Jozef G. Lenders immigrated to the USA as a child with his parents from the Netherlands. At the age of 7 Joe received his first camera, a Kodak 120 film camera with built-in flash. When Joe was 9 he showed such talent with the camera that he took over making the family movies on 8mm film. The first time Joe was handed a movie camera he knew his future was in media and motion pictures..

Jozef Lenders majored in broadcast communications at Miami Dade College. The college lacked a TV studio so he started his career in radio as a Miami area radio personaility and announcer. Moonlighting as a nightclub DJ and recording studio engineer in the disco era, Joe met many music industry executives and artists that encouraged him to try his hand at making music videos. From that point filmmaking was Joe's passion.

In the 80's Joe married and moved to Florida's safer and cleaner West coast . There he founded 21st Century Video, one of the areas first video production companies. Then in 1984 Joe joined the executive staff at WFTX-TV to help build and grow the areas first independent TV station.

1n 1988 Joe was recruited by TotalREACH, Inc. to start a new cable advertising company. Just one year later a substantial cash performance bonus from TotalREACH launched Joe's new venture, VIDEX Corporation. VIDEX was a multi-faceted corporation creating 3D Animation, video and film productions that dominated the local industry. 

In 1997 Joe sold his company to National Media Services, Inc. and accepted a position as Vice President and Creative Services Director of that company.

In 2004 Joe once again struck out on his own and left National Media to form 1Pro Media, Inc. a film & video production company. 1Pro Media, Inc. is a new media company that also broadcasts a government subsidized cable television station (Cape-TV) on channel 98 on Comcast Cable. Joe also oversees the operations of Gulfcoast Film Partners, LLC as its Managing Director.  Joe's first self produced movie "Terror Inside" (2008) is out on DVD and available at all rental outlets and most major retailers.Joe also was instrumental in other movies such as "Bikini Beach Race" (1991) and "Chill Out" (2004).

Along with his businesses, Jozef Lenders teaches high school filmmaking part time and gives seminars on the business of filmmaking around Florida. He is married to wife Lora since 1984 who has two children, Robert and Anita.