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.

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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.

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?'