TCF Award Recipients

Los Cassettes del Exilio

For much of Dennis Maxwell’s childhood, his father was living in exile, communicating with the family via cassette tapes.

2017
25:02
Dennis Maxwell

Heavyweight: Gregor

20 years ago, Gregor lent some CDs to a musician friend. The CDs helped make him a famous rockstar.

Emancipation: A Young Man Leaves Foster Care on His Own Terms

Days after his 21st birthday, Noel Anaya had one final hearing before aging out of California’s foster care system, and he didn’t want to go through it alone.

Blink Once for Yes

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

The Accidental Gay Parents, Episode 5

After adopting their niece and nephew, Trystan -- a transgender man -- tells his partner Biff that he wants to expand their family and conceive a baby together. Which they do.

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.

Why Do I Stay?

When Rainy was 17, she met a producer named Courtney Stein from WNYC’s Radio Rookies.

2016
30:33
Courtney Stein
Rainy

The Double

Thirteen years ago, in Viborg, Denmark, lived two young men with the same name: Thomas Andersen.

A Sentencing Hearing

On August 1, 2015 Glendale Police Officer Eric Guse received a call about a carjacking that would change his life.

Not Safe to Drink

What would you do if your tap water turned brown?

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

The story of a terrible crime and everything that followed.

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.

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.

Journey

A spare and gripping account of one family's journey fleeing violence in Afghanistan.

2016
09:21
Jamil

Dead Mom Talking

"If you want to talk to me when I'm dead, go to the bench."

2016
12:50
Rachel Matlow

HATCH

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

2016
02:29
Geoff McQueen

I dream of rattlesnakes

A contemplation of the return of rattlesnakes to Massachusetts.

Dear Face at Deer Lake with Deer People

A story about deer, a wonderful lake, internet privacy and who is the deer.

Too Many Miles

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

Burma’s Rohingya: Easy Prey for Traffickers

Myanmar's Rohingya Muslim population is one of the most persecuted minorities in the world.

Betrayed by Silence

Betrayed by Silence takes listeners inside the clergy sex abuse scandal in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis to find out how and why three archbishops protected priests who sexually abused children.

Britney

Andrea is a writer who no one reads. Her second novel bombed. She never saw anyone reading it. That is until 2008.

2015
44:30
Starlee Kine

Mayday Mayday

During the dying minutes of April 2003, as the Cornish town of Padstow celebrated the coming of summer, actor Tristan Sturrock broke his neck falling off a wall.

2015
43:43
Becky Ripley

The Living Room

Diane's new neighbors never shut their curtains, and that was the beginning of an intimate, but very one-sided relationship.

695BGK

Police officer John Edwards was patrolling a quiet neighborhood in Bellaire, Texas, when he saw an SUV driven by two young African-American men.