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About the ShortDocs
at the Third Coast Festival we mostly consider ourselves curators, constantly seeking creative and memorable audio work to share with the world. But once a year we relish the opportunity to actually help bring new work into the world, via the Third Coast Festival ShortDocs.
From 2003-2005 we commissioned three sets of ShortDocs from radio producers - four stories about a different subject each year: thirst (2003), darkness (2004) and games (2005.) Then starting in 2006 we began inviting anyone and everyone to try their hand at making short audio stories based on a unique challenge each year: 99 Ways to Tell a Radio Story (2006), Dollar Storeys (2007)) and Radio Ephemera (2008).The ShortDocs have became an annual public audio challenge, inviting producers and listeners alike to explore the versatility and flexibility of the documentary form. Everyone is welcome to participate and all are encouraged to try their hands (ears?) at producing sound-rich stories ranging from literal to metaphorical, narrative to sound-rich, cultural to political.
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2008 ShortDocs Announced!
For the TCF 2008 public audio challenge, Radio Ephemera, participants were asked to produce three-minute stories inspired by two of five books first published in the early 20th century, and carefully selected from the Prelinger Library in San Francisco: "Trees as Good Citizens," "The Stork Didn't Bring You," "The Big Strike," "Control of Body and Mind," and "Trailer Ahoy!". All submissions also had to include the voice of a stranger.
Seventy-two submissions arrived from around the world and we've chosen just FOUR as the 2008 ShortDocs.
These four range from brilliantly absurd to intensely personal, and each excels in navigating the RE challenge in very different ways.
Listen to the 2008 TCF ShortDocs.
Browse (with your ears) through the entire Radio Ephemera archive.
Read more about the Radio Ephemera public audio challenge. |
Catch up on ShortDocs from past years:
2007 - Dollar Storeys
2006 - 99 Ways to Tell a Radio Story
2005 - Stories about Games
2004 - Stories about Darkness
2003 - Stories about Thirst
Have an idea for a ShortDocs project? Let us know!
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