Winners
Immerse your ears in the best audio documentaries and storytelling since 2001, the winners of the Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition.
In the Dark: Season Two
Over the course of two decades, prosecutor Doug Evans tried the same man six times for the same crime. But that man, Curtis Flowers, maintained his innocence throughout.
Infinities
Concerning mental illness, toxic workplace environments, Egyptian Rat Screw, and the nature of infinity.
- 2020
- 25:13
- Boen Wang
Inventions in Sound
To experience this award-winning piece in full, including a subtitled video, a transcript, closer captions, and more, click here.
- 2021
- 27:36
- Raymond Antrobus
- Eleanor McDowall
'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.
I dream of rattlesnakes
A contemplation of the return of rattlesnakes to Massachusetts.
- 2016
- 03:00
- Todd Wemmer
- Sam Wemmer
- Belle Wemmer
If
A young patient reinvents his experience of being in the hospital through metaphor and allusion. Responding to "what if" questions, Andrew exemplifies the transformative qualities of fantasy, empathy, and humor.
- 2002
- 07:39
- John Jacobs
- Sherre DeLys
Is That My Imagination?
2008 ShortDocs Winner! The story of a mind on strike.
- 2008
- 03:00
- Meghan Vigeant
I've Never Lived in Chicago
A docu-song about a broken dream, made from interview tape.
- 2009
- 02:16
- Jonathan Mitchell
In So Many Words
Stephen Goff's life changed dramatically after a stroke left him with aphasia. Previously an outspoken father and salesman, the condition reduced his vocabulary to just a few words.
- 2004
- 22:18
- Teresa Goff