Jacqueline Greff Bio

An accomplished professional with over 20 years at Procter & Gamble and a string of university degrees, Jacquie is a newcomer to documentary filmmaking.  Fell's Point Out of Time is her first full-length documentary, although she has several instructional DVDs and a number of award-winning smaller projects to her credit.  Fell's Point Out of Time is a labor of love for the tiny, unique community where she and her husband have lived for the past 11 years.  The shooting, editing and replication of the documentary were entirely self-financed.

When Jacquie settled on Chemistry as her college major, she planned to go on to medical school.  Although she graduated summa cum laude, the realities of being a new mother in a rocky marriage living in a small Midwestern town in 1974 intervened.  No wanting to work in a lab, she opted for business management, opening the Dubuque, IA branch of one of the first services to offer automated portable telephones that did not require an answering service dispatcher.  The business did well and quickly became profitable, but the aftermath of success was boredom.  Deciding she needed to experience more of the world, Jacquie sold her share of the business and moved to Phoenix, AZ with a musician friend, Kraig Greff, who she later married.

Determined to succeed in the competitive Phoenix job market, Jacquie worked as a Legal Assistant while she earned her MBA at Arizona State University.  Upon graduation, she accepted a job in R&D with Procter & Gamble, one of the world’s leading consumer products companies, in Cincinnati, OH.  During her 20 years with P&G, Jacquie held positions of increasing responsibility initially in Products Research, where she helped develop the formula, packaging and aesthetics for their revolutionary new liquid detergent, Liquid Tide.  Next, she moved into Regulatory Services where she was promoted to Section Head. Her assignments in Regulatory Services ranged from phosphate detergent legislation to environmental research on the company’s fat substitute, Olestra, to developing a computerized process for global regulatory and safety reviews, to quality assurance. In 1993, she transferred from Cincinnati to Cosmetics in Hunt Valley, MD.  Seeking to deepen her understanding of the regulatory and legal environment, Jacquie went to law school nights, earning her JD from the University of Maryland in 1996.

In January 2002, Jacquie accepted an early retirement package to work with her husband of 25 years in their business, Tonal Vision.  She helped expand the business from music and audio into video and multimedia, in the process earning a second Masters in Producing Film & Video from American University in Washington, DC.  She brings the same tireless excellence to her filmmaking that she applied to her corporate job and her education. Jacquie has produced several instructional DVDs, including Tony Sweet’s award-winning Visual Rhythm: The Art & Business of Nature Photography.

Kraig B. Greff Bio

Kraig composed and recorded the music for Fell's Point Out of Time, recorded the audio for the interviews and did the audio post-production for the documentary.  He also interviewed or was cameraman on most of the interviews. 

Since early childhood, Kraig's love has been music.  Born in Springfield, IL, he began playing classical accordion at the age of 5 and was performing professionally by age 10.  He paid for three years of college by playing his Hammond B-3 organ in local night spots.  He left college and left the Midwest when he had an opportunity to tour with a New York-based show band.  In his thirty-some years as a professional pianist/keyboard player, Kraig has toured as pianist for Barry White’s Love Unlimited Orchestra and as keyboard engineer with Dianna Ross, performed with Della Reese and Joe Williams, and been a session musician on recordings for Whitney Houston, The Wynans, George Strait and The Dixie Chicks.  He is currently accordionist with The Crawdaddies, a popular zydeco party band that is a regular fixture on the national college and festival circuits.

In addition to maintaining an active performing career, Kraig has been composing music and creating audio for television and radio since 1992 when he founded Tonal Vision.  Since its founding, the company has contributed to over 200 Discovery and National Geographic television shows as well as a long list of award-winning advertising and marketing projects.