2015 ShortDocs Challenge: Studs Rules
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What's in a hand?
2015 / 03:03
Their daughter has twelve fingers, twelve toes, some fused together and some set askew – ain't nothing but a family thing.
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What if we gave heroes hot chocolate?
2015 / 02:19
Eight-year-old Lydia was a customer in a jewelry store when robbers stormed the counter.
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Why is the siren still singing?
2015 / 02:30
An evocative documentary about the sound and history of the foghorn at Lizard Point in Cornwall, UK.
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Why hasn't anyone let the cat out of the bag?
2015 / 02:59
Animals often have amazing life stories, but no one can hear them because they can't talk.
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Who Do I Come From
2015 / 02:34
My grandfather, John Frank Noyes, is the only person who remembers our family's homestead in Wyoming; he died this winter.
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What happens when a horn and dog get together?
2015 / 02:27
An unexpected jam session with a dog and an alto saxophone.
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When romantic comedy meets reality...
2015 / 02:51
This is a record of the most common kind of love story: the kind that fails.
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What Makes A Bird Shape Your Life
2015 / 03:00
Richard Browne speaks about his life and passion as a falconer.
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What Kind of Relationship Did You Have With Your Dad?
2015 / 03:00
A mother shares the unusual way she came to learn her father loved her.
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When Women Go Gray or Dye
2015 / 03:00
Women contemplate and celebrate the choice to let their hair go gray.
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What Should I Get?
2015 / 03:00
Megan Williams talks to a Jewish vendor who sells Catholic objects in Rome.
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What's in a car?
2015 / 03:00
Lourdes Mello's late husband bought her a Mustang convertible in 1989; the car is badly broken now, but she holds on to it for the memories.
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What happens when a statistic becomes your life?
2015 / 02:29
Over 44 million people live with dementia worldwide, but it is not until it affects you directly that you realise the impact the disease can have on your life.
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Why Remember Her?
2015 / 0
Judith Mason's blue, plastic dress hangs humbly from a wire hanger in the Constitutional Court of South Africa; its story represents one of the many stories of unsung heroes in South Africa's history.
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Where did they ghost?
2015 / 02:55
The story of “ghost” through interviews, films, music and instructional videos.
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What can I do now that they've chopped me up little by little?
2015 / 03:00
Carlos Cardenas finds hope after losing a leg to diabetes.
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What's The Worst Pain You've Ever Experienced?
2015 / 03:00
Irukandji; an invisible, thumbnail sized jellyfish whose sting causes unimaginable pain.
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Why did leaving the armed forces nearly kill you?
2015 / 03:01
Leaving the armed forces had serious consequences for Paul Boucher's health.
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When I Couldn't Sleep
2015 / 02:42
A prisoner of an antebellum asylum express his horror in a letter to his sister.
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What Do They Want?
2015 / 02:30
A Chicago nanny stumbles upon an existential dilemma while buying Christmas gifts for her charges.
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What made him do something different?
2015 / 03:00
A teacher on the first day of the job encounters an 8th grader with a swastika tattoo.
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What do you look forward to, Aai?
2015 / 02:59
The producer's grandma reflects on growing old in a country that's not her home.
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What happened when you caught a toadfish?
2015 / 03:00
Liam tells Sam about his adventures on a trip to Bali and Sri Lanka.
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What's It Like Inside Your Head?
2015 / 03:03
This dreamy short doc considers people's inner worlds, and asks whether we even have total access to our own.
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Where do I find you now?
2015 / 03:00
2015 People's ShortDoc Award Winner! An intimate conversation with Studs about the edges of life and death.
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Who is Betty?
2015 / 02:25
Carol found Betty abandoned in rural Utah and gave her a new, loving home.
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Why Mr. SKREEJEE?
2015 / 02:35
An interview concerning a tale of trial and tribulation from the heart of Mr.SKREEJEE – a half-dog, half-gorilla, half human member of a fictitious landmine lookout patrol.
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Who Remembers My Father's Voice?
2015 / 03:00
2015 ShortDocs Winner! I ask my family members if they remember what my father sounded like.
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Why does my Dad have ten clocks?
2015 / 03:00
I find out why my Dad, David, is so fascinated with clocks and explore what makes him tick.
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What can I do? Please not my daughter too!
2015 / 02:40
Many women's voices become one experience of abuse.
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Who's A Good Girl?
2015 / 02:58
My mother's trials as a pet owner—and as a parent—go on the record when I do a story about “puppy kindergarten.”
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Who lives, who dies?
2015 / 03:00
Ten years later, a survivor reflects on the fragility of life and the random ruin caused by the worst natural disaster in living memory, the Boxing Day tsunami of 2004, a day when nearly 250,000 people perished across 14 countries, one third of them, children.
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Why the supernatural is always natural in cultural sociopsychological context
2015 / 03:00
Science has severe problems dealing with the supernatural...
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What is a Bear Cat?
2015 / 02:53
Bluff and Family describe the horrors of the Georgian Legend of The Bearcat.
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What Hairy Moments Have You Had?
