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 distributed by Factory 25.