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.
The Haymarket Incident
One teenager changes my perspective about a significant event in labor (and U.S.) history.
- 2008
- 02:59
- Rehman Tungekar
How I Got the Facts on China
A cold-war son becomes a new-millenium dad.
- 2008
- 03:00
- Wayne Peter Liebman
The Horrible Truth About Indie Ice Cream
An investigation into why an ice cream truck was driving down my street at 9:30 PM.
- 2007
- 02:43
- Gabe Bullard
The Highway 57 Breakdown in Three-Part Harmony
Busting out, breaking down, success, failure, positive thinking, and finding the right trailer hitch.
- 2008
- 02:58
- Dan Zellner
HATCH
A man, in orbit, going round and round...
- 2016
- 02:29
- Geoff McQueen
The Hadal Zone
Two obnoxious city boys take the Giant Squid Safari in the Sea of Japan and end up in deep trouble.
- 2016
- 03:01
- Peregrine Andrews
- Geoff Marsh
Harvey Carne Workout Method, Cassette 6
Welcome to the Harvey Carne Workout Method and Guide to Romance.
- 2008
- 02:32
- Eric Barkin
- Laura Vitale
- Tye Pemberton
House Trap
"The best-laid plans of mice and men go oft awry"- Rober Burns, To a Mouse [The mousetrap set recalls a long-forgotten incident in the producer's first residence in Toronto.]
- 2007
- 02:44
- Robert Hoare
- Steven Sauve
How to Be Heard
2007 ShortDocs Winner! Advice for the bicycle bell with aspirations, featuring voice teacher Rachel Nicholson.
- 2007
- 02:57
- Nina Perry
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love 99 Ways
Remember when we were paranoid?
- 2006
- 02:30
- Andrea Appleton
- Bruce Wallace
Hard-Boiled Poet
This hard-boiled poet cracks another case wide open.
- 2016
- 03:00
- Regina Botros
Haunted/House
A house's ghostly imprint on one family's memory.
- 2016
- 03:00
- Rosalind Lilly
- Allison Lewis
The Hunt
Carl Miles is a professional hunter who goes after an innocent deer.
- 2016
- 02:19
- Liana Leite
Hey Guys, I'm Sorry
A YouTube make-up star who suffers from anxiety finds love in an unlikely place.
- 2016
- 03:00
- Sandra Bertin
Her Sweet Laughter
John wakes up to find his whole life turned upside down by the woman of his dreams.
- NA
- 03:00
- Andy Parnell
He Gets His Girl
Barbara & Jim fell in love, got married, and began building their life together, but things didn't turn out exactly as planned.
- 2016
- 02:55
- Abbie Allensen
Henry Ford Wouldn't Have Called in Sick
Feuding co-workers in an auto parts factory conpsire to assemble the big one.
- 2006
- 02:30
- Tammy Terwelp
Hearing Things
A narrator tackles disembodied voices; admitting she seeks out the strange while actual Electronic Voice Phenomenon reverberates in a surreal background.
- 2006
- 02:31
- Carolina Wheat
Hello, I'm Johnny Cash
A radio producer deals with a case of 'broadcaster's block' by asking the question "What would Johnny do?"
- 2006
- 02:34
- Kent Hoffman
How to Cheat on Your Wife
A short, poetic instruction manual for the man who wishes to philander or have an extra-marital affair, but doesn't know where to begin.
- 2007
- 02:57
- Elizabeth Bloom Albert
Hot Lips
Hot Lips was my role model.
- 2007
- 02:58
- Yuko Kodama
Hickory Dickory Mouse
A story of nursery rhymes and life with mice.
- 2007
- 02:32
- Karen Michel
Home Sweet Homemade Bread
My mom has been making homemade bread for as long as I can remember; here is her recipe.
- 2013
- 02:33
- Caytlinn Strickland
Half Too Sweet
Trying to pull back with one hand the one you pushed away with both.
- 2013
- 03:16
- John Manini
Home Bitter/Sweet Home
Martha, a half-Chinese, half-Uruguayan Italian citizen, finds home where she least expects it.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Carly Nix