ShortDocs
Discover hundreds of short audio gems produced in response to a prompt from Third Coast for the ShortDocs Competition, hosted between 2003 and 2016. Each year ushered in a new set of rules, new creative partners, and ever-more magical results.
All You Need is a Wall - 7
The problems regarding journeying through a metaphorical landscape.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Shaun D. Wilson
- Sonia Yee
All You Need is a Wall - 10
Writers' block forces an author to reconsider her approach to a lack of inspiration.
- 2010
- 01:42
- Henry Hocking
- Marijke Peters
A Sister's Sweet Victory
My passion, hunger and desire to find my sister; strangely connected through food.
- 2013
- 02:56
- John Mackniskas
- Maureen Sanchez
Appetite for Home: Bitter-Sweet Memories of Learning to Cook & Eat in America
Longtime New Yorkers recall family cooking traditions and foods from home that have been lost to immigration.
- 2013
- 02:52
- Anne Noyes Saini
Actionwomen
Audio montage featuring the voices of women protesters and a service man remembering life in the 1980s at Greenham Common, England, a miitary base for American nuclear missiles.
- 2007
- 02:46
- Anna Norberg
- Simon Norberg
A Series of Deaths in the Octopus Level
This is an adventure that was recorded outside, inside and in-games.
- 2016
- 02:22
- Adriene Lilly
All I Need Now
A dead friend lives on, thanks to spammers and a willingness to believe in possibility.
- 2016
- 02:42
- Diane Rao Harman
- Kim Fox
All Saints Bait and Rifle
Hubert copes with depression in a culture of guns: A radio poem.
- 2016
- 02:24
- David Merleau
A Cold Freezin Night - 4
In which, to curb his kids' insatiable greed, the author's father takes it upon himself to call off one of the most anticipated holidays of the year.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Eric Winick
A Saxophone in the Woods
You don't expect to hear a saxophone walking through the woods, and the encores are unlikely to happen.
- 2016
- 02:45
- Vladimir Kryuchev
All You Need is a Wall - 11
Divorce brings about unimagined ramifications.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Katie Ball
All You Need is a Wall (or, How to Dance in the Moonlight)
The Wall teaches David how to be free--and how to dance.
- 2010
- 03:02
- Sam Greenspan
A You Need is a Wall - 9
A master clock maker explains why he's devoted his life to the clocks we hang on our walls.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Patrick Skahill
A Cold Freezin Night (Adventure)
You might imagine the desert to be a cold freezin place at night but not so.
- 2010
- 02:15
- Julien Clancy
All You Need is a Wall - 8
Mike shares the story of his start in the black market after he began dating a hippie woman named Samantha.
- 2010
- 02:59
- Zachary Baiel
All You Need is a Wall - 6
How to listen to a dance... with a wall.
- 2010
- 03:03
- Jane Cramer
All You Need is a Wall - 5
Since the 1880s Jews from all around the world have been called to Israel by the symbol of the Western Wall - but now there's a new wall where old friends meet.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Wil Crisp
A Cold Freezin Night (on which people have the lamest conversation ever)
This is what happens on the last night of the Third Coast Conference, on a cold freezin' October night in 2006, when you put six sleep-deprived radio producers in a hotel room at three o'clock in the morning with cheap pizza, bad recording equipment, and a fair bit of alcohol.
- 2010
- 03:01
- Dennis Conrow
A Cold Freezin Ni(g)ht
Spelling Bee Champion Sheena needs to track down, and bring back, the missing letter G for her new town in this radio drama for kids.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Shubha Bala
All You Need is a Microwave
Sometimes interviews take strange turns - especially when the interviewee is a nine-year-old boxer with an inventive imagination.
- 2010
- 02:45
- David Schultz
A Cold Freezin Night (On the Chain)
Connie Fredenberg tells the story one of her coldest experiences in Nikolski, Alaska.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Aviva Hirsch
A Meditation on the Femme Fatale
This piece presents two powerful women: the original femme fatale, Lady Macbeth, and presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, to meditate on society's fixation with the archetype in both fiction and real life.
- 2016
- 03:00
- Alex Gonzalez
All You Need is a Wall (I Too, Sing America)
A high school teacher imagines what might happen when poet Langston Hughes, in his poem "I, Too, Sing America," has a chance to leave the kitchen he's confined to and actually sit at the table when company comes.
- 2010
- 02:59
- Adam Kampe
All You Need is (gum on) a Wall
A monster grows while attracting tourists in downtown Seattle.
- 2010
- 02:35
- Emily Eagle
A Cold Freezin Night (Inverse Winter)
In Tucson, Arizona, summer is like winter in Canada.
- 2010
- 03:10
- Sarah Bromer