2020 Third Coast / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition
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We're thrilled to reveal the winners of the 2020 Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition!
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How to Remember
Winner of the 2020 Third Coast / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition Best Documentary: Gold Award
How to Remember is sonically inspired by Axel's travels to Côte d'Ivoire.
- 2020
- 10:24
- Axel Kacoutié
- Eleanor McDowall
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Borders Between Us
Winner of the 2020 Third Coast / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition Best Documentary: Silver Award
Saidu Tejan-Thomas is a young poet. For a long time, he had a story he needed to tell: an homage and apology to his mother.
- 2020
- 37:26
- Saidu Tejan-Thomas Jr.
- Jay Allison
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Not This Again
Winner of the 2020 Third Coast / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition Best Documentary: Bronze Award
Angelina was a journalist living in Brooklyn when she was diagnosed with ALS.
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Centenarians in Lockdown
Winner of the 2020 Third Coast / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition Best Documentary: Short Award
When the 1918 flu pandemic broke out, Joe Newman was 5 years old. Today, he's 107. He lives in a community for seniors in Sarasota, Fla., with his fiancée, Anita Sampson.
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Somebody
Winner of the 2020 Third Coast / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition Best Serialized Story Award
When Shapearl Wells's son Courtney is found outside a Chicago police station with a fatal bullet wound, Shapearl immediately distrusts the official narrative.
- 2020
- 28:43
- Shapearl Wells
- Alison Flowers
- Bill Healy
- Sarah Geis
- Bart Warshaw
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Crosses in the Desert
Winner of the 2020 Third Coast / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition Best Documentary in a Non-English Language Award
Alvaro Enciso is a retired man who lives in Tucson, Arizona. He puts crosses in the exact places where dead migrant bodies have been found in the Sonoran desert.
- 2020
- 24:36
- Catalina May
- Martín Cruz
- Dennis Maxwell
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Infinities
Winner of the 2020 Third Coast / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition Best New Artist Award
Concerning mental illness, toxic workplace environments, Egyptian Rat Screw, and the nature of infinity.
- 2020
- 25:13
- Boen Wang
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Dat Rona
Winner of the 2020 Third Coast / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition Impact Award
Dat Rona, a Black colloquialism to describe the coronavirus, was produced in 3 days to disseminate ‘Rona’ knowledge after harmful media stories began to circulate that Black people were immune to the virus.
- 2020
- 01:05:34
- Janina Jeff
- Sam Riddell
- Chris Diggins
- Chad Milner
- Dr. Ashira Blazer
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Diary of a HomeSchooler
Winner of the 2020 Third Coast / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition Best News Feature Award
Sarah Alli-Brown is sixteen-years-old. She’s a high school junior whose school has been shuttered for months because of the coronavirus.
- 2020
- 11:00
- Anayansi Diaz-Cortes
- Brett Myers
- Kevin Sullivan
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Songs of Speculation (excerpt)
Winner of the 2020 Third Coast / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition Audio Unbound Award
Songs of Speculation is a lecture that explodes into multi-form performance, calling on the body, time, and the power of music to reclaim histories forgotten or lost.
- 2020
- 39:37
- Jillian Walker
- Ben Williams
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The Work Of Closing A Notorious Jail
Winner of the 2020 Third Coast / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition Directors' Choice Award
Five years after Michael Brown’s death at the hands of a police officer galvanized criminal justice reform activists in St. Louis, they mounted a serious effort to shut down the notorious Workhouse jail.