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.
Control the Blue
I visited my old elementary school and went to an art class full of second graders .
- 2012
- 02:58
- Stephen Key
Hearing Red
We explore the subtle effects of noise pollution on our daily lives.
- 2012
- 02:39
- Andy Cox
The Purple and the White: What's up with Talley's Alley?
The first in an occasional audio documentary series exploring the history, people, places and traditions of North Shore Country Day School (NSCDS) in Winnetka, IL.
- 2012
- 02:59
- David Green
The Commons Green
A homeless man is a modern day town crier in downtown Boston.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Katharine Broida
Rear Window, Black & White, 1954
Hitchcock's Rear Window revisited through my own rear window.
- 2012
- 02:52
- Caterina Clerici
Gold Dust
What is the most expensive thing in the world?
- 2012
- 03:00
- Laurence Yeung
Look Toward the Blue
As a new resident of one of the oldest neighborhoods in Portland, Maine, I set out one day armed with a recorder and mic in hopes of meeting some of my new neighbors.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Laura Candler
Shadows of Grey in the Corner of Your Eye: Your Universe is Not My Universe
Cities are crowded, busy places, so crowded and so busy that parallel universes can occupy the same spaces, and when they overlap, it can be problematic, or even catastrophic.
- 2012
- 03:01
- Kimberly Haas
Whitey's Rules
Residents of a quiet Santa Monica apartment building remember their neighbor, Charlie -- also known as notorious Boston crime boss James "Whitey" Bulger -- in this darkly comic piece.
- 2012
- 02:54
- Eric Drachman
- Gideon Brower
Doggie House Blues
There are two types of neighbors: those with dogs and those without dogs.
- 2012
- 02:59
- Zena Kells
On the Orange Dusty Streets
Meet Juma, a Rwandan street boy, whose dream is to become a singer, and Bosco who spends his days fixing broken plastic buckets, casserole pots, shoes, radios and umbrellas to earn a living for his family.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Helene Thomas
Orangey Brown Meets Yellow and Black
Two neighbors discuss the thing that inspires fear, sweetens our lives, and keeps food on the table.
- 2012
- 02:00
- Emily Eagle
She?s Hearing Mauve
An off-kilter treasure hunt for ideas.
- 2012
- 02:49
- Kate Norquay
- Shaun D. Wilson
Seeing Red
What happens when a skylight lets more than light into your apartment?
- 2012
- 03:03
- Tori Marlan
Being Green Is Easy
Envy is difficult to avoid... especially between two friends.
- 2012
- 02:59
- George Drake Jr.
(Gold)en Age of the Newspaper Business
Experience the almost-lost memories of a team of journalists from St. Catharines, Ontario.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Charles Ketchabaw
- Lisa Marie DiLiberto
Greens at Gloria's
Gloria's Kitchen feeds the neighborhood.
- 2012
- 02:43
- Annie Gilbertson
- Lauren Cioffi
True Blue Light
A man with a microphone meets a small town neighbor on a mission.
- 2012
- 03:01
- Dave Engen
- Robert Jersak
Strawberry Margaritas
Your neighborhood Mexican restaurant may have a deeper history than you know.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Kerry Klein
Bing Fu is Not Blue
Bing Fu is an ESL teacher in Toronto, and she tells her story about misunderstanding a word in spite of looking it up in the dictionary.
- 2012
- 03:04
- Julia Grant
...And the Dumpster is Blue
Just a typical day in "The Southgate."
- 2012
- 03:00
- Michael Abramczyk
Duke's Street Corner Blues
Duke, one of the many artists in the historic African American arts district of the Fillmore neighborhood, discusses his surprising first step in becoming an artist.
- 2012
- 02:42
- Kristina Loring
A Golden Summer
Benct and Rosie are German backpackers who became my neighbours for a weekend when they parked their camper van, "Bussy", outside my house. This is the story of their travels so far...
- 2012
- 02:50
- James Vyver
True Blue - The Story of Anzac Day
Here's the untold story of the origins of Anzac Day.
- 2012
- 03:01
- David Stephenson
Coach Class Up in the Wild Blue Yonder
13D meets her neighbors 13C and 13E.
- 2012
- 02:58
- Melissa Gerr