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NATIONAL BROADCAST

Every fall, we bring the best new documentaries produced worldwide to the national airwaves in a special two-hour program, Best of the Best: The Third Coast Festival Broadcast. The featured documentaries, all winners of the annual Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition, prove just how powerful radio can be. The stories engage, provoke, entertain, and transport listeners, proving that all you need to discover new worlds is a little box and an antenna.

Best of the Best: The 2011 Third Coast Festival Broadcast

This year's special showcases the winners of the 2011 TC/RHDF competition, interviews with the winning producers, and highlights from our 2011 Third Coast Awards Ceremony hosted by Peter Sagal from NPR's Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me.

Gwen Macsai, host of the Third Coast's Re:sound, and an award-winning writer/humorist, will guide listeners through this two-hour tour of the world's best new documentaries.

Best of the Best: The 2011 Third Coast Festival Broadcast airs from coast to coast on your local public radio station during the upcoming holiday season.

Give your station a call to find out where you can hear the program near you... or listen right here!
 

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BEST DOCUMENTARY: GOLD AWARD
The Wisdom of Jay Thunderbolt, by Nick van der Kolk and Brendan Baker, with Nick Williams

BEST DOCUMENTARY - SILVER AWARD
Finding Emilie, by Jad Abumrad with Robert Krulwich and Soren Wheeler

BEST DOCUMENTARY - BRONZE AWARD
Patriot Games, by Ben Calhoun

BEST DOCUMENTARY: HONORABLE MENTION
Heel, Toe, Step Together, by Katie Burningham

DIRECTORS' CHOICE
Children of Sodom and Gomorrah, by Sharon Davis and Jens Jarisch

BEST NEW ARTIST
Kohn, by Andy Mills

BEST NEWS FEATURE
Deportations Before Reform: Anatomy of an Immigration Bust, by Marianne McCune

RADIO IMPACT
The Five Percent Rule, by Sally Herships