His passion for documentary film is guided by his interest in communities that shape their own reality. In his latest film, The United States of Detroit, he and co-writer Dana Schwartz honed in on a group of people in Detroit who were actively reshaping the realities of their own communities through action-driven work. The resilient nature of people, and the microcosm of worlds they live, in is what drives Norwood to keep telling stories about interesting people. He is fascinated by the power that documentaries have to actually make change—especially where it's needed most.