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 Lies in a Voicemail?
We can measure distance in miles, but the heartache it causes is indefinable.
- 2015
- 03:00
What's happening to me?
An unwelcome visitor and a meeting in the desert.
- 2015
- 03:01
- Edgar Maddicott
What's in a name?
One man decides the best way to break from the past is to change his name.
- 2015
- 03:07
- David Chong
Where would you go?
For young people who live in some of the most dangerous neighborhoods in the western hemisphere, the passage north is often just as hard as staying.
- 2015
- 02:03
- Watson Hartsoe
Where is the Extinction Capital of the World?
A wildlife biologist shares a surprising fact about Hawaii's native species.
- 2015
- 02:21
- Laurie Sumiye
What's Your Favorite Sport?
My 8 year old nephew's first undercover journalism gig.
- 2015
- 02:56
- Michael Ferstenfeld
When did you know?
Two people. Two stories. Two significant moments when everything changed: discovering sexuality and surviving sexual assault.
- 2015
- 03:02
- Nicholas Pencak
What Minnie Mouse Knows
My aunt, Debby Wurster, is making the most of her retirement.
- 2015
- 02:58
- Katie Klocksin
Why Mr. SKREEJEE?
An interview concerning a tale of trial and tribulation from the heart of Mr.SKREEJEE – a half-dog, half-gorilla, half human member of a fictitious landmine lookout patrol.
- 2015
- 02:35
- Joseph Amodei
Who is Betty?
Carol found Betty abandoned in rural Utah and gave her a new, loving home.
- 2015
- 02:25
- Benjamin Bombard
Why were you in a wheelbarrow?
A night of regrets.
- 2015
- 03:00
- Miles Martignoni
Who's Bayview's Last Saint?
Times are changing and some people lament this.
- 2015
- 02:42
- Todd Whitney
Why Did You Come Here?
A bike lesson adventure.
- 2015
- 02:47
- Sydney Beveridge
Where Did He Go: Ogichan, Grandad?
A granddaughter tells us about her grandfather's funeral.
- 2015
- 03:01
- Eloise Stevens
Where the Hell is My Paper, Ms. Gerdes?
During my first year in the classroom I misplace a student's paper but find a little bit of humility.
- 2015
- 03:00
- Abby Gerdes
What is a Bear Cat?
Bluff and Family describe the horrors of the Georgian Legend of The Bearcat.
- 2015
- 02:53
- Wolff and Zach Bowden
Who lives, who dies?
Ten years later, a survivor reflects on the fragility of life and the random ruin caused by the worst natural disaster in living memory, the Boxing Day tsunami of 2004, a day when nearly 250,000 people perished across 14 countries, one third of them, children.
- 2015
- 03:00
- Deborah Bauer
What Hairy Moments Have You Had?
Every motorcyclist you ever speak to has a story to tell.
- 2015
- 02:53
- Geoff McQueen
Who's A Good Girl?
My mother's trials as a pet owner—and as a parent—go on the record when I do a story about “puppy kindergarten.”
- 2015
- 02:58
- Kate Stein
What can I do? Please not my daughter too!
Many women's voices become one experience of abuse.
- 2015
- 02:40
- Regina Botros
Why does my Dad have ten clocks?
I find out why my Dad, David, is so fascinated with clocks and explore what makes him tick.
- 2015
- 03:00
- Michael Dale
We Thought He Had a Black Heart
Through their journey down Letaba road, Brandon, Keith, and Jameel quickly realise that appearances may not be the entire story and that there is much more to their neighbours than they think.
- 2012
- 03:01
- Clemence Petit-Perrot
What's in a hand?
Their daughter has twelve fingers, twelve toes, some fused together and some set askew – ain't nothing but a family thing.
- 2015
- 03:03
- Nellie Gilles
What does your name mean?
A mother and father reflect on what their child's name means and the incredible story of the destiny of the name.
- 2015
- 03:00
- Dan Gummel
What is Etched in Stone?
My Grandfather and Uncle recount their days as hand carving monumental sculptors in Ireland.
- 2015
- 03:00
- Ciara O'Conner