ShortDocs
Discover hundreds of short audio gems produced in response to a prompt from Third Coast for the ShortDocs Competition, hosted between 2003 and 2016. Each year ushered in a new set of rules, new creative partners, and ever-more magical results.
Appetite of English Umami
How to prepare the best English class in Paris.
- 2013
- 03:34
- Jane Weston's English class
Well Behaved Women (RUS)
All women buy things that they don't really need. Why are they doing this?
- 2007
- 02:41
- Alexander Soleev
The Cat and the Boyfriend (INC)
Through diary entries, the relationship between a cat and the new, live-in boyfriend is revealed.
- 2006
- 03:02
- Mark A. Tolstedt
The Priscilla Tapes: An Introduction (INC)
A story of a collection of taped letters.
- 2006
- 02:30
- Zoe Irvine
Sometimes . . . (INC)
When I try from Zen sickness to fly . . .
- 2006
- 02:31
- Grace Yoon
Sold 'Em Way Up High at 1200 (INC)
Melds the incredible auctioneering skills of Dan Skeels, the 2004 World Livestock Auctioneering Champion, with the electronic sounds of Nick Freilich, aka Epicte the Elemental.
- 2006
- 02:21
- Cyrus Farivar
Feast and Famine: A Bitter Cure to Finally Forgetting Your Ex
Kurt Callum woke up one morning and realized he had gone fourteen days straight without thinking even once of his ex or their bitter break-up.
- 2013
- 02:50
Sweet, Sweet Solitude
A young girl rants about annoyances that are brought up frequently in her daily life while listing why her way of living is superior to most others.
- 2013
- 02:42
- Emily Hartman
- Lauren Vieni
- Michael Abramczyk
One Man's Sour is Another Man's Sweet
Maximus Thaler has an interesting relationship with food.
- 2013
- 02:56
- Abigail Collins
- Victoria Bedford
Umami to the Ears
Weirdo Records is a closet-sized vinyl shop in Cambridge, Massachusetts where Angela Sawyer hosts experimental music concerts, for those with a unique and unorthodox musical taste.
- 2013
- 02:40
- Brittany Gervais
- Victoria Bedford
Bottling Hell: Remembering Mr. Murphree and the Spicy-Sweet Datil Pepper of St. Augustine
"Bottled hell" is a local term for the blow-your-socks off spicy datil pepper sauce ubiquitous in St. Augustine, FL.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Anna Hamilton
A Sweet Boy That Can't Savor
For most New Yorkers being surrounded by food is a blessing, but for one boy in Queens it's tormenting.
- 2013
- 02:55
- Will Denselow
No Appetite for Bitter Old Men
Christ! I smoke cigarettes! Leave me alone!
- 2013
- 02:52
- Ruslan Kulski
Chocolate is a Sweet Distraction
The founder of Patric Chocolate finds his way to love and sweets in an unexpected way.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Scott Pham
My Mommy's Umami Latkes
Once a year my extended family comes together for three courses in tradition: making latkes, dinner conversation and finally, the ongoing memories we create together during our annual Hanukkah party.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Bari Finkel
Bittersweet For Left Hand Only
The ways hands make us human.
- 2013
- 02:50
- Magdalen Jenne
Suite for a Salty Standard
My neighbor Ellen swings a classic (from the I Hate to Cook Book, circa 1960.)
- 2013
- 02:59
- Stephanie Rowden
Bitter Herbs, Sweet Freedom
At a Passover dinner, two friends celebrate their exodus from a fundamentalist Hasidic community.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Frimet Goldberger
Sweet In Action
When we feel bad we often make ourselves feel worse when better is so much easier than we think.
- 2013
- 02:41
- AnnMarie Miller
Passing on Sweet
How do recipes get passed on?
- 2013
- 02:12
- Belle Wemmer
- Todd Wemmer
One Way
A woman in a hurry seeks refuge from a storm and finds something in common with the motel attendant.
- 2016
- 03:01
- Marie Lovejoy
Salty Relocation
Chronicling my love for snacks amidst my relocation from the U.S. to Cairo, Egypt.
- 2013
- 02:05
- Kim Fox
Savoring the Salty Ritual
Marinating in the kitchen.
- 2013
- 02:59
- Sara Curtis
The Last Morning was a Sweet One
2013 ShortDocs Winner! A short story in sounds of our food's start to finish, from morning to night (though not necessarily in the same day!)
- 2013
- 02:56
- Alix Blair
Bitter and In
Based on excerpts from a diary of an anorexic 16-year-old.
- 2013
- 02:29
- Bridget Doherty