TCF Award Recipients

PCAF

A Hoosier attends a show at the lofty, hipster-run Shape Shoppe recording studio, in Chicago.

2009
03:02
Zachary Baiel

My Way or the FBI Way

A year ago, a swat team broke down the door of a home in downtown St. Paul and found eight Molotov cocktails inside.

2009
36:12
Michael May

Battle Flagging Father

In 2009, Brisbane-based writer and documentarian Hamish Sewell traveled to Alabama to meet his estranged father for the first time in nearly 30 years.

2009
46:55
Hamish Sewell

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

Forbidden Love: Genetic Sexual Attraction

Ontario is the most recent province in Canada to open up adoption files in order to help birth families and adoptees find one another. But there is a disconcerting, though rare, consequence of adoptive reunions.

Lovable Losers

Feel the passion, feel the pain of the faithful followers of Chicago's Lovable Losers.

2009
02:58
Rich Halten

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

Hard to Say

State park ranger Ed Werler lives alone in a quiet, isolated area of Maine. At the age of 90, Ed reflects on his second marriage, revealing a relationship characterized by love, loyalty, and uncertainty.

2004
05:57
Bente Birkland

Legs, Hope, and Water

Traditionally a country of emigration, Greece is now a destination for immigrants and refugees seeking to enter Europe.

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.

A Fragile Son

Surjit Sachdev grew up in a conservative family in India. Surjit's father was an engineer, and he's an engineer, but the family tradition ended when Surjit's son was born with a severe mental disability.

The Search for Edna Lavilla

In 1942, Edna Lavilla Haynes died from a backyard abortion. After her death Edna was never mentioned again.

2007 TC Audio Luminary: Peter Leonhard Braun

The Third Coast Audio Luminary Award is presented annually to an individual who is greatly admired for his or her significant and ongoing contributions to the field of radio. Hats off to the 2007 Audio Luminary - widely esteemed producer, teacher, and mentor Peter Leonhard Braun.

Thembi's AIDS Diary

In South Africa more than five million people are living with HIV/AIDS, including a young woman named Thembi Ngubane.

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

Between Friends

"Between Friends" is the story of one woman's coming to terms with being sexually victimized by her father.

The Few Who Stayed: Defying Genocide in Rwanda

Weaving together archival footage, new interviews and personal recordings, The Few Who Stayed: Defying Genocide in Rwanda presents a unique look at the Rwandan genocide of 1994.

My Struggle With Obesity

Fifteen-year-old Rocky, a Palestinian American, lives with his parents and siblings in Brooklyn. Three times the size of his twin sister, Rocky is the target of his siblings' jokes and insults.