 Giese's other directing work includes the short doc "A Lotta Lambada" and the short film "A Dry Heat", which won a UCLA Spotlight award, a Cine Golden Eagle, and was a finalist for the 1991 Student Academy Awards.She also directed the short film "Take Your Seat" (aka "Jewish Water") which also won a Cine Golden Eagle, and an episode of the TV sitcom "Solo En America" for Columbia TriStar.She did uncredited rewrites on the 1996 film "North Star".