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.
The Bitter Taste of Reality
Matthew is like every normal teenager with a hunger for independence, but he faces a few unique challenges.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Manda Lillie
Sweet Baby June Eats the World
One night in the life of our 8 month old daughter, June.
- 2013
- 02:47
- Matt Largey
Sweet, Salty, Umami Love
A candid conversation with a former lover about my appetite for romance, relationships, and love.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Brian Cauley
Sweet Restraint
Danny can't eat wheat, barley, rye, oats, corn, potatoes...
- 2013
- 02:34
- Paula Friedrich
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
The Bittersweet Taste of Sports Gambling
Steven, a 20-something living in Chicago, shares his appetite for the tough world of sports gambling.
- 2013
- 02:52
- Lisa Carter
Truck Wild and Ramped Umami Stories
Former coal miner and mountain man extraordinaire Jay Spencer hunts for aromatic wild leeks in the forest outside Richwood, West Virginia, a lumber town and Ramp Capital of the World.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Joanna Greer
Lunch Club: A Salty Manifesto
There are only 3 Rules to Lunch Club...
- 2013
- 02:06
- Ian Davis and Mwende Hahesy
(Blue) Locker Partners
What it's like to be neighbors in a space that's nine inches wide.
- 2012
- 02:59
- Linda Lutton
Revived Ivory: A Musical Instrument Lending Library
Sometimes, the greatest musical treasures are in our own backyard.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Chris Trimmer
Some White Noise
Navid, my little neighbor.
- 2012
- 02:16
- Kim Fox
The Invisible Neighborhood - The Making and Unmaking of Home
A voice collage with the words and ideas of three of my neighbors currently living near a peninsula that is about to be developed for a new minor league basketball arena, hotel, parking garage, and possibly even a nature trail in Portland, Maine.
- 2012
- 03:01
- Caroline Losneck
72 Steps Above the Green
Sometimes it's a blessing to have noisy neighbours.
- 2012
- 02:58
- Geoff McQueen
Yellow Beaks, Black Feathers, Red Blood
It's bloody, it's loud, and it smells like manure — Madani Halal is an unlikely gathering place, yet dozens of New Yorkers flock to the Queens business daily
- 2012
- 02:39
- Mollie Bloudoff-Indelicato
Paint The Amish Horse Black and White
Much more than black or white, the story of a painted horse told around an Amish table.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Emily Newton
How to Realize that Far-off, Poverty-stricken, Deathly Ill, Brown People Are Your Neighbors, too
From visceral empathy to intellectual understanding to emotional compassion, find out how you can realize that far-off, poverty-stricken, deathly ill, brown people are your neighbors, too.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Mateo Hinojosa
The Red Cardigan
The legendary Mr. Rogers was everybody's favorite neighbor... except for maybe my friend Sarah.
- 2012
- 02:59
- Milos Balac
Duck. Duck? (Black) Goose!
A morning walk leads to neighbours never thought of in a neighbourhood much bigger than it seems.
- 2012
- 02:56
- Colm Coyne
Blue Skies, Black Fences
What does it mean to be a good neighbor? And do we actually know the people living around us?
- 2012
- 02:55
- Catie Talarski
Rudy's Gray Area
Rudy has lived on this bizarre little block since 1953, before a dozen railroad tracks and nearly as many highway lanes separated it from other residential neighborhoods.
- 2012
- 02:55
- Jennifer Brandel
Black and White and Read All Over
Cub reporter Leila is keeping a keen eye on Drake Avenue, especially one particular family.
- 2012
- 03:01
- Julie Shapiro