TCF Award Recipients

Finding Emilie

While in college, Alan fell hard for a fellow art student, Emilie.

Crown the King: Red Takes Black

2012 ShortDocs Winner! One block from Adam Kampe's apartment sits the Capitol Pool Checkers Club where, each week, men with nicknames like the Hammer, the Pressure Man, and the Razor gather to trash talk over heated games of checkers.

2012
02:32
Adam Kampe

Keep Them Guessing

As a young boy, producer Jesse Cox discovered a set of old cassette tapes which turned out to be a hugely popular BBC radio show featuring his grandparents.

Weighing the Balance

Weighing the Balance evolved from a simple question: What happened to six men who were named and shamed in a very public news conference staged by the Toronto Police?

A Life Sentence: Victims, Offenders, Justice, and My Mother

The story of a terrible crime and everything that followed.

Not Safe to Drink

What would you do if your tap water turned brown?

Violación de un Sueño: Jornada Nocturna

Thousands of office janitors work at night, cleaning up our work spaces after we go home. Many are immigrants – some undocumented – and many are women. With these conditions, they are particularly vulnerable to sexual violence.

W. Kamau Bell asks his Mom about Sex

For most of his life, comedian W. Kamau Bell assumed his single mom never had sex after she made him.

And I Walked...Stories From the Border

Much of the Sonoran desert between Tucson and Mexico is a haunting wasteland of discarded shoes, shirts, and empty plastic water jugs, discarded by desparate illegal immigrants who risk their lives as they cross the desert from Mexico into the United States in search of better-paying jobs.

Mariya

Mariya Karimjee was a teenager in Texas when she first confronted her mother about the genital cutting she'd undergone as a child in Pakistan.

The Wire, Episode 5: The Sound Around

Somewhere between a documentary, a remix, and a music show, the eight-part series The Wire: The Impact of Electricity on Music, reflects on changes in both the composition and consumption of music over the past century.

Kyenkyen Bi Adi Mawu

This story is a window into the life of Mohammed Naseehu Ali, who left his home, family, and future in tribal government to become a musician and writer in America.

Goat on a Cow

Laura Starecheski finds herself figuratively falling down a rabbit hole (microphone and all) as she embarks on a journey that begins with the story of a goat, a cow, and a box of old letters.

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.

The 2003 TCF Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient: Joe Frank

The early days of the Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition included a Lifetime Achievement Award.

2003
16:23
Joe Frank

Too Many Miles

What if Robert Frost's poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” were re-imagined as a film?

Blink Once for Yes

When Mike comes home, his family is faced with a new reality and an impossible choice.

Scared

2008 ShortDocs Winner! The bittersweet fear of watching your child grow up.

2008
03:00
John Biewen

S-Town

S-Town is hard to describe. It’s a podcast that starts as a traditional investigation into corruption and wrongdoing in rural Alabama.

2017
08:05
Brian Reed
Julie Snyder

Blackbird Pot Pie: Not the Pie Umami Made

2013 People's ShortDoc Award Winner! For some South Jersey residents, "Sing a Song of Sixpence" is more than just a nursery rhyme; it's supper.

HATCH

A man, in orbit, going round and round...

2016
02:29
Geoff McQueen

What makes a good marriage?

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.