2015 / 02:53
Every motorcyclist you ever speak to has a story to tell.
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Where the Hell is My Paper, Ms. Gerdes?
2015 / 03:00
During my first year in the classroom I misplace a student's paper but find a little bit of humility.
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Where Did He Go: Ogichan, Grandad?
2015 / 03:01
A granddaughter tells us about her grandfather's funeral.
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When Will We Lose It?
2015 / 03:00
Between sea level rise and a disappearing coastline it feels inevitable that life as we know it in New Orleans is on a limited run, but how much time do we have?
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When We March Into The Arctic of the Unknown
2015 / 03:04
One in a million... Maria's chronicle of shameless acceptance.
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Where would you go?
2015 / 02:03
For young people who live in some of the most dangerous neighborhoods in the western hemisphere, the passage north is often just as hard as staying.
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When did you know?
2015 / 03:02
Two people. Two stories. Two significant moments when everything changed: discovering sexuality and surviving sexual assault.
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Where is the Extinction Capital of the World?
2015 / 02:21
A wildlife biologist shares a surprising fact about Hawaii's native species.
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What's in a name?
2015 / 03:07
One man decides the best way to break from the past is to change his name.
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What Lies in a Voicemail?
2015 / 03:00
We can measure distance in miles, but the heartache it causes is indefinable.
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Why would anyone, in his right mind, jump into Lake Michigan in the middle of a Chicago Winter?
2015 / 02:58
The polar plunge: a story of cold water and warm hearts.
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What is Alpha-1?
2015 / 02:59
What is the personal experience of having Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency (Alpha-1)?
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When was the Freest You Ever Felt in Your Life?
2015 / 02:56
I asked many people when was the freest they'd ever felt in their lives. This is one person's story.
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When we lose our breath
2015 / 02:55
I placed a large resonating tube in a public library for a full day and invited people to stick their heads in, hold their breath, and then answer the question: “What makes you breathless?”
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What is Indiana?
2015 / 02:59
In three scenes and a whole life spent in and out of the state, I attempt to answer the question, "What is Indiana?"
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What Do You Hear When A Plane Engine Dies in the Air?
2015 / 03:00
Robin Holleran's life was forever changed the day she survived a plane crash.
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When Bad Jobs Happen to Good People: "After Working, Crap & Go"
2015 / 02:10
The life and hard times of a truck-stop attendant in the spirit of a Studs Terkel encounter.
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What could be bad about this?
2015 / 02:59
2015 ShortDocs Winner! What if you could learn to stop listening to other people?
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What Do Role Models Have To Tell Us Today About Living Well?
2015 / 03:00
How a simple timeless truth can create intimacy, transform relationships and improve our lives forever.
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Why Eat Ice Cream For Dinner?
2015 / 03:00
Sometimes, getting lost and having ice cream for dinner is the best thing that can happen.
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Why Wasn't I Named Smith?
2015 / 03:00
A family talks about what it was like to have the same name as the most hated person in America.
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Where did the ice come from?
2015 / 02:59
Three generations of women discuss ice and death in the Amana Colonies.
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What do you think of when you think of stars?
2015 / 03:00
A love story that begins over the phone and under the stars.
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Why they scream
2015 / 03:05
By the end of the century half of the world's languages will no longer be spoken, this is one scream of resistance.
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What happened to Greg? And what happens to him next?
2015 / 02:57
Sometimes the way we respond to a suicide says more about us than the person who died.
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What?? No way...
2015 / 02:59
The First in a series of Short Radio Documentaries, this episode focuses on: "Order 9066."
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What was it about marriage anyway?
2015 / 02:49
A distilled conversation between Erica Jong and Studs Terkel, remixed with music.
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What Happens to Orphan Photos?
2015 / 03:00
Photographs are some of our most treasured objects, leagues of people are dedicated to their preservation, but what happens to the pictures that've lost their way?
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What was left?
2015 / 02:54
Morgan Lennon describes a kind of loss that is not uncommon to women, though rarely spoken about.
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When is there nothing to see?
2015 / 02:57
Sometimes attention to detail is not part of the job description.
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Who I Was and Why I Was
2015 / 03:00
In 1968 a young art student accepts what turns out to be a very strange commission to make a painting.
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Who Is Nina West?
2015 / 03:00
Andrew was working as an artist and performer for years before he decided to tell his family about it.
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What is it like to be one of the first?
2015 / 02:57
When Sergeant Carrie Lopes joined the Provincetown Police Department, she was one of the only women on the force; thirty years later, she reflects on sexual harassment experienced at the beginning of her career.
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What does that do?
2015 / 03:00
Dr Christine Blancher, at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics in Oxford, talks us through one of the big DNA sequencers they use to produce the string of letters (A, T, G, and C) which is your unique genetic code.
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Why Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways
2015 / 03:00
Brian thinks maths is beautiful, and would like to tell you why.
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What we doing now, Misi boy?
2015 / 03:00
Two seniors in Punahou High School in Honolulu, Hawaii share their tender voices and cries of laughter as they sing us the story of their friendship and community in Hawaii.
