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 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
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
Muriel's Message
Memories of a much beloved grandmother resurface when a box of unlabeled audio cassettes is discovered in the basement.
- 2006
- 06:28
- Mira Burt-Wintonick
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.
- 2005
- 28:44
- Dan Collison
- Elizabeth Meister
The Lonely Funeral
Every year up to twenty people die completely alone in Amsterdam. They are illegal migrants, drug mules, or simply people who cut off all social contacts.
- 2010
- 26:55
- Michele Ernsting
The Vietnam Tapes of Lance Corporal Michael A. Baronowski
The Vietnam Tapes of Lance Corporal Michael A. Baronowki presents the recovered tapes of a young marine who kept an audio diary of his war experience in Vietnam until his death.
- 2001
- 22:38
- Christina Egloff
- Jay Allison
Capturing the Brief Life and Death of an Infant
Barch Levi Blum was born in late 2009 at Toronto's Mt. Sinai Hospital. He lived for ten minutes.
- 2010
- 06:15
- Mary Beth Kirchner
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
Willie McGee and the Traveling Electric Chair
On the night of May 7th, 1951, a thousand people gathered in Laurel, Mississippi, to witness the execution of Willie McGee, a black man convicted of raping a white woman.
- 2010
- 22:59
- Joe Richman
- Samara Freemark
An Interior Life
A meditation on love, loss and loneliness in south London, An Interior Life tells the story of Bernard, an 86-year-old gay man who has been alone since the death of his long term partner.
- 2010
- 07:31
- Laurence Grissell
Cooler by the Lake
A classical composer, Stuart Brocklehurst, attempts to deal with his writer's block through environmental field recording.
- 2009
- 06:14
- Laura Vitale
- Rick Moody
Fidele Musafiri: Miner
Cell phones and laptops rely on a particular mineral called colombite tantalum – coltan for short - and the growing demand for the material in the west has had ramifications in some pretty distant corners of the world.
- 2009
- 07:52
- Gregory Warner
A Lucky Wind
Do we live in a world where there is magic and meaning, or is it all just chance?
- 2009
- 19:28
- Jad Abumrad
- Soren Wheeler
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
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
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
Learning to Live: James's Story
James, an ex-felon, narrates the story of his transition from prison-life to self-sufficiency.
- 2001
- 29:03
- Dan Collison
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
Jay's Kids
Blues musician Screamin' Jay Hawkins had 57 children, some of whom were happier than others to learn of their father's prolific paternity.
- 2001
- 22:56
- Alix Spiegel
Heroin
In Heroin, teenager Janesse Nieves confronts her father about his heroin addiction, and eloquently shares her own feelings of confusion, anger, embarrassment and disgust.
- 2001
- 08:27
- Czerina Patel
- Janesse Nieves
- Marianne McCune
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
Hearing Voices
Hearing Voices is a compelling and adventurous exploration of languages on the verge of extinction.
- 2005
- 28:40
- John Wynne
Perfect Hearing
Nubar Alexanian and his 14-year-old daughter Abby examine how his tinnitus and her hearing loss have affected their lives and shaped their relationship.
- 2004
- 13:20
- Abby Alexanian
- Jay Allison
- Nubar Alexanian
A Map of the Sea
For centuries, Newfoundland fisheries were hailed as the greatest in the world. Then, in 1992, their main export, the codfish, disappeared.
- 2005
- 14:58
- Chris Brookes
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.
- 2005
- 14:31
- Czerina Patel
- Samr "Rocky" Tayeh