Joseph Frantz

Joe Frantz
Joe Frantz of the CKY Crew
Born	Joseph Frantz (1976-07-17) July 17, 1976 (age 40) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Occupation	Filmmaker, author

Joseph "Joe" Frantz (born July 17, 1976) is an American filmmaker and author. He is a director, producer, cinematographer, and member of Bam Margera's CKY Crew. His body of works includes the CKY Video Series, Haggard The Movie,MTV reality television shows such as Viva La Bam and Bam's Unholy Union, the Jackass motion pictures, and music videos for bands such as HIM, CKY,Clutch, and The 69 Eyes. Frantz is also a collaborative co-author of the book Dreamseller, which he wrote with MTV / Jackass personality Brandon Novak. Frantz is also a television documentary producer and cinematographer whose works have aired on National Geographic, The History Channel, Animal Planet, Discovery Channel, and The Travel Channel.

Joe Frantz is noted for serving as cinematographer for the CKY Video Series, a predecessor to the Jackass franchise. The series was directed by Bam Margera and starred the CKY Crew and popular extreme sports icons such as Tony Hawk. As director of photography for CKY 3 and CKY4, Frantz introduced high production quality 35-millimeter and 16-millimeter film sequences to the action sports genre, which was then primarily shot on various low quality videotape formats. Among the most noted film segments in the CKY Videos are the "Shopping Cart Slams" and the "HeMan BeastMan" music video for Gnar kill (for which Frantz also crafted the stop-motion animation sequences).