Winners
Immerse your ears in the best audio documentaries and storytelling since 2001, the winners of the Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition.

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.
- 2016
- 03:00
- Todd Wemmer
- Sam Wemmer
- Belle Wemmer

Dear Face at Deer Lake with Deer People
A story about deer, a wonderful lake, internet privacy and who is the deer.
- 2016
- 02:56
- Dear Deer Face Collective

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

Burma’s Rohingya: Easy Prey for Traffickers
Myanmar's Rohingya Muslim population is one of the most persecuted minorities in the world.
- 2015
- 07:11
- Axel Kronholm
- Rob Sachs
- Flawn Williams
- Mia Lobel

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.
- 2015
- 57:05
- Madeleine Baran
- Sasha Aslanian

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.
- 2015
- 22:22
- Brendan Baker
- Briana Breen

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.
- 2015
- 19:14
- Lauren Spohrer
- Phoebe Judge

Structural Integrity
When it was built in 1977, the 59-story CitiCorp Center had a fatal flaw that could have caused the building to collapse, and take out the entire mid-town Manhattan skyline with it.
- 2015
- 21:54
- Joel Werner
- Sam Greenspan

Sounds Up There
Gravity director Alfonso Cuarón presented Glenn Freemantle with a challenge - to create authentic sound design in the vacuum of space.
- 2015
- 27:28
- Colin McNulty

Sight Unseen
In December of 2009, photojournalist Lynsey Addario was embedded with a medevac team in Afghanistan. After days of waiting, one night they got the call - a marine was gravely wounded.
- 2015
- 27:51
- Jad Abumrad
- Soren Wheeler

Who Took Mom to the Prom?
2015 ShortDocs Winner! A story of girls who say 'yes' that is 100% true.
- 2015
- 02:30
- Emer Horgan

What could be bad about this?
2015 ShortDocs Winner! What if you could learn to stop listening to other people?
- 2015
- 02:59
- John-Michael Forman

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.
- 2015
- 02:59
- Olivia Humphreys

Who Remembers My Father's Voice?
2015 ShortDocs Winner! I ask my family members if they remember what my father sounded like.
- 2015
- 03:00
- Pablo Duarte

Where do I find you now?
2015 People's ShortDoc Award Winner! An intimate conversation with Studs about the edges of life and death.
- 2015
- 03:00
- Sara Curtis

Burroughs at 100
Rock legend Iggy Pop presents an intimate portrait of William S. Burroughs on the 100th birthday of America's most cataclysmic author.
- 2014
- 56:27
- Colin McNulty

Help Wanted
There is currently no formal treatment or support for non-offending pedophiles who want help managing their attractions.
- 2014
- 25:57
- Luke Malone
- Robyn Semien

Chicago to Mexico, by Bus
Every week hundreds of people board coach buses in Chicago and travel to Mexico.
- 2014
- 11:47
- Linda Lutton

100 Songs in a Day
One way to earn money selling music is boring: write one hit and live off the royalties for the rest of your life.
- 2014
- 11:17
- Alex Goldman
- PJ Vogt

Here I Am and Here Be Danger
Here I Am and Here Be Danger is a non-narrated experiment in heartbreak.
- 2014
- 11:45
- Annie McEwen