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.
Scared
2008 ShortDocs Winner! The bittersweet fear of watching your child grow up.
- 2008
- 03:00
- John Biewen
A Now Famous Tree
When spontaneous young sexual drives mingle in the shade of a tree, a unique and mysterious relationship is seeded.
- 2008
- 02:59
- Lynn Thompson
Trees Die for the Sins of Our Legislators
Of cheeseburgers, the Reagans, Grant Park and, of course, trees.
- 2008
- 02:44
- Kay Collins
Traveling and Trees
How trees affect me as a photographer.
- 2008
- 03:04
- Pauline Kochanski
If It Hurts, You Breathe Faster
Buffalo resident Kathy Mecca has been resisting a proposed expansion of the Peace Bridge that threatens to destroy residential homes, architecturally important buildings, and mature trees in a neighborhood that has higher than average rates of asthma.
- 2008
- 03:00
- Fereshteh Toosi
Pills
A weekend away begets new interactions, with a little help from Andrew Jackson.
- 2008
- 03:01
- Cambra Moniz-Edwards
Misplaced Memories
When you get rid of things, you never know what you are truly giving up, so keep everything.
- 2008
- 03:00
- David Green
How I Got the Facts on China
A cold-war son becomes a new-millenium dad.
- 2008
- 03:00
- Wayne Peter Liebman
Silvergirl
It's not made of Plexiglass, it's not made of fiberglass, it's not square.
- 2008
- 02:56
- Julie Caine
- Lisa Morehouse
The Big Meeting
Lorene decides to make real English marmalade for a meeting being held by striking maritime workers in her town.
- 2008
- 02:09
- Catherine Halley
- Wendy Jo Carlton
Government! Hold My Hand . . .
A satirical collision of Indiana history and standardized testing.
- 2008
- 03:00
- Zachary Baiel
The Haymarket Incident
One teenager changes my perspective about a significant event in labor (and U.S.) history.
- 2008
- 02:59
- Rehman Tungekar
Beyond the Tree Line
A lesson on abstinence recorded in a makeshift recording hut in rural Wisconsin.
- 2008
- 03:01
- Jane Cramer
That Close
Montreal's Royal Park is the backdrop to a woman's memories and the place where she is most at home.
- 2008
- 03:02
- Eva Boodman
Feeling Small but Dreaming Big
"Why we should not imagine a row of sheep at night and why is a coffee tree sometimes like a man?"
- 2008
- 02:30
- Anastasia Ivanova
Invisible Greek Rain
Every book seems to be a small universe, every title is like four "visible" percent of this universe.
- 2008
- 02:35
- Anastasia Ivanova
Birth, Birth, Rebirth
As Tom recovers from a traumatic brain injury, he and his wife welcome newborn twins into the world.
- 2008
- 03:00
- Chris Sewell
The Persistence of Ephemera
A slighty wacky look at my own ephemera collection.
- 2008
- 02:52
- Ceil Muller
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
When Condos Travel
This piece explores what happens when trailers want to stay put, but condos travel -- removing Austin residents and their beloved trees.
- 2008
- 02:48
- Sara Robberson
Kid Lit
A periscope of my grandmother's death and how babies are made.
- 2008
- 02:59
- Kristina Lund
Presenting the 2008 TCF ShortDocs: Radio Ephemera
For the 2008 TCF ShortDocs Challenge, the TCF joined forces with the Prelinger Library, a one-of-a-kind collection of books, periodicals, and more, running the gamut from the concrete and tangible to the abstract and etherized.
- 2008
- 01:22:48
Family Tree
Two families share very different reasons for planting a tree when their baby is born.
- 2008
- 03:00
- Kyle Sweet-Chavez
- Sergio Chavez
Good Luck Bestows Upon You. You Will Get What Your Heart Desires.
Grandma Phyllis reads me her fortune.
- 2008
- 02:39
- Andrea Silenzi
Too Much Shade
This piece traces the devolution of a trailer to a tree.
- 2008
- 03:01
- Annie Baxter