Natasha Deganello Giraudie, Creative Director

CEO & Founder
Natasha founded Micro-Documentaries with a vision to make compelling cinematic filmmaking accessible to all social innovators. The resulting short films, solution trailers of sorts, have helped nonprofits and purposeful businesses in more than 30 countries advance their missions, raise funds, advance legislation and increase though leadership. Natasha regularly writes and teaches on topics related to storytelling, social innovation, and short documentary film production, and distribution for purposeful businesses and nonprofits.

Prior to Micro-Documentaries, she was CEO of Papilia, where she helped nonprofits raise millions of dollars with an innovative stewardship software that showed donors the difference their gifts make. She started her career in her native Venezuela filming adventure and nature documentaries distributed through the Discovery Channel. She went to film school at the University of Texas at Austin and received her Master’s degree in Journalism from Stanford, where she was awarded a Stanford Haas Center for Public Service fellowship to pursue documentary work in Nepal.

Natasha combines her passion for film with a lifelong commitment to the nonprofit sector. She has worked as a field and board volunteer with nonprofits in Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the U.S. since she was a teenager. She co-chairs the Advisory Board of the Dalai Lama Fellows and serves on the Advisory Boards of Tools for Peace and the Biomimicry Institute. Natasha lives in the Bay Area with her husband and daughter, where she enjoys paddleboarding with sea lions and discovering the joys of the violin.

All posts by Natasha Deganello Giraudie, Creative Director

Paraíso: Lessons from a beautiful short film

Last week the New York Times published a beautiful short film titled “Paraíso,” the Spanish word for paradise. The film documents the lives of window washers in Chicago, exploring the daily perils of their jobs and the existential questions about life, death and shared humanity that they grapple with each time they strap into their harnesses.Given the […]


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How to place your microdoc in the Special Features section of a DVD

Perhaps you’ve seen A Place at the Table, the new feature-length documentary film about hunger in America. It comes from the same team that produced Food Inc. and has received positive press for its frank assessment of hunger, childhood obesity, and food assistance in the U.S. If you missed it in theaters, you can now catch it on DVD or Blu-ray, […]


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