Geretta Geretta (also known as Geretta/Geretta, Geretta Giancarlo, Janna Ryann or Geretta Giancarlo Field) is an American actress, director, screenwriter and producer, who has worked in Ireland, South Africa, Italy, Switzerland and the United States.

She has directed the 2001 Swiss film Sweetiecakes, starring Miss Universe 1996 contestant Stephanie Berger and Urs Althaus, and the 2006 film Whitepaddy, starring Sherilyn Fenn, Lisa Bonet, Hill Harper, Karen Black and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

She has appeared in such films as Bruno Mattei's Rats: Night Of Terror, Lamberto Bava's Dèmoni, and Terminator 2.

Geretta/Geretta, a multi-faceted woman, has worked spanning the globe, from Northern Ireland to South Africa, from Rome to New York City as a Writer/Director and Actress: Although recently relocated to Los Angeles, she began her career as an actress in New York's "off-off Broadway" theater scene at Theatre For The New City and the improv comedy group Rusty Nails before making a full-time career in Italy, appearing in over 20 feature films, including Smithereens (1982), Rats - Notte di terrore (1984) and Dèmoni (1985), directed by Lamberto Bava and produced by horror legend Dario Argento, who is the father of Asia Argento before graduating from The American Film Institute MFA Screenwritng Program. Her work in front of the camera sparked her desire to go behind it, to make the movies instead of being in them. Geretta relocated to Los Angeles, where she graduated AFI. During this time she wrote and directed a number of shorts such as "When Fish Fly" and "Love To Share", as well as making Public Service Announcements for California water conservation and spots on spec for Levis. After being impressed by the films coming out of Ireland like Circle of Friends (1995), Waking Ned (1998) and Secret of Roan Inish, The (1994), Geretta moved to Ireland. Originally planning to stay in Belfast, Northern Ireland, for three weeks, her love of their culture and arts movement led her to stay for two years, first interning for six months with the award-winning film collective Northern Visions, where she taught a number of cross-community writing seminars for first-time and professional writers from both the Protestant and Catholic communities. During her years in Belfast, Geretta was the recipient of a number of film grants, including a Northern Ireland Film Council Study Grant (the first American to receive one). She was also the first American to receive a grant to attend University College Dublin's Writing the Screenplay where she completed the screenplay for her feature-length film Sweetiecakes (2001). Geretta worked as a television producer for Ulster Television, appearing on camera with her segment series "Geretta Geretta Looks At . . . " Belfast's first experiment in lite news and later directed the short film "Homesick", produced with generous materials grants from the BBC. Geretta Geretta has built on her experiences of having lived within different cultures. Her fluency in Italian was vital to writing, directing and producing "100 Voices Against Apartheid" a collection of one hundred filmed anti-segregation testimonials from Odessa, Billy Bragg (I), Miriam Makeba, Roberto Benigni, Run DMC, Public Enemy and many more for the United Nations Special Committee Against Apartheid and UNICEF. Geretta premiered "Homesick" at the Tribeca Film Center and shortly thereafter produced staged readings of "Sweetiecakes"' across Manhattan to raise the initial budget. Once Swiss producers picked up the project, Geretta adapted the screenplay into German, rewriting the story to take place in Winterthur, "Switzerland's biggest little city". The film was shot and completed in Switzerland in the summer of 2001, and won for Best Female Director-Melbourne Underground Festival-2002 and was her first feature film. Her film Whitepaddy (2006) is currently in production. When not in Hollywood Geretta can be found on a small island outside of Portland, Oregon while polish her new sexy comedy: 'The Art Of Spooning.'