2022-23 Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition
A New Vision for the Third Coast Competition & Call for Entries
The 2022-23 Competition was a launching pad for the future of Third Coast programming and our annual Call for Entries. Now, we’re raising $50,000 to restart the independent Third Coast Competition in 2024 — made by makers, for makers! Please support Third Coast now. #WeNeedThirdCoast
2022-23 Third Coast Showcase
First and foremost, dive into the 2022-23 Third Coast/RHDF Competition Showcase to learn about our 11 Winners, 44 Finalists, and 20 Final Round Judges, including their curatorial statements about why they chose each award-winning story. You can also stream the Worldwide Awards Presentation, featuring all 11 Winners from last year.
Scroll down to dive into the 2022-23 Winners in each of our nine categories!
For the first time in 2022-22 Competition, we also launched several new Pilot Offerings, culminating in the following:
- Lowering rates for all non-English language entries through our Final Deadline;
- Offering dedicated feedback to nearly 30 entrants in the Best New Artist category, directly from the Final Round Judges;
- Expanding our Third Coast Listening Team to include audio makers, artists and curators Jackson Roach and Phoebe Wang;
- Hosting live in-person screenings at the Music Box Theatre in Chicago for 10 outstanding early-career makers as part of our Emerging Makers Spotlight.
FINALISTS
Best Documentary
- A Hole in the Silence / De Eso No Se Habla Podcast / Spain
- Accounts and Accountability / Lights Out (Falling Tree Productions, BBC Radio 4) / United Kingdom
- Halfie: A Memoir / Artist Propulsion Lab (WQXR) / United States
- How Do I Love Someone? Starring Megan Tan / WILD (LAist Studios) / United States
- Last Day: A Love Story / Last Day (Lemonada Media) / United States
- Live In Kyiv: Comedy From A War Zone / BBC Radio 4 (Lead Mojo) / United Kingdom
- Love, Death and Benzodope / Crackdown / Canada
- Whip Law / The Wind / United States & United Kingdom
Best Documentary: Short
- A New Tense / Short Cuts (Falling Tree Productions, BBC Radio 4) / Czech Republic
- Cold t-ts, warm hearts: the cold water dippers of Maine / Outside/In (New Hampshire Public Radio) / United States
- My Iron Lung / Radio Diaries / United States
- Nancy Masters searches for answers / Georgia Public Broadcasting / United States
Audio Unbound
- JOURNEY(S) / HumanitiesDC, KPFA / United States & Ethiopia
- The McSweeney's Audio Issue / McSweeney's Publishing & Radiotopia from PRX / United States
- Weird Noise / Weird Noise / United Kingdom
- Welcome to Vanguard Estates / Flash Forward / United States
Best Documentary: Non-English Language
- El sueño de La Bestia (The Beast's Dream) / Crónicas al borde Podcast / Ecuador
- Episódio 2: O breu da floresta (Episode 2: The Forest's Dusk) / Habitat Podcast (Folha de S.Paulo) / Brazil
- Leti ili umri (Fly or Die) / Radio Atlas & Croatian Radio HRT-HR3 Dokumentarna radiodrama / Croatia
- El baño (Instructions for going to the bathroom) / CUIR: Historias disidentes / Mexico
Best New Artist
- Am I Able? / FreshEd Podcast / United States
- Lost In Translation / The California Report Magazine (KQED) & Code Switch (NPR) / United States
- Old Tapes / Funny Stories to Tell in the Dark Podcast / United States
- The Sound Collector / Soundscape Productions / United Kingdom
Impact
- Farm Succession in Northeast Montana / Reframing Rural / United States
- My Neighbor the Suspected War Criminal / Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting & PRX / United States
- Roe Was Never Enough / VICE News Reports (VICE) in partnership with Type Investigations / United States
- The Last Year at Forest Cove / WABE / United States
Best Serialized Story
- After Ayotzinapa/Después de Ayotzinapa / Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, the National Security Archive, PRX/Adonde Media / United States & Mexico
- I Will Not Grow Old Here / Radio Workshop / South Africa
- In Deep: One City's Year of Climate Chaos / American Public Media / United States
