Winners
Immerse your ears in the best audio documentaries and storytelling since 2001, the winners of the Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition.
Death in Illinois Prisons: He Didn't Have a Death Sentence, But That's What He Got
For the last year, Shannon Heffernan has been trying to figure out how and why people in Illinois prisons are dying.
- 2019
- 06:50
- Shannon Heffernan
Dat Rona
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
Diary of a HomeSchooler
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
Dear Face at Deer Lake with Deer People
A story about deer, a wonderful lake, internet privacy and who is the deer.
- 2016
- 02:56
- Dear Deer Face Collective
The Dead Can't Do You Nothin'
Producer Katie Mingle narrates her quest to find ghosts in a "pauper's graveyard" in New Orleans.
- 2007
- 10:53
- Katie Mingle
Dinner at the Blind Cow
From the moment you enter the restaurant's dining room, you're in complete darkness. Blind waiters take your order, help you find your water glass, and lead you to the bathroom as needed.
- 2004
- 07:47
- Adam Burke
Dawn at Chicago's Magic Hedge
Summer 2009: A field recording from of The Magic Hedge, where Chicago receives the dawn and migratory birds in lakefront silence.
- 2009
- 02:18
- Noe Cuellar
Deportations Before Reform: Anatomy of an Immigration Bust
As lawmakers continued to debate immigration reform in 2010, the Obama administration pushed for a path to citizenship.
- 2011
- 08:56
- Marianne McCune
Dear Birth Mother
After waiting for Mr. Right (who has yet to arrive) and experiencing years of fertility treatments, Suzanne, a single woman in her 40s, decides to adopt an African-American baby.
- 2005
- 28:44
- Dan Collison
- Elizabeth Meister
Don't Hang Up 2: Nightlines
Would you pick up a ringing payphone and share your life with a complete stranger? Alan Dein hopes so.
- 2007
- 02:58
- Alan Dein
- Mark Burman
Dr. Phil
In the wake of a break-up, writer Starlee Kine finds so much comfort in break-up songs that she tries to write one herself, even though she has no musical ability whatsoever.
- 2008
- 29:13
- Starlee Kine
Dreaming of Osama
Dreaming of Osama explores the ever-moving boundaries of the "war on terror" and its influence on the collective unconscious. Osama Bin Laden has a way of lying low -- then, just as the public begins to forget about him, he makes an unexpected reappearance.
- 2008
- 28:02
- Pejk Malinovski
Dead Mom Talking
"If you want to talk to me when I'm dead, go to the bench."
- 2016
- 12:50
- Rachel Matlow
The Double
Thirteen years ago, in Viborg, Denmark, lived two young men with the same name: Thomas Andersen.
- 2016
- 43:37
- Thomas Arent Andersen
The Discussion
Some friends can talk about anything. There's no subject too secret or content too confronting.
- 2017
- 16:31
- Rosa Gollan
Death Comes Home
Death Comes Home is a portrait of three families who have chosen to forego the funeral director and prescribed memorial to instead care for their dead at home.
- 2009
- 51:10
- April Dembosky
The Dribble-Down Effect
Blending satire, drama, and interviews, this Australian documentary portrays a not-so-distant future where robots care for children and parents agree to live apart from their families during the work week.
- 2003
- 33:37
- Eurydice Aroney
The Diary of Leanne Wolfe
Leanne Wolfe, an 18-year-old schoolgirl in Cork, Ireland, committed suicide in March, 2007. On the morning of her funeral, her older sister Treena discovered Leanne's diaries.
- 2008
- 37:26
- Ciaran Cassidy