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

Realizing Truth

In the old Indian story of the blind men and the elephant, a picture of the truth emerges though a collection of perspectives.  In the same way, a series of microdocs can be assembled together to help us have a fuller experience of the impact of your organization. This month, through the series of the Downtown […]


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Make Your Case With Several Voices: Downtown Streets Team Case Study

“The work we produced with Micro-Documentaries has been an amazingly effective marketing tool for our organization, both as individual pieces and a series.  We’ve used our microdocs with great success to introduce presentations, showing the audience what we do in under two minutes, instead of our usual 15 minute explanation.  That gives us more time […]


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The Virtual Office: Better Health, Better Planet, Better Business

People sometimes are surprised to learn that Micro-Documentaries operates without an “office”.  Rochelle Durst, our Director of Productions, gives us her perspective on working from an avocado grove.   Personally I’ve been able to avoid the constraints of trying to live in a location dictated by a job market.  Instead I’ve been able to maximize […]


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Spring has sprung!

With the beautiful spectacle of winter making its way into spring, it is our pleasure to announce that our dear colleague, Nicole Rennie, gave birth to her son, Dashiel.  Cherry blossoms and newborns, both remind us of the inherent hope in life and remind us of who we are working for.  Welcome to the world […]


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