2015 Third Coast / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition
This year we honored the best audio work in the following categories: Best Documentary (Gold, Silver, Bronze, Honorable Mention), Directors Choice, Best New Artist, Best News Feature and Skylarking.
Winners were celebrated at the Third Coast Awards Ceremony in Chicago, and their stories featured in Best of the Best: The 2015 Third Coast Festival Broadcast.
Sight Unseen
Winner of the 2015 Third Coast / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition Best Documentary: Gold Award
In December of 2009, photojournalist Lynsey Addario was embedded with a medevac team in Afghanistan. After days of waiting, one night they got the call - a marine was gravely wounded.
- 2015
- 27:51
- Jad Abumrad
- Soren Wheeler
Structural Integrity
Winner of the 2015 Third Coast / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition Best Documentary: Bronze Award
When it was built in 1977, the 59-story CitiCorp Center had a fatal flaw that could have caused the building to collapse, and take out the entire mid-town Manhattan skyline with it.
- 2015
- 21:54
- Joel Werner
- Sam Greenspan
Sounds Up There
Winner of the 2015 Third Coast / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition Best Documentary: Bronze Award
Gravity director Alfonso Cuarón presented Glenn Freemantle with a challenge - to create authentic sound design in the vacuum of space.
- 2015
- 27:28
- Colin McNulty
695BGK
Winner of the 2015 Third Coast / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition Best Documentary: Honorable Mention Award
Police officer John Edwards was patrolling a quiet neighborhood in Bellaire, Texas, when he saw an SUV driven by two young African-American men.
- 2015
- 19:14
- Lauren Spohrer
- Phoebe Judge
The Living Room
Winner of the 2015 Third Coast / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition Director's Choice Award
Diane's new neighbors never shut their curtains, and that was the beginning of an intimate, but very one-sided relationship.
- 2015
- 22:22
- Brendan Baker
- Briana Breen
Mayday Mayday
Winner of the 2015 Third Coast / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition Best New Artist Award
During the dying minutes of April 2003, as the Cornish town of Padstow celebrated the coming of summer, actor Tristan Sturrock broke his neck falling off a wall.
- 2015
- 43:43
- Becky Ripley
Britney
Winner of the 2015 Third Coast / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition Skylarking Award
Andrea is a writer who no one reads. Her second novel bombed. She never saw anyone reading it. That is until 2008.
- 2015
- 44:30
- Starlee Kine
Betrayed by Silence
Winner of the 2015 Third Coast / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition Radio Impact Award
Betrayed by Silence takes listeners inside the clergy sex abuse scandal in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis to find out how and why three archbishops protected priests who sexually abused children.
- 2015
- 57:05
- Madeleine Baran
- Sasha Aslanian
Burma’s Rohingya: Easy Prey for Traffickers
Winner of the 2015 Third Coast / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition Best News Feature Award
Myanmar's Rohingya Muslim population is one of the most persecuted minorities in the world.
- 2015
- 07:11
- Axel Kronholm
- Rob Sachs
- Flawn Williams
- Mia Lobel