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Why Not?
2015 / 02:57
I met Why Not? while searching for 78RPM records of traditional Saing Waing music in Myanmar.
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What Darko Said
2015 / 03:00
My Burmese friend Darko teaches us that pop music in Myanmar is defined by the cover song.
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What is a Food Desert?
2015 / 02:21
Using the poetry and commentary of Kuumba Lynx (a Chicago-based hip hop coalition) this sound art piece investigates how institutional disinvestments in Chicago's South Side communities have affected its residents' nutritional health.
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Who Brings the Heat?
2015 / 03:00
In this mockumentary piece, June Jensen must find a way to keep her hot dish hot on the way to the church potluck.
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What will she read tonight?
2015 / 02:55
Three of the founders of the Women's Prison Book Project in Minneapolis talk about their memories and experiences in the early years.
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Quien soy yo, Quien era yo, Quien será él (Who I am, Who I was, Who He Will Be)
2015 / 03:00
Jimmy Arteaga, a street juggler from Ecuador, reflects on his childhood and his child.
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When did I get turned around?
2015 / 02:25
An exploration of the cacophony and cyclical nature of life.
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Where are all the flowers from?
2015 / 02:58
A little seaside town on the West Coast of Ireland wears floral posies for the children of Gaza.
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When does life begin?
2015 / 03:00
Two women go to the hospital with pain in their stomach but each one is on a very different journey.
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Why did you cut your hair?
2015 / 02:44
The humour, the pain, and the liberation of a simple haircut.
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What was it like meeting JFK?
2015 / 02:58
Interview with my grandma Jane about when she met JFK and how his assassination affected her.
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Why Are You Wearing Roadkill?
2015 / 02:47
The remarkable hat worn by a man on a park bench in Santa Fe plaza begs an explanation.
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Where do pigeons go when they die?
2015 / 02:59
There are so many pidgeons in London, but why do you never see a dead one?
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Who works harder than this immigrant?
2015 / 02:00
Zamina, originially from Trinidad, is a seamstress by day and a restauranteur by night.
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Where It's Not Junk
2015 / 02:58
This is a story about what we sometimes do with the stuff that we don't use anymore.
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What happened that time I don't remember?
2015 / 02:56
I ask my mother about the moment that defines her life and mine that I don't remember.
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Where to get a bagel
2015 / 02:59
In this exploration into the bagel feud between bagel shops St-Viateur and Fairmount, I speak with customers, employees and bagel connoisseurs alike to try and discover why people choose one bagel shop over the other.
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Who is Little Lulu?
2015 / 02:39
A 5th grade girl interviews a classmate about his interest in Little Lulu.
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When you follow two children on the most chocolatey day of the year
2015 / 02:31
Aoife (6) and Aoibhinn (3) were followed around with a microphone, and at times took matters into their own hands!
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When Nothing Turns Out the Way We Would Ever Expect
2015 / 03:00
Mixed with found hums from a used voice recorder, a furniture repair and vintage store-owner recollects his father's diversions, weaknesses, and love for people.
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What is beyond both dream and sleep
2015 / 03:00
One man's spiritual journey, made possible through chanting.
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What Grandad didn't tell us.
2015 / 03:00
A look at the relationship between grandfather and grandson, and the stories people leave behind.
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What happened to my car?
2015 / 02:59
A St. Paul woman's 1997 Honda is in high demand around her neighborhood.
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Where Have All the Cars Gone?
2015 / 03:00
Becca and Hunter discover CicLAvia, a place where no cars go.
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What happened during the 1967 tornado?
2015 / 03:00
An unforgettable story of survival, loss, and gratitude from a traumatic small town tornado.
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Who Are You and What Do You Do?
2015 / 03:00
A short conversation about monks & music with Taraka Larsen of Prince Rama.
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What's Your Mexico Story?
2015 / 03:00
My dad buys a ridiculous leather jacket in Mexico which leads to trouble with the local youth.
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What is your Mexico Story?
2015 / 03:00
Two students of Mexican heritage have the opportunity to travel to different parts of Mexico to explore their roots.
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Where Did Cheney Put the War Heads?
2015 / 03:00
John Perry Barlow and Dick Cheney were on different sides of the MX missile proposal during the Cold War, and after years of retrospect, Barlow credits Cheney for helping prevent nuclear holocaust.
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What is Etched in Stone?
2015 / 03:00
My Grandfather and Uncle recount their days as hand carving monumental sculptors in Ireland.
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What does your name mean?
2015 / 03:00
A mother and father reflect on what their child's name means and the incredible story of the destiny of the name.
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What's in a hand?
2015 / 03:03
Their daughter has twelve fingers, twelve toes, some fused together and some set askew – ain't nothing but a family thing.
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Who Took Mom to the Prom?
2015 / 02:30
2015 ShortDocs Winner! A story of girls who say 'yes' that is 100% true.
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What makes a good marriage?
2015 / 02:59
2015 ShortDocs Winner! My grandparents, now in their 90s and married for nearly 70 years, tell me about when they met and give their advice on a long and happy marriage.