Azaria wrote and directed the 2004 short film "Nobody's Perfect", which won the Film Discovery Jury Award for Best Short at the US Comedy Arts Festival. In January 2007, he was confirmed to be directing "Outsourced", a film about two American workers who journey to get their jobs back, after their factory is moved to Mexico. In 2009, Azaria told "Empire" he was instead focusing on making a documentary about fatherhood. Two years later he told the "Los Angeles Times" that this project was "half-complete" and was "forever looking for financing to finish it." It eventually began in 2014, airing on AOL as an online series titled "Fatherhood". According to AOL, the series of short episodes documents Azaria's "touching, humorous, and often enlightening journey from a man who is not even sure he wants to have kids, to a father going through the joys, trials and tribulations of being a dad."