18+ Participants
All participating subjects should currently be 18 or older.
How much do you need to know about someone before you decide who they are?
Versions of Me is an educational documentary series exploring identity, stigma, judgment, belonging, and the assumptions we make about other people.
Metamora Films is looking for everyday people to participate in Versions of Me, a documentary exploring identity, personal history, and how our perceptions of others can change. Director Matt Duhamel takes a unique approach, meeting participants knowing only the basics about their lives. Their past experiences are revealed naturally during filming, allowing the director and audience to discover their stories together, without judgment or manufactured drama.
We meet someone's record. Their diagnosis. Their job. Their mistake. Their reputation. Their appearance. Their circumstances.
Then, often without realizing it, we begin filling in everything we don't know.
The person hasn't changed. What the audience knows about them has.
Versions of Me is an educational documentary series built around that moment. Each short film introduces viewers to a person, experience, or situation through truthful but incomplete information.
As additional context is revealed, viewers are invited to reconsider their first impressions and examine the assumptions that helped shape them.
The films aren't designed to tell audiences what they should think about someone. Instead, they create space to recognize how quickly we form conclusions when we only know part of a story.
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Versions of Me is being developed as both an educational documentary series and a flexible screening resource for schools, organizations, nonprofits, and communities.
The short-film format makes individual stories easier to incorporate into classrooms, workshops, staff development, training programs, conferences, community programs, and facilitated screenings.
Films can be paired with discussion questions, educator materials, and suggested pause points that encourage viewers to examine what they believe they know before additional context is revealed.
Versions of Me is looking for individuals, couples, and small families in the Portland–Vancouver metro area whose experiences might challenge the assumptions people make about them.
You may have experienced being judged, labeled, stereotyped, misunderstood, or defined by one part of your life — while the fuller story is much more complicated.
Your story doesn't need to be extraordinary. What matters is that there may be more to your life than someone would understand from a first impression, a label, a circumstance, or a single piece of information.
If you've ever felt that people see only part of who you are, there may be a story worth exploring.
All participating subjects should currently be 18 or older.
We're open to individuals, couples, and small families who have a story they want to share.
Our initial filming is focused on Portland, Vancouver, and surrounding communities.
You should be comfortable appearing on camera and sharing part of your experience with us.
Depending on the story, an episode may look different from a traditional sit-down documentary.
Filming may include interviews, everyday activities, time with the people in your life, or unscripted observational filming where our cameras document real moments and experiences as they happen.
We're not looking for performances or rehearsed answers. We're interested in genuine experiences and people who are comfortable telling their story in their own words.
Versions of Me is being developed as an educational documentary series designed not only to be watched, but to be discussed.
Each short film explores how assumptions are formed, what happens when new information changes our understanding of someone, and how easily a person can be reduced to a label, circumstance, or first impression.
The series is being developed for educational and facilitated settings where a short film can become the starting point for discussion, reflection, and a closer look at how we understand other people.
Each story invites the audience to notice not only what they learn about another person, but how their own perception changes along the way.
The person hasn't changed.
What the audience knows about them has.The conversation surrounding each story can be just as important as the film itself.
Alongside the films, Metamora Films plans to develop discussion materials that can help educators and facilitators explore themes such as identity, stigma, judgment, belonging, labeling, attribution, social psychology, sociology, media literacy, and the assumptions we make about others.
Where appropriate, we'll collaborate with educators, researchers, and subject-matter professionals to help ensure those materials are useful and grounded in relevant academic perspectives.
We're interested in connecting with educators, schools, colleges, universities, nonprofits, and community organizations that may want to use the series in an educational or facilitated setting.
Versions of Me is currently in development. If you're interested in future screenings, classroom use, discussion materials, partnerships, or bringing the series to your organization, we'd like to hear from you.
Contact Us About Educational UseEducators interested in exploring the psychology behind prejudice, stereotypes, and discrimination can find additional teaching resources from the American Psychological Association.