Joseph Merhi

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Joseph Toufik Merhi born October 23 1953 in Syria is an indie film director and producer In 1984 along with fellow director Richard Pepin Merhi founded the production company City Lights which changed name a few years after to PM Entertainment The company was sold in 2000 and closed soon after Before entering the movie industry Merhi was the owner of several pizzerias located in the Las Vegas Nevada area So far he has directed a total of 32 movies and produced more than 100 He has produced many movies He is well known for his action scenes involving car chases and big explosions His last directed movie was Executive Target 1997 After that he decided to leave the director chair and slowly moved on as a producerexecutive producer of straighttoDVD movies until he returned to direct Oranges 2008 ten years after his last effort Description above from the Wikipedia article Joseph Merhi licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia