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.
Courtney and Catherine
Two girls don't see eye to eye on what defines a bright future.
- 2006
- 02:42
- Katie Day Good
Sweetheart, I Hate You
Two e-lovers meet in the flesh and the thrill is gone.
- 2006
- 02:30
- Antonio Almeida
My God
Shalt thou dispute With Him the points of liberty? (Milton)
- 2006
- 02:49
- Tim Forrest
The Cat and the Boyfriend (INC)
Through diary entries, the relationship between a cat and the new, live-in boyfriend is revealed.
- 2006
- 03:02
- Mark A. Tolstedt
The Priscilla Tapes: An Introduction (INC)
A story of a collection of taped letters.
- 2006
- 02:30
- Zoe Irvine
Sometimes . . . (INC)
When I try from Zen sickness to fly . . .
- 2006
- 02:31
- Grace Yoon
Sold 'Em Way Up High at 1200 (INC)
Melds the incredible auctioneering skills of Dan Skeels, the 2004 World Livestock Auctioneering Champion, with the electronic sounds of Nick Freilich, aka Epicte the Elemental.
- 2006
- 02:21
- Cyrus Farivar
To Begin With
A few stories told at once.
- 2006
- 02:30
- Emily Hilliard
I'd Like to Straighten You Out
A musician, a living legend, attracts pilgrims, then gives them trouble.
- 2006
- 02:30
- Joseph Decosimo
Presenting the 2006 TCF ShortDocs: 99 Ways to Tell a Radio Story
For the 2006 ShortDocs Challenge, the Third Coast was inspired by and collaborated with cartoonist and illustrator Matt Madden.
Maria the Korean Bride
Maria wants to be married in every state.
- 2006
- 02:30
- Andy, Tourist in the City
Sister Christy
A brother reflects on his turbulent relationship with sister after hearing a phone message.
- 2006
- 02:30
- Jody Melto
Accident Avalanche
It's an Eastern Romance action-surrealist film, but He and She, they didn't get along so well.
- 2006
- 02:30
- Liz Bustamante
The Big Cookoff
Each year, the football teams from the U of California and Stanford U. play in The Big Game; now for the first time, they meet in the arena of cooking in The Big Cookoff.
- 2006
- 02:31
- Nico Savidge
Time for Change
Boston Common + drum + activist + drunken panhandler = police intervention.
- 2006
- 02:31
- Justin Grotelueschen
The Indian Ocean
How did the mammoths die? Where did the Indian Ocean come from?
- 2006
- 02:30
- Delaney Hall
- Nick Hunt
- Rachel Pearson
Charlie: Boston's Freedom Fighter
A call for the folk hero of a 1948 protest song to rise up against the misuse of his name, which is being slathered across the very thing he fought against.
- 2006
- 02:30
- Kristopher Carter
Trouble in Vietnam
Robert McNamara, the Soviet Ambassador and President Lyndon Johnson face off in a historical remix.
- 2006
- 02:32
- Theo Lipfert
Big Bang
Two lousy-sounding atoms can't get along, cause the Big Bang, and disrupt present-day international harmony.
- 2006
- 02:30
- David Polk
Blind Date
A G-Rated ice-breaker that would be told during a female bonding session.
- 2006
- 02:31
- Kay Collins
Dust Bowl Revisited
Woody Guthrie backs up an interview with a Virginia National Guard soldier at an American base in Mosul, Iraq during early 2005.
- 2006
- 02:28
- Steve Walsh
Disrupted
I'm just trying to get some information.
- 2006
- 02:30
- Seth Lind
Saul and Joshua
They play well together, but . . .
- 2006
- 02:30
- Seth Lind
Best Friends
A conversation on the incapacity to communicate.
- 2006
- 01:27
- Keith Brand
The Woo-Zits and Was-Zits
What wacky ways we work with words!
- 2006
- 02:31
- Sara Truesdale