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.
COMPETITIVE EATING = UMI? OR UMAMI
Legend has it that on July 4, 1916, four immigrants had a hot dog eating contest at Coney Island to determine the most patriotic; Crazy Legs Conti is the ultimate American.
- 2013
- 04:01
- Jeng-Tyng (Jen) Hong
A Bitter Life
Helping to create a conscience, informing people of the world's biggest injustice, and promoting social responsibility.
- 2013
- 02:36
- Mohammed Nagi
Umami English
How to prepare the best English class in Paris.
- 2013
- 03:34
- Jane Weston's English class
Don't Forget to Feed Your Soul... Food (A Salty Reminder)
My mom, some crystals and an unexpected appetite.
- 2013
- 00
- Sally Herships
Umami and Daddy too!
Olga likes borscht. Ryan Poli at work, and Leah Cowen asks the musical question "Can You Feed My Appetite?"
- 2013
- 02:55
- Frank Karall
2013 ShortDocs Winners
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Appetite for a Sweet Life
Aya Mostafa explores the right appetite to maintain a healthy life.
- 2013
- 0
- Aya Mostafa
A Bitter Truth
One man's addiction to his music.
- 2013
- 02:45
I Still Prefer the Sweet
Educational & funny experiences with food.
- 2013
- 02:34
- Salma El Kerdany
Ooo, Mommy
My name's Julie, and I'm a licorice addict.
- 2013
- 02:28
- Julie Caine
Very Sweet with Edge of Tartness
Rachel Steinhardt encounters an unexpected memento of her grandmother's life.
- 2013
- 03:01
- Will Coley
Sweet Restraint
Danny can't eat wheat, barley, rye, oats, corn, potatoes...
- 2013
- 02:34
- Paula Friedrich
Bottled Zeitgeist: The Bitter Spirit of the Times
What if you could bottle time, shove it in a cellar for twenty years and break it out at dinner parties?
- 2013
- 02:15
- Ryan McLeod
Bitter Knowledge
Elise Pepple learns a hard lesson about knowing.
- 2013
- 03:01
- Kelsey Padgett
Salt, Interrupted
A couple remembers an unexpected illness.
- 2013
- 03:01
- Katie Klocksin
The Sweet Life On Tour (or Ben Eats A Lobster Roll)
My friend Ben eats his first lobster roll while we're on tour in Portland, Maine.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Alex Lewis
- Alex Lewis
Umami Sunshine
An exploration of the role of appetite in elderly health as well as the scientific basis of umami (also known as L-glutamate or glutamic acid), with ukelele accompaniment.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Patricia McMillen
The Bitter Story of the Saddest City in the World
The forgotten story of the Great Peshtigo Fire of 1871 told in three courses: the calm before the storm, the firestorm's appetite, and the recovery.
- 2013
- 02:51
- Paul Zenke & Adam Malecek
Half Too Sweet
Trying to pull back with one hand the one you pushed away with both.
- 2013
- 03:16
- John Manini
Life Is Sweet - as Long as It's Smeared with Skippy Peanut Butter
What happens when the only foods you'll eat are French fries, peanut butter, and pizza - but you're a grown-up? - an exploration of adult extreme picky eating.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Cody Anderson
- Molly Jackel
- Selena Polston
BuzzyNumbingElectricSourSpice
The Sichuan Peppercorn provides a confusing, disorienting and compelling flavor to the spicy cuisine of Sichuan.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Jeff Towne
Sweet Nothings
A lady lacking a sweet tooth does her bit for those with malnutrition, by losing - and finding - her appetite.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Kirsty McQuire
Love is Sweet Among Non-Human Animals
Love is delicious; love is disgusting.
- 2013
- 02:56
- Liz Wason
The Sweet Bitter End
Raima Fernald's two sons were born with a debilitating neurological disease - one found a way out.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Peter Frick-Wright
Bland Is Sweet
Erica Bland wishes she didn't have to travel so far to eat at her favorite restaurants.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Susie An