Jason Giampietro

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Jason Giampietro

Jason "Jay" Giampietro is a writer, director, actor and musician whose short films have played the New York Film Festival, BAMcinemaFest, the Montclair Film Festival, the Sidewalk Film Festival, the Nitehawk Shorts Festival, and the Maryland Film Festival. His short film Hernia won the 2015 Hammer to Nail Summer Shorts contest and he made his acting debut in the feature Stinking Heaven, which was …

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PavementsPavements · 2025
Pavements
★ 6.72025
MovieComedyMusic
'90s indie-rock band Pavement reunites for their sold-out 2022 tour. But as preparations get underway, surreal tributes emerge: an off-Broadway musical adaptation of their songs, a museum devoted entirely to the band’s legacy, and a shamelessly awards-baiting Hollywood biopic.
Golden ExitsGolden Exits · 2018
Golden Exits
★ 5.82018
MovieDrama
An intersectional narrative of two families in Brooklyn and the unraveling of unspoken unhappiness that occurs when a young foreign girl spending time abroad upsets the balance on both sides.
Candy RidesCandy Rides · 2012
Candy Rides
★ 6.02012
MovieComedy
A painter charms an elusive young woman while bicycling in Brooklyn.
I Will Paint Your SpiritI Will Paint Your Spirit · 2013
I Will Paint Your Spirit
2013
MovieRomance
An abstract portrait painter is enchanted by a woman whose images he discovers after buying a laptop from a shadester in a city park.
Stinking HeavenStinking Heaven · 2015
Stinking Heaven
★ 4.62015
MovieDrama
A black-as-tar comedy charting the dissolution of a commune for sober living in suburban 1990s New Jersey.
Joel Calls Indie Film Type DudesJoel Calls Indie Film Type Dudes · 2020
Joel Calls Indie Film Type Dudes
2020
MovieComedy
Joel Potrykus calls fellow indie filmmakers during the pandemic crisis to check in and see how they're holding up.
Notes on an AppearanceNotes on an Appearance · 2018
Notes on an Appearance
★ 5.32018
MovieDramaMystery
A young man disappears amid talk of violence and demagoguery, leaving behind an obscure cache of letters, postcards, and notebooks.
HellawareHellaware · 2013
Hellaware
★ 5.22013
MovieComedy
Aspiring but less than ambitious photographer Nate clumsily navigates the New York City art world in a post-grad haze, waiting for his breakthrough project to fall into his lap. During a drug-fueled wormhole through the annals of YouTube, Nate discovers his next subjects when an arbitrary click lands him on a crude music video by the Young Torture Killaz—an Insane Clown Posse knock-off group of jaded Delaware teens with a lot to scream about—and the inspiration (and exploitation) flows

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