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.
Bitter Starts, Savory Endings
An exploration of identity through food experiences.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Ricardo Marinez
Bitter Destruction, Sweet Return
Six people working at restaurants near the Boston Marathon explosions share their experiences as they re-open their doors to customers hungry for the city to return to normal.
- 2013
- 02:59
- Emily Files
The Bittersweet Taste of Sports Gambling
Steven, a 20-something living in Chicago, shares his appetite for the tough world of sports gambling.
- 2013
- 02:52
- Lisa Carter
Bayou Umami
A people striving to retain their livelihood and culture.
- 2013
- 03:01
- Kay Collins
Bittersweet Apostrophe's
The story of a lifelong relationship with fast food and the consequences that come with it.
- 2013
- 02:00
- Tim Needles
BuzzyNumbingElectricSourSpice
The Sichuan Peppercorn provides a confusing, disorienting and compelling flavor to the spicy cuisine of Sichuan.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Jeff Towne
Bottled Zeitgeist: The Bitter Spirit of the Times
What if you could bottle time, shove it in a cellar for twenty years and break it out at dinner parties?
- 2013
- 02:15
- Ryan McLeod
Bland Is Sweet
Erica Bland wishes she didn't have to travel so far to eat at her favorite restaurants.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Susie An
Bittersweet; Butter Up
A story about my dad, and how life eventually altered his appetite.
- 2013
- 03:02
- Grant Buhr
Bittersweet Forevers
Some decisions are easily forgotten, well others will stick with you always.
- 2013
- 02:59
- Paige Sutherland
Bittersweet Muffins
A young veteran shares stories of appetite during his years in the military.
- 2013
- 02:51
- Wenjing Zhang
The Bitter Story of the Saddest City in the World
The forgotten story of the Great Peshtigo Fire of 1871 told in three courses: the calm before the storm, the firestorm's appetite, and the recovery.
- 2013
- 02:51
- Paul Zenke & Adam Malecek
The Bitter Taste of Reality
Matthew is like every normal teenager with a hunger for independence, but he faces a few unique challenges.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Manda Lillie
Bitter Knowledge
Elise Pepple learns a hard lesson about knowing.
- 2013
- 03:01
- Kelsey Padgett
Bing Fu is Not Blue
Bing Fu is an ESL teacher in Toronto, and she tells her story about misunderstanding a word in spite of looking it up in the dictionary.
- 2012
- 03:04
- Julia Grant
Black, White and Green
A woman makes her 'home' at a bus stop across the street from my office, this is my fantasy of what her seemingly miserable life could be the result of.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Frank Karall
Bye Bye Blue Bird
Strange visitors to an otherwise unremarkable strip mall on Cape Cod face eviction.
- 2012
- 02:53
- JP Davidson
Bee a Good Neighbor - They'll Give You Gold
The story of how I helped a neighbour move thousands of his tiny friends to a new home.
- 2012
- 02:59
- Tom Allan
Black Paris Spleen, American Mouths
Journalist Ajai Raj muses about art, fact, and truth with his metaphysical neighbors, the notorious dramatist Mike Daisey and Charles Baudelaire, the renowned poet.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Ajai Raj
Being Green Is Easy
Envy is difficult to avoid... especially between two friends.
- 2012
- 02:59
- George Drake Jr.
Blue Blood on the Boulevard
Blue Blood on the Boulevard is a short story highlighting the light and shade of a neighborhood; the sociable, family-orientated neighbor on one side and the cheating, scheming one on the other – with horrific consequences.
- 2012
- 02:59
- Michael Boland
Black Box
"Black Box" is a performance art piece based on a confidential survey asking both local and international participants, 'What would your metaphorical black box say?'
- 2012
- 03:00
- Pascalle Burton
Behind Black Bars
Neighbors discuss the safety of where they live in Pavas, San José, Costa Rica.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Kyle Greufe
Behind Pink Walls: In Search of a Sound
Neighbors on a New Orleans street corner investigate a peculiar noise that everyone hears, but no one can find it.
- 2012
- 02:58
- Laine Kaplan-Levenson
Blue Radio Day 2012
Children voices calling to radio days.
- 2012
- 02:20
- Chuse Fernandez