Career
He is mainly active in Brazil and North America. He is currently a professor at Occidental College in Los Angeles and several other schools in Southern California. He has one son, named Giovanni Gieco, who is a writer, model and photographer.
He has been the director and first assistant director for numerous films.
He also produced and directed the documentary film Punks, one of, if not the first documentary covering the emergent Punk scene in São Paulo Paulo, in the late 1970s and early 1980s. A list of his better known works includes:
Chuck and Buck (2000) - Production Supervisor
Adios East Los (1999) - Assistant Director
Liar"s Poker (1999) - Assistant Director
First Love, Last Rites (1998) - Assistant Director
They Come at Night (1998) - Assistant Director
How to Make the Cruelest Month (1997) - Associate Producer
At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1991) - First Assistant Director.
