Giancola then directed over twenty feature films and TV movies, including Icebreaker, Lightning - Fire from the Sky, Moving Targets, Landslide, and Moonlight and Mistletoe.

Giancola cast the likes of Jesse Eisenberg, Chris Evans, Kate Bosworth, Paul Dano, Josh Peck, Todd G. Hutchinson, and Billy Ray Cyrus in their first starring roles.

He has also directed the likes of Bruce Campbell, Stacy Keach, Sean Astin, Morgan Fairchild, James Coburn, and Tim Blake Nelson.

In 2005, he attempted to continue his out-of-the-box casting style with the campy comedy Illegal Aliens, starring WWF wrestler Chyna and Anna Nicole Smith in her last performance.

Later, using extensive behind-the-scenes footage, Giancola turned his ill fortune into the critically acclaimed documentary Addicted to Fame, which the late Roger Ebert called, “Probably the best movie about the making of a B-Movie ever made”.