Winners
Immerse your ears in the best audio documentaries and storytelling since 2001, the winners of the Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition.
The Return
Javier Zamora was born in El Salvador and his grandparents still live there. But visiting them didn't feel like the home he once knew.
- 2019
- 31:10
- Sayre Quevedo
ROW-cub
A granddaughter and a grandmother try to communicate across generations, languages and phone lines.
- 2024
- 04:21
- Neena Pathak
The Ring & I: The Passion, The Myth, The Mania
The grandeur and power of Wagner's monumental work, The Ring Cycle, has permeated our culture to the point that "Wagnerian" is used as an adjective.
- 2005
- 58:58
- Aaron Cohen
- Elena Park
- Jad Abumrad
Red White & Bruised
2012 ShortDocs Winner! Don Floyd looks back on his life of eighty years, after surviving a heart attack in March of 2012.
- 2012
- 02:57
- Brian Barnhart Jr
- John Musto
Remembering Andrew
On August 24, 1992, Hurricane Andrew slammed into Miami-Dade County changing the landscape of South Florida forever.
The Red, White, and Blue Bus
2012 ShortDocs Winner! The familiar faces of the red, white and blue bus, whose lives I will never know.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Luke Eldridge
Roger Dowds: Millionaire Winner
Roger Dowds wasn't exactly an obvious pick for a game show contestant. He'd lived a quiet, sheltered life and had little faith in himself.
- 2006
- 27:10
- Ronan Kelly
Riding Through the Summer
Pilsen, 2009: Chicago summer is full of life and full of sound - you can hear it best on two wheels.
- 2009
- 03:34
- Katie Mingle
The Real Tom Banks
Tom Banks is 23, gay and searching for love.
- 2014
- 18:12
- Jesse Cox
- Timothy Nicastri
The Rules Will Be Different
For one recount lawyer in Florida, the political became personal in the wake of the 2000 presidential election.
- 2005
- 07:59
- Melissa Allison
Rhapsody in Bohemia
"Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen is one of the most ambitious and enduring pop songs of all time.
- 2005
- 27:33
- Alan Hall
Remembering Kent State, 1970
When Ohio National Guard troops opened fire on students during a war demonstration on the Kent State University Campus in May, 1970, four young lives were ended and a nation was stunned.
- 2002
- 0
- Mark Urycki
Rip, Rift, and Panic
Rip, Rift, and Panic weaves together stories, archival tape, and sound to create a portrait of the emotional and logistical aspects of living along an earthquake fault line.
- 2001
- 29:33
- Susan Stone