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

Hidden Villa microdoc wins GlobalGiving’s Video Contest

Each year GlobalGiving, the online marketplace that connects funders with lesser known purposeful organizations and projects, hosts a video contest among those nonprofits who have posted a funding opportunity on the GlobalGiving site. This year more than 65 organizations entered films into the competition, and we were proud to learn this week that Hidden Villa was named one of the […]


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Enter your microdoc to win TechSoup’s digital storytelling challenge

If you work in the non-profit world, odds are that you already know of TechSoup for the donated or discounted hardware and software that it distributes to purposeful organizations. You may even be reading this post on one of its refurbished computers. This month TechSoup is hosting the 2013 Digital Storytelling Challenge, which encourages nonprofits to submit short […]


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April 10 Event: Listening to Beneficiaries

The current issue of the Stanford Social Innovation Review has a fascinating article about the importance of beneficiaries. Nonprofits and foundations, the article argues, all too often look to experts for the latest research or crowdsourcing for popular support while overlooking the people who matter most—their intended beneficiaries—who can offer powerful feedback, point out problems on the ground, and […]


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Hope for Humans microdoc wins Grand Prize at the Neuro Film Festival

[dotted_separator] [table_row title=”Client”]Hope for Humans[/table_row] [table_row title=”Purpose”]To call attention to the devastating impact of Nodding Syndrome in Northern Uganda. Some 7,000 children now have the disease, while the cause and cure remain unknown.[/table_row] [table_row title=”Award”]The film won the grand prize at the Neuro Film Festival, a contest that helps raise awareness about brain and nervous […]


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