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.
Chain of Missing Links - 11
In which, following a rock concert, the author is accidentally left by friends at an outdoor amphitheater ninety minutes from his home town.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Eric Winick
A Cold Freezin Night - 4
In which, to curb his kids' insatiable greed, the author's father takes it upon himself to call off one of the most anticipated holidays of the year.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Eric Winick
All You Need is a Wall (in Plato's Cave)
A riff on Plato's Allegory of the Cave, in which humans are presented as prisoners who spend their entire lives staring at a cave wall, mistaking the shadows they see there for the totality of existence.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Sarah Boothroyd
All You Need is a Wall - 2
Nathan James tells the story of digging his first underground tunnel.
- 2010
- 03:04
- Chris Bolton
A Cold Freezin Night - 5
Recitation of the mystical English poem, "I Saw the Sun at Midnight, Rising Red", 1917 by Joesph Mary Plunkett and music by the Psalters.
- 2010
- 01:35
- Glenn Simonsen
I Didn't Know That (Lost on Lost)
Justin McLachlan talked with some Lost super fans waiting to watch the series finale about all the things he didn't know he didn't know about the show.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Justin McLachlan
I Didn't Know That - 3
A 14 year old Somali boy describes a method of killing a lion by hand.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Glenn Simonsen
Chain of Missing Links - 13
This is a story about human love, fear, loneliness and self perception in the neverending journey of life in the modern world.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Ioana Baldea
I Didn't Know That (Eyeborgs Really Exist)
A Canadian filmmaker who lost his eye replaces his prosthetic with a bionic camera-eye so he can shoot documentary video from his pupil.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Britt Wray
I Didn't Know That (road trip)
A journey to find a specific house by a lake. Recorded in the Lake Simcoe area of Ontario, Canada.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Zoe Irvine
A Cold Freezin Night - 6
Every year smokejumpers, or wildland firefighters who parachute into remote areas to fight forest fires, secure their jobs in part by running for it.
- 2010
- 02:59
- Nan Floyd
All You Need is a Wall - 3
In which the author, at a low point, embarks on a relationship with his housemate -- only to learn that she is bipolar and prone to some odd behavior.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Eric Winick
Chain of Missing Links - 10
The pastor in this fictional drama is the main character in a half-completed short story.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Andrew Hood
I Didn't Know That - 2
Tamzen Moulding didn't know what was really happening behind the illusionary side of showbiz.
- 2010
- 03:06
- Sofia Saldanha
I Didn't Know That (An Artist's Story)
A young husband and father leaves behind the (relative) security of his corporate cubicle to pursue life as a full-time artist.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Diane Bock
Chain of Missing Links - 4
A three hour span of time, boys, and awkward breaks in life.
- 2010
- 02:59
- Anne Katherine Lesser
Chain of Missing Links - 1
Randy Morton of Pacific Piano Supply in Chatsworth, California talks as he prepares to re-string the Myrow family Steinway.
- 2010
- 02:46
- Rachael Myrow
All You Need is a ____.
Two opposing groups of immigration protestors in Arizona attempt to define the word "wall" without referring to Mexico.
- 2010
- 01:59
- Aengus Anderson
- James Ford Howell
A Cold Freezin Night - 1
A stranger wanders into a rural village, seeking warmth and shelter from a sharp January night. Unfortunately his reception at the local watering hole is just as icy as the wind he's trying to escape.
- 2010
- 01:04
- Geoff Storm
I Didn't Know That (about windows)
Megan Williams' friend Lorella talks about the social experiment she conducts on a bus in Milan, Italy each August.
- 2010
- 02:34
- Megan Williams
Chain of Missing Links - 2
Eve Abrams was inspired by the heartfelt reactions of her first grade students to the tragedy currently unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico and in their coastal communities.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Eve Abrams
Chain of Missing Links - 3
Mary Amoroso, who just had her ninety-fifth birthday, leaves a confused message on her boyfriend's answering machine.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Molly Bennett
Chain of Missing Links - 5
The non-fiction scattered story of Devin Hildebrand's family Christmas '95, when his sister received a real kitten, Jodi, just like she wanted, among other things.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Devin Hildebrand
Chain of Missing Links - 9
Sharla Cooper of www.wholefoodies.org explains how whole food is greater than the sum of its refined parts.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Masaki Araya
A Cold Freezin Night - 2
Was it just a dream? I can't remember now.
- 2010
- 03:01
- Katie Mingle