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PLEASE READ BELOW FOR JEFF’S HIGHLIGHTS FROM 2011.

NOW IN POST-PRODUCTION
Jeff is director/editor for an ongoing documentary web series called Life at Musser.

Musser is the name for the international student resident house on the Ursinus College campus in Collegeville, Pennsylvania. At this house, students from across the world live together.

From 2001 through 2003, Jeff lived in Musser and began recording life with a Hi8 camcorder for a documentary about living in Musser, preserving a wide array of experiences with residents…including adventures off campus.

This was a time before it was common to have a cell phone and prior to YouTube and Facebook’s existence.

The documentary was never completed…until now in a web series format. This web series also celebrates Jeff’s 10th year of making films.

From over 200 hours of footage, these images are Jeff’s personal “cave drawings” of early filmmaking. For the film buffs reading this, imagine Frederick Wiseman meets Ross McElwee and Stranded in Canton.
Many more episodes will be added.

To watch the first 21 episodes, go here:
LIFE AT MUSSER: WEB SERIES

NOW IN PRODUCTION
“Untitled Mark Documentary”
A mesmerizing epic about Jeff’s best friend since kindergarten who underwent a profound physical transformation.

NOW IN DEVELOPMENT
“Untitled WWII-POW Documentary”
A personal, historical portrait following the 93 year-old World War II Army veteran Harvey Conn in the present day, as he recounts the journey of his life: from growing up with Native Americans in the Michigan wilderness…to Harvey’s capture in North Africa by German forces, and subsequent imprisonment in Germany during WWII. Jeff’s known Harvey since May 2010.

NOW IN DEVELOPMENT
DEEP HOUSE
Thomas O’Keefe, Jeff’s film school classmate directed Jeff as an actor in 5 short fiction films while they both attended film school. Most notable, Night in Space was a 16mm science-fiction short film about a man and a woman living on a space station in the distant future. Jeff co-starred with Martha Stephens (acclaimed independent director for Passenger Pigeons). O’Keefe is now writing a full-length, original screenplay about a detective. Jeff will act in the leading role as the detective.

NOVEMBER 2011
NOW SUBMITTING TO FILM FESTIVALS: King David: An Introduction
Directed/produced/shot by Jeff M. Giordano, this mysterious experimental-documentary illuminates David, an ex-gangster from NYC…whom Jeff met in 2006 while doing research for his thesis film at the University of North Carolina: School of the Arts.

A full-length documentary is in development.

OCTOBER 2011
The Noyes Museum in Oceanville, NJ (just outside of Atlantic City) screened Jeff’s first independent film made outside of film school — Among Garbage & Flowers (2005), and The Sheriff (2007), Jeff’s 5-time award-winning thesis film. Shannon Clapper (featured in Among Garbage & Flowers) was in attendance with Jeff in front of a packed house of over 60 people. Spirited Q & A’s followed each screening!

OCTOBER 2011
Film Festival Premiere of The Tao of Bear Creek at the 11th New Jersey State Cape May Film Festival in Cape May, NJ.
Jeff was director-producer-cinematographer-editor for the film.

This short documentary features Erik Nepsky, and fuses the teachings of Taoism with the Bear Creek Preserve in Telluride, Colorado. Erik is an Eastern philosophy professor, 2nd degree Kenpo Karate black belt, and a Telluride local for 37 years. Jeff’s known Erik since August 2007.

SEPTEMBER 2011
Television World Premiere for The Tao of Bear Creek on public television station Plum TV in Telluride, Colorado. The film screened for one week before Werner Herzog’s renowned documentary Grizzly Man.