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.
What if we gave heroes hot chocolate?
Eight-year-old Lydia was a customer in a jewelry store when robbers stormed the counter.
- 2015
- 02:19
- Barbara Dundon
Who Do I Come From
My grandfather, John Frank Noyes, is the only person who remembers our family's homestead in Wyoming; he died this winter.
- 2015
- 02:34
- Anne Noyes Saini
What Kind of Relationship Did You Have With Your Dad?
A mother shares the unusual way she came to learn her father loved her.
- 2015
- 03:00
- Alexis Stember
What Makes a Good Wife?
According to Tía Nora, things have changed since the 1950s.
- 2015
- 02:58
- Erin Leyson
Why did leaving the armed forces nearly kill you?
Leaving the armed forces had serious consequences for Paul Boucher's health.
- 2015
- 03:01
- Andy Parnell
Where's The Amstel Heavy?
In a domestic sea of Amstel Light, Where's the Amstel Heavy?
- 2015
- 02:59
- Laine Kaplan-Levenson
What's up with the house next door?
A tale of growing up in Uptown.
- 2015
- 03:00
- Quin J. McCarthy
Who Would End It?
A brother & sister discuss euthanasia.
- 2015
- 02:36
- E. Nakano
What Do They Want?
A Chicago nanny stumbles upon an existential dilemma while buying Christmas gifts for her charges.
- 2015
- 02:30
- Jake J. Smith
When I Couldn't Sleep
A prisoner of an antebellum asylum express his horror in a letter to his sister.
- 2015
- 02:42
- Cynthia Morrison
Why You Should Interview Your Girlfriend
Prudence finds her Beau cheating on her.
- 2015
- 02:54
- Cynthia Morrison
What Should I Get?
Megan Williams talks to a Jewish vendor who sells Catholic objects in Rome.
- 2015
- 03:00
- Megan Williams
What's The Worst Pain You've Ever Experienced?
Irukandji; an invisible, thumbnail sized jellyfish whose sting causes unimaginable pain.
- 2015
- 03:00
- Joel Werner
What can I do now that they've chopped me up little by little?
Carlos Cardenas finds hope after losing a leg to diabetes.
- 2015
- 03:00
- Francesco De Salvatore
Where did they ghost?
The story of “ghost” through interviews, films, music and instructional videos.
- 2015
- 02:55
- Adriene Lilly
What happens when a statistic becomes your life?
Over 44 million people live with dementia worldwide, but it is not until it affects you directly that you realise the impact the disease can have on your life.
- 2015
- 02:29
- Cristina Parry
What's in a car?
Lourdes Mello's late husband bought her a Mustang convertible in 1989; the car is badly broken now, but she holds on to it for the memories.
- 2015
- 03:00
- Lily Doron
When in doubt?
How to survive your first parachute jump.
- 2015
- 02:39
- Elizabeth Friend
What made him do something different?
A teacher on the first day of the job encounters an 8th grader with a swastika tattoo.
- 2015
- 03:00
- Jessica Cheung
Well Behaved Women (RUS)
All women buy things that they don't really need. Why are they doing this?
- 2007
- 02:41
- Alexander Soleev
What do you look forward to, Aai?
The producer's grandma reflects on growing old in a country that's not her home.
- 2015
- 02:59
- Neena Pathak
Who doesn't like an ear hole?
A brief message from an eligible man.
- 2018
- 02:29
- John Wilson
Why Do I Know so Much and Nothing at All?
The sounds of my cellphone - talking to me.
- 2015
- 03:01
- Walter Petrichyn
When Will We Lose It?
Between sea level rise and a disappearing coastline it feels inevitable that life as we know it in New Orleans is on a limited run, but how much time do we have?
- 2015
- 03:00
- Eve Abrams
When We March Into The Arctic of the Unknown
One in a million... Maria's chronicle of shameless acceptance.
- 2015
- 03:04
- Vivianne Cardenas