graduating, Francis worked in various capacities in television production, eventually landing a job as production assistant for TV series Real TV, which aired footage of unusual events not routinely covered by mainstream network news at the time. While working at Real TV, Francis learned of a compilation video which was popular with the production staff containing footage that was considered too extreme for network TV viewers, including those of Real TV. Francis believed that there were commercial possibilities with a video of that kind and edited the video tape and named it Banned from Television, which featured (among other things), a woman being struck by a speeding train. He used a business direct-marketing plan he created in college and sold individual video cassettes of the title.