About Us
Four Corners Media is a documentary production company focused on short-form and long-form storytelling. Our current focus is on the climate crisis and environmental storytelling, particularly as it relates to the oceans.
Four Corners Media was founded by Micah Garen and Marie-Hélène Carleton in 2000. Their work has been recognized with numerous awards, including three Emmy nominations, and the Golden Nymph for Best News Documentary at the Monte Carlo Festival du Television.
Their documentary films, writing and photography have appeared in film festivals, television and on the web. They have worked with the New York Times, PBS, Al Jazeera English, The Guardian, The Times of London, The New Yorker, The Intercept, Bloomberg, BBC America, Vanity Fair, the Financial Times and many others.
They filmed around the world, from stories of climate change in the Arctic Circle to covering conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
They frequently speak about their experiences as documentary filmmakers and have appeared in the media for NPR, CBS, MSNBC, CNN, Democracy Now, The Today Show and Good Morning America. They have guest lectured on documentary filmmaking at Columbia, Harvard, Yale, and the CUNY Journalism School.
They have been awarded grants and fellowships from National Geographic Society, MacDowell Colony and UCross and participated in the Film Independent, IFP/Gotham Documentary Labs and Stockfish Film Festival.
The Four Corners Media team also use their storytelling and production skills on commercial projects.
Team
Micah Garen
Director - Cinematographer - Editor - Photographer - Writer
Micah Garen is an award winning documentary filmmaker who has worked in conflict and post-conflict zones for the past 14 years. Most recently, he has directed five feature length films for Al Jazeera English one of which won a Golden Nymph for Best News Documentary at the Monte Carlo Television Festival in 2014.
His work has been published in Al Jazeera English, The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Newsweek and the Financial Times, among others. His recent short film about the refugee crisis, Light on the Sea, launched in March on Vanity Fair. His short film from Afghanistan, Call Me Ehsaan, was a New York Times Op-Doc editor’s choice and screened at festivals. Micah filmed the “Christmas Eve Raid” scene in Iraq that was part of Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 911.
In 2004, Micah and his interpreter Amir, were kidnapped while filming in Nasiriyah. They were held for ten days before being released. Their story is chronicled in the dual-memoir with Marie-Hélène, American Hostage, published by Simon & Schuster in 2005. The memoir received starred reviews on both Kirkus and Publisher's Weekly.
Micah co-founded ScreeningRoom.org in 2015.
Marie-Hélène Carleton
Director - Producer - Writer - Photographer
Marie-Hélène Carleton is an award-winning documentary filmmaker. Most recently, she has directed five documentaries for Al Jazeera English, one of which won Best News Documentary at the Monte Carlo Festival of Television and Film in 2014.
Her recent short film about the refugee crisis, Light on the Sea, launched in March on Vanity Fair and The Scene. Her short film about the Egyptian uprisings in Tahrir Square of 2011, Four Women, One Revolution, won the Women and Girls Matter award for Media that Matters.
Her film work has appeared on Al Jazeera English, Vanity Fair, BBC America, the New York Times, the Financial Times, HDNet’s World Report and Granta Magazine, among others.
She is a member of Film Fatales and has been awarded artist fellowships at the MacDowell Colony and the Ucross Foundation. She was selected to participate in the inaugural Film Independent Documentary Lab in LA and the IFP Documentary Film Lab.
Marie-Hélène co-founded ScreeningRoom.org in 2015.
Katherine Dalldorf
Editor - Photographer - Producer - Cinematographer
Katherine Dalldorf is an associate editor, producer, photographer and camera person with Four Corners Media. She has worked on the feature films The Violence Paradox on Nova PBS, Death in the Family on Al Jazeera English , the feature version of Light on the Sea, and The Road to Nasiriyah, among many others. She spent time studying at the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU) in Prague, Czech Republic.
Jacob Griswold-Moran
Consulting Editor - Software Developer
Jacob was Four Corners Media’s lead editor from 2011-2016 for documentary features and short films. He is a co-founder and lead developer of ScreeningRoom. He has a soft spot for rabbits.