DOCUMENTARY · EDUCATION · SOCIAL IMPACT
Metamora Films creates documentary, educational, and social-impact media rooted in real people, lived experience, and stories that deserve a closer look.
Our work explores criminal justice, incarceration, reentry, stigma, identity, rebuilding, and other human stories where context, complexity, and perspective matter.
CURRENT PROJECT · EDUCATIONAL DOCUMENTARY SERIES
How much do you need to know about someone before you decide who they are?
Versions of Me is an ongoing short documentary series exploring identity, stigma, judgment, belonging, and the assumptions people make about one another.
Each film begins with truthful but incomplete information. Then, as more context is revealed, the audience is invited to reconsider the conclusions they formed at the beginning. The person has not changed. Instead, what the audience knows about that person has changed.
Rather than telling viewers what they should think, the series creates space for a deeper conversation about first impressions, labels, and how quickly people can be reduced to one part of their lives.
BUILT FOR CONVERSATION
The short-film format makes individual stories easier to use in classrooms, workshops, staff development, training programs, conferences, community programs, and facilitated screenings.
In addition, Metamora Films plans to develop discussion materials that help educators and facilitators explore themes such as identity, stigma, judgment, labeling, social psychology, sociology, media literacy, and the assumptions people make about others.
Encounter the person or story.
Notice the first impression.
Discover more of the story.
Return to the first conclusion.
Discuss what changed and why.
Metamora Films is developing a one-day micro film festival for the Portland / Vancouver, Washington metro in spring of 2027.
The returning Metamora Film Festival is being shaped as an intentionally intimate event — a place for independent film, social-impact media, lived experience, and real community conversation to come together in one room.
Programming is expected to include films and media exploring criminal justice, incarceration, reintegration, social stigma, second chances, and other stories that deserve deeper discussion beyond the screen.
Explore the FestivalWHAT WE DO
Metamora Films develops documentary, educational, and social-impact media for filmmakers, organizations, nonprofits, schools, and communities.
Because every project begins differently, we can become involved at the earliest idea stage or join a production already underway. From there, our work can extend into production, long-term content partnerships, workshops, educational licensing, and selected film distribution.
We develop film, documentary, podcast, educational, and social-impact projects from concept through final delivery. Depending on the project, that can include research, pre-production, interviews, filming, editing, and post-production.
Explore ProductionSome organizations need more than one film. Therefore, we also build ongoing storytelling relationships for documentaries, interviews, podcasts, educational content, event stories, editing, and other recurring media needs.
Explore Content PartnershipsIn addition, Metamora develops workshops around documentary storytelling, social-impact media, project development, and lived-experience storytelling. Sessions can take place locally in the Pacific Northwest or online.
Explore WorkshopsMeanwhile, films can continue working long after production ends. We create and license media for classrooms, universities, nonprofits, training programs, facilitated discussions, and community screenings.
Explore Educational LicensingFinally, selected criminal justice and social-impact films may need help finding the audiences they were created to reach. Our distribution work focuses on educational, institutional, nonprofit, advocacy, and community audiences rather than broad commercial release.
Explore Film Distribution
LIVED EXPERIENCE · CREATIVE OPPORTUNITY
Metamora Films works with people from many different backgrounds. At the same time, we want to create more opportunities for justice-impacted people, families, leaders, and creatives to help tell meaningful stories.
That can include documentary film, podcasting, writing, video, interviews, educational media, and other forms of creative work.
In addition, lived experience can bring perspective that cannot always be learned from the outside. For that reason, we believe people closest to these stories should have opportunities to help shape how they are told.
Justice involvement is never a requirement to work with Metamora Films.
We welcome filmmakers, writers, editors, facilitators, organizations, families, advocates, and community members who care about thoughtful, human-centered storytelling.
PREVIOUS WORK
Metamora Films has produced and contributed to documentaries, narrative films, podcasts, and independent media exploring criminal justice, stigma, forgiveness, community, identity, and lived experience.
Explore Previous Work
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Incarceration, families, lived experience, and the human consequences of the criminal justice system.
02
Housing barriers, stigma, reintegration, and rebuilding life after conviction.
03
A podcast centered on criminal justice, incarceration, and voices often missing from the conversation.
04
Forgiveness, accountability, healing, family, and the difficult work of rebuilding.
05
A portrait of a Utah community preserving local history, storytelling, and live radio tradition.
06
A character-driven narrative film from the early Metamora Films period.
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An early documentary about identity, lived experience, and assumptions about other people.
Metamora Films works with filmmakers, organizations, nonprofits, schools, advocates, and individuals who want to develop thoughtful film, documentary, podcast, educational, or social-impact media.
You can come to us with an early idea, research, lived experience, an existing project, or a clear production goal. We can help determine what the next stage should look like.
