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

Now your audience can view videos directly in their Outlook inbox

Driving my daughter to ballet the other day, I passed a billboard advertising the new and improved Microsoft Outlook. “Get a better view,” the billboard said. “Watch videos directly from your inbox.” It turns out that the new Outlook.com includes a feature called “Active Views” that allows users to view videos directly in their inbox rather than […]


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Hiring: bright, creative, high-performing Yahoos who still want to work from home

Last week Marissa Mayer, the newly anointed president and CEO of Yahoo!, made big news when she terminated Yahoo!’s flexible work-from-home policy. In attempting to revitalize her company’s corporate culture and create an inspiring environment for new ideas, she believes that “communication and collaboration will be important, so we need to be working side-by-side.” (Here’s a […]


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Staff Picks: A negative to celebrate

[dotted_separator] [table_row title=”Client”](RED)[/table_row] [table_row title=”Purpose”]To communicate the life-saving impact that ARV treatment has in preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV. To date, (RED) has raised over $200 million for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.[/table_row] [dotted_separator] Sometimes the toughest sorrows and setbacks inspire us to carry on and achieve great things. Constance Mudenda […]


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