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.
Talk to Me About Love
2006 ShortDocs Winner! Two curious siblings finally get what they think they've always wanted.
- 2006
- 02:30
- David Whitcomb
- Jill Dorothy Summers
Boris the Mover
2006 ShortDocs Winner! A crush on a telemarketer results in betrayal.
- 2006
- 02:35
- Carma Jolly
The Secret Life of an Australian Mother
Domestic duet for mother and six year old.
- 2006
- 02:30
- Eurydice Aroney
- Stuart Brown
- Tom Morton
Reality Depends on Where You're Standing
Three inner-city sisters randomly discuss their reality, intercut with the perceived reality of the country's distant puppet masters.
- 2006
- 0
- Saya April Hillman
Louise
A young man runs away from the circus.
- 2006
- 02:30
- Deepthi Welaratna
Oakiedale Train
An historic train puts on the grease paint and starts serving murder mysteries.
- 2006
- 02:30
- Ceil Muller
Want Some Sushi?
An awkward office interaction at a temp gig gets even more awkward.
- 2006
- 02:36
- Jonathan Menjivar
We Can All Hear You Now
Yeah, they're handy, but cell phones sure are annoying.
- 2006
- 02:30
- Nancy Tyler
Both My Houses (Ma Maison En Deux)
You live in media you watch and listen to. I live in France, listen in Britain and dream outside.
- 2006
- 02:30
- Marjorie Van Helteren
9/8 (INC)
A direct reaction to the submission criteria without prior rehearsal.
- 2006
- 02:35
- London Concrete
Icing Adversity
The story of how the Canadian Women's hockey team overcame the odds and poor officiating to win the gold medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics.
- 2006
- 02:30
- Sherry Shute
Tapeletter From Denmark
A man misses his sister.
- 2006
- 02:31
- Soren Prehn Jensen
Good Behavior
A man, a car and freedom . . . or so he thinks.
- 2006
- 02:30
- Jack Jackson
From Glasgow to Basra
A mother misses her son.
- 2006
- 02:30
- Anna Norberg
99 Fluffys
Fluffy is a mysterious creature surrounded by bees and sweets but confronted by a hysterical mechanical animal which initially causes some angst in the surreal world of imagined adventures of Fluffy.
- 2006
- 02:30
- Alice McNamara
mishmash
Many different stories make this whole.
- 2006
- 02:30
- Regina Botros
School Mothers
While their daughters play on the school playground, two women become acquainted and share tales of sex and marriage gone awry.
- 2006
- 02:31
- Nicole Schultheis Walton
Levitating Stone
In a small village in India, a 90 KG stone levitates when the name of sufi saint Qamar Ali Dervish is chanted.
- 2006
- 02:31
- Jeanette Werkhoven
Kitchen Confidential
Thai Red Curry that has a bit of a kick.
- 2006
- 02:30
- Kelly McCarthy-Maine
Looking at Topsy
A radio story about a movie by Thomas Edison that is very hard to watch.
- 2006
- 02:30
- Brett Beyer
Distilling Stiller
A man walks into his own neuroses.
- 2006
- 02:30
- Zak Rosen
Personal Message: No Commercial Value
Sinister entertainment with a tape recorder: a found message left for a girlfriend degenerates into drunken squabbling over a reading of a Burn's poem.
- 2006
- 02:31
- Mark Vernon
A Bug in the Works
Found tape diary of a family holiday recorded for Grandma and Grandpa; a six-legged intruder spoils the fun.
- 2006
- 02:33
- Mark Vernon
Liberals (With Thomas Frank and Rush Limbaugh)
As the story continues, we finally learn that conservatives share some sort of nostalgia with liberals.
- 2006
- 02:30
- Alfred Koch
No More Bad Luck (Tess Gallagher Meets Raymond Carver)
Woman meets man.
- 2006
- 02:34
- Alfred Koch