Winners
Immerse your ears in the best audio documentaries and storytelling since 2001, the winners of the Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition.
This Is Not A Drill
An emotional dive into the personal impact of the false missile alert that was sent out across Hawaii.
Time Bandit
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- 2021
- 23:59
- Sean Cole
Teen Contender
Sixteen-year-old Claressa Shields has a dream, to be at the 2012 Olympic finals and hear the announcer call out, "The first woman Olympian boxer at 165 pounds - Claressa Shields!"
- 2012
- 15:37
- Joe Richman
- Samara Freemark
- Sue Jaye Johnson
The Traffic Stop
On July 6, 2016, Philando Castile was pulled over by Officer Jeronimo Yanez for a broken brake light. 74 seconds later, Yanez fired seven shots.
- 2017
- 20:44
- Tracy Mumford
- Hans Buetow
- Riham Feshir
- Jon Collins
Too Many Miles
What if Robert Frost's poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” were re-imagined as a film?
- 2016
- 02:33
- Stephanie Rowden
- Jennifer Metsker
Teenage Diaries Revisited Melissa's Story
As an 19-year-old raised in the foster care system, Melissa took NPR listeners along when she gave birth to her son Issaiah.
- 2014
- 19:34
- Joe Richman
- Sarah Kate Kramer
'Til Death Do Us Part
2006 ShortDocs Winner! Producer Sasha Aslanian's divorced parents listen to audio of their 1963 wedding vows, remember what went wrong, but still can't get over each other.
- 2006
- 02:30
- Sasha Aslanian
Talk to Me About Love
2006 ShortDocs Winner! Two curious siblings finally get what they think they've always wanted.
- 2006
- 02:30
- David Whitcomb
- Jill Dorothy Summers
Tracking
Jaimita Haskell was given the opportunity to take advanced classes at her high school, an experience she found stimulating and rewarding.
- 2003
- 08:47
- Czerina Patel
- Jaimita Haskell
- Marianne McCune
This Can Go On Forever
Eighteen years after Carol gave up her son for adoption, she still believed they would meet again.
- 2010
- 10:25
- Shea Shackelford
- Virginia Millington
There Was a Whole Lotta Hundreds...
In America's high schools, students are playing a game whose only rule is to break the rules.
- 2005
- 06:11
- Michael Kavanagh
Tongues Twisting
Clapping games and tongue twisters in multiple languages turn into rich stories when Judith Sloan records young immigrants in a theatre workshop.
- 2005
- 07:20
- Judith Sloan
The Trap
2007 ShortDocs Winner! Here's a rumination on the ethics of pest killing and attempts at avoidance of the graphic nature thereof.
- 2007
- 03:02
- David Maxon
Tornado Prom
Susan Burton reports on Prom Night 2001 in Hoisington, Kansas, a town of about 3,000. While the seniors danced, a tornado hit the town, destroying about a third of it.
- 2001
- 25:06
- Susan Burton
Three Records From Sundown
Nick Drake died in 1974, an unknown songwriter with three failed folk albums to his name. But fast forward to the present, and Drake is considered among the most important musicians of his time.
- 2009
- 27:03
- Charles Maynes
Thembi's AIDS Diary
In South Africa more than five million people are living with HIV/AIDS, including a young woman named Thembi Ngubane.
- 2006
- 23:30
- Joe Richman
- Anayansi Diaz-Cortes
Thirteen Ways
Writer Sam Swope visits a class of restless, imaginative 11-year-olds in Queens, New York, where he embraces the challenge of teaching them Wallace Stevens' poem "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird."
- 2004
- 18:40
- Pejk Malinovski