Micah Garen and Marie-Helene Carleton have directed four documentaries for Al Jazeera's Correspondent series,[9] including Identity and Exile: an American's struggle with Zionism featuring photojournalist Matthew Cassel.

[1] Garen has made a number of short documentaries, including one describing the lives of Egyptian women during the political upheavals in 2011[10] one on an American airman killed in Afghanistan[11] and one on refugees fleeing Turkey to Greece by boat.

[13] Garen founded ScreeningRoom in 2015, an online community for filmmakers with tools including collaborative feedback on cuts, festival submissions and film grants.

[15][16] On August 13, 2004, while he was in a market taking photographs with a regular camera, Garen and his Iraqi translator, Amir Doshi, were kidnapped by Shia extremists[15] and they were held hostage in Nasiriya in southern Iraq.

[15][17] On August 19, a video aired on al-Jazeera in which Garen appeared sitting on the floor in front of masked armed insurgents making demands for his release.