- Mother Country Radicals / Crooked Media / United States
- On Our Watch / KQED & NPR / United States
- Pillow Talk / Audible & Easy Tiger & Audiocraft / Australia
- Stolen: Surviving St. Michael’s / Spotify Studios / United States
- Third Squad: After Afghanistan / Airloom Media / United States
Best News Feature
- A Thursday night — the last Thursday night — at Northfield's Rustic Restaurant / Vermont Public / United States
- City targeted same homeless New Yorkers over and over in encampment sweeps, data shows / Morning Edition (WNYC) / United States
- Escape From Tarkov / On the Media (WNYC) / United States
- Jamie's Spot / Island Morning (CBC Radio) / Canada
Directors' Choice
- Black Radio Rochester / WXIR Community Radio / United States
- feeling body / Between the Ears (Falling Tree Productions, BBC Radio 3) / United Kingdom, Kenya
- Stas THEE Boss Pays the Cost in Change / Fresh off the Spaceship (KEXP) / United States
- Variations on M. / Lucia Festival / Italy
Judges
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Axel Kacoutié
Arlie Adlington
Erisa Apantaku
Stacia Brown
Alana Casanova-Burgess
Wederik De Backer
Julia Furlan
Jimmy Gutierrez
Sharon Mashihi
Rachel Matlow
Melissa Mbugua
Katherine Nagasawa
Priska Neely
Habiba Nosheen
Lisa Pollak
Elena Rivera
Juan Serrano
Justine Tobiasz
Alice Wilder
Mike Williams
Richard Yeh
Promise Burden Prompt Origin Defense Palette Call
Winner of the 2022-23 Third Coast/RHDF Competition Audio Unbound Award, selected by Final Round Judges Stacia Brown, Sharon Mashihi, and Justine Tobiasz.
- 2023
- 0
- Damon Phạm
Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong
Winner of the 2022-23 Third Coast/RHDF Competition Impact Award, selected by Final Round Judges Katherine Nagasawa, Habiba Nosheen, and Richard Yeh.
- 2023
- 32:47
- Emily Hanford
- Catherine Winter
- Christopher Peak
- Chris Julin
Finn and the Bell
Winner of the 2022-23 Third Coast/RHDF Competition Best Documentary: Silver Award, selected by Final Round Judges Jimmy Gutierrez, Rachel Matlow, Melissa Mbugua, Priska Neely, and Mike Williams.
- 2023
- 33:52
- Erica Heilman
A Fantasy, A Lie
Winner of the 2022-23 Third Coast/RHDF Competition Best Documentary: Non-English Language Award, selected by Final Round Judges Wederik de Backer, Julia Furlan, and Juan Serrano.
- 2023
- 0
- Pauline Augustyn
- Katharina Smets
Checking One's Levels
Winner of the 2022-23 Third Coast/RHDF Competition Best Documentary: Short Award, selected by Final Round Judges Stacia Brown, Sharon Mashihi, and Justine Tobiasz.
- 2023
- 04:34
- Talia Augustidis
- Eleanor McDowall
You Didn't See Nothin
Winner of the 2022-23 Third Coast/RHDF Competition Best Serialized Story Award, selected by Final Round Judges Arlie Adlington, Alana Casanova-Burgess, Lisa Pollak, and Elena Rivera.
Atsimenu jo žvilgsnį. Istorija apie karį ir migrantą (I Remember His Look. The Story of a Soldier and a Migrant)
Winner of the 2022-23 Third Coast/RHDF Competition Best Documentary: Gold Award, selected by Final Round Judges Jimmy Gutierrez, Rachel Matlow, Melissa Mbugua, Priska Neely, and Mike Williams.
- 2023
- 42:27
- Sigita Vegytė
- Vaida Pilibaitytė
- Adomas Zubė
The 11th: His Saturn Return
Winner of the 2022-23 Third Coast/RHDF Competition Directors' Choice Award, selected by the Third Coast International Audio Festival 2022-23 Listening Team.
Freedom Diving
Winner of the 2022-23 Third Coast/RHDF Competition Best Documentary: Bronze Award, selected by Final Round Judges Jimmy Gutierrez, Rachel Matlow, Melissa Mbugua, Priska Neely, and Mike Williams.
- 2023
- 32:43
- Phoebe Wang
- Neena Pathak
- Kia Miakka Natisse
'It started in the fourth grade building'
Winner of the 2022-23 Third Coast/RHDF Competition Best News Feature Award, selected by Final Round Judges Katherine Nagasawa, Habiba Nosheen, and Richard Yeh.
Life Partners
Winner of the 2022-23 Third Coast/RHDF Competition Best New Artist Award, selected by Final Round Judges Erisa Apantaku, Axel Kacoutié, and Alice Wilder.
- 2023
- 10:00
- Christina Hardinge
- Eleanor McDowall