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.

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Making Media Now Recap: The landscape for documentary film has never been richer

Earlier this month I was invited by David Tames to give the opening talk at the Making Media Now 2013 conference in Boston, which was organized by Filmmakers Collaborative. The theme for this year’s conference was “Living the Connection Economy” and explored how to make media that stands out amidst the onslaught of communication in our everyday lives. […]


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Thank you for helping us secure a session at the Communications Network Fall Conference

We did it! After a week of intense competition, in which 66 potential sessions at the Communications Network Fall Conference were put up to popular vote, we came in the top 12, securing us an exciting opportunity to present at this year’s conference in New Orleans. We couldn’t have done it without you. Your votes, […]


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