2015 Third Coast / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition



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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.