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.
Making a Bitter Beast into a Sweet Meat
How do you take an animal once on the endangered species list, and turn it into dinner?
- 2013
- 03:00
- Tina Antolini
Sour Stomach: Where's the Bathroom?
IBS is gross, funny and crappy (pun intended) to live with and it tries to dictate my life.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Kristofor Husted
Sweet Ratio(n)
As he pursued a pro cycling career, the formula that helped J also hurt him, too.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Sarah Lu
Barry Chung's Sweet n' Sour Home
Once the child of a family living in poverty in Hong Kong, Barry Chung is now a professor at Indiana University.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Lena Morris
Smells like Umami: I Can't Quite Put My Finger On It
Alex Lane subjects himself to a five alarm chili shock treatment in an effort to resurrect the olfactory system that he's never known.
- 2013
- 02:53
- Bec Feldhaus & Shelly Baskin
Umami Grease
In three courses, we discover the relationship between man and grease: the history, the culture and the conflict.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Jackson Stanton
Fear Tastes Like Salt Feels
A tale, fearsome and salty, of restricting restrictions told from the safe side of a youth, that is, beyond it.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Julia Murphy
A Bittersweet Experiment
Two producers explore the hungers generated from living on an island in Alaska and some attempts at satisfying them.
- 2013
- 02:56
- Elise Pepple and Ellen Frankenstein
The Bitter-Sweet Story of a Migrant Worker
Somchai Sriweawnetr's quick thinking and courage helped to save 5 Americans in 1979 Iran.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Catherine Louli
Enrich the Sweetness
Mental and physical acts of eating, how are you satisfied?
- 2013
- 02:17
- Carly Kenneally
Sweet Chili Baby
A talk with Amos and Ruth in their kitchen as they share their excitement for food and speculate on how it will be passed on to the next generation.
- 2013
- 02:50
- Dea Cisar
The Sweet Tweet Suite
When your appetite is for nature and for unusual sounds then you have to go on the odd adventure...
- 2013
- 02:59
- Geoff McQueen
Inside The Leaf It's Bittersweet
The Dolemouse: a nutty study on optimal foraging theory.
- 2013
- 03:03
- Jane Cramer
This Sweetness is Metaphysical
This is a story about adventuring, eating vegan food and smoking weed with your partner.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Scott Fitzpatrick
The Problem With Salty Water
An automated teller machine discusses awkward moments, consumer culture and why she needs it to survive.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Aoife Allen
The Bitter Loss of Flavour
The sunny bike ride that taught one young woman the painful difference between taste and flavour.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Charlotte McDonald
The Sour Taste of Appetite
After listening to friends give their ideas on the word 'appetite,' I realized just how much anorexia has changed my view.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Emma French
The Soul is Bittersweet
The Hare Krishna Temple offers a free meal, in the hopes that those who visit will leave with a satisfied appetite; physically, mentally, and spiritually.
- 2013
- 02:55
- Erin Connolly
Prunes, Eggs, and Sweet Marshmallows: Eating with My Grandmas
Instructions on how to recreate my grandmothers' favorite meals.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Jennie Lennick
The Sweet and Kind Benton House Pantry
A visit to the weekly Friday Food Pantry at Benton House.
- 2013
- 03:14
- Alyssa Moxley
Summersault featuring Lumberjockey
Scott Barber aka Lumberjockey discovered at 15 that he needs to pay close attention to everything that goes into his body.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Julia Grant
- Scott Barber
An Injection of Sweetness
When Joanne decided to spice up her diet, she got a little more than she bargained for.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Jessica Miller
Salty Import
Our curiosity begs the question, "How did I get here?" and our eating habits answer it.
- 2013
- 02:50
- Caryn Berman
Sweet Stalking the Wild Rhubarb
After generous winter rains the Sonoran Desert offers up wild rhubarb, and ethnobotanist Martha Ames Burgess knows where to look for it and how to turn it into a juicy desert dessert.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Laura Markowitz
Bittersweet Grief in 3 Courses
Writer Zarina Zabrisky talks about her family's history and how it informed her relationship with food.
- 2013
- 02:44
- Sayre Quevedo