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

Surfcamp: A case study in getting the media excited about your short film

One of the great injustices of growing up in an impoverished, gang-ridden neighborhood is that children are deprived of their youths. Murder, hunger, lost parents … such hardships have a way of hardening children into adults long before their time. So it goes in Sunnydale, at the southern edge of San Francisco. As we learn […]


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What we’re up to: In Aspen rallying to enlighten a path toward renewable energy

Allison Wolff, Micro-Documentaries colleague and co-founder of Frack Free Colorado, sent me the message below with a note: “for our daughters.” Thank you Allison for finding the time and energy to do this important work for our daughters and for all of us. We are most grateful for the way you are helping to change the […]


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