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.
Everyone Forgets the Grey Horizon
A disgruntled renter writes the landlord.
- 2012
- 02:53
- Jack Gobillot
Who's Sleeping on the Green Couch Tonight?
I currently live in a studio apartment (see photo) with two of my closest girlfriends--Jenni Fenton and Nikki Jolin, and this is what our humble home sounds like.
- 2012
- 02:49
- Becky Vevea
A Coral Chain
I'll interview you, then you interview someone else.
- 2012
- 02:15
- Zak Rosen
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
Orange Pigeons at the Legion Post
For the first time, I visit the neighborhood skeet shoot at the American Legion Post across the road.
- 2012
- 02:59
- Sam Fuqua
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
Sweet Madness: A True Story
A dramatic monologue about one woman's obsession with tea.
- 2013
- 02:58
- Scott Priz
Appetite for Home: Bitter-Sweet Memories of Learning to Cook & Eat in America
Longtime New Yorkers recall family cooking traditions and foods from home that have been lost to immigration.
- 2013
- 02:52
- Anne Noyes Saini
Bitter Sweet Beginnings
Faced with their impending graduation, three Duke seniors reminisce about their freshman days and remember how a unique community was created around food.
- 2013
- 02:58
- Dillon Buckner
Umami in the Dark
Hungry for the unknown, a New York City couple experiences their first taste of umami.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Amelia Parenteau
Umami (or Oooh-Mommy); The Mother of All Appetites
We all start out with one appetite, the appetite for our mother's breastmilk.
- 2013
- 02:57
- Sukey Lewis
Between Two Buns: The Sweet Story of Burger Sobriety
For Andrew's sister, eating a hamburger is a sublime experience.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Andrew Norton
Bittersweet TV
A television studio executive is challenged to dream up a ludicrous reality TV show idea and succeeds.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Audrey Dilling
- Ben Trefny
Selling Sweet and Salty
How does light, sound and language change the perception of food?
- 2013
- 02:57
- Alex Grant
- Andy Erickson
Bitter Taste of Murder
Will the intrepid detective solve the murder most foul at Tragedy Castle?
- 2013
- 02:41
- Scott Priz
- Elisa Shoenberger
Sweet Memory Rooh Afzah
Eva Panjwani was five years old when she emigrated from Pakistan to the United States.
- 2013
- 02:41
- Madeline Miller
A Bitter Taste Memory
A mother remembers her troubling, unshakeable food addiction.
- 2013
- 02:24
- Julia Scott
I'm Salty
I'm Salty -- Put me in your mouth!
- 2013
- 02:51
- Adam Lee
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
Gold Dust
What is the most expensive thing in the world?
- 2012
- 03:00
- Laurence Yeung
A Sister's Sweet Victory
My passion, hunger and desire to find my sister; strangely connected through food.
- 2013
- 02:56
- John Mackniskas
- Maureen Sanchez
The Red, White, and Blue Bus
2012 ShortDocs Winner! The familiar faces of the red, white and blue bus, whose lives I will never know.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Luke Eldridge
A Dash of Eastern Grey
A discussion amongst neighbors one late night at the non-stop market on the corner street.
- 2012
- 02:59
- Mara Maracinescu
Out of the Blue
A college student describes the two sides of herself in her struggle with bipolar disorder.
- 2012
- 02:55
- Bianca Giaever
Red, White, and Black With Little Bit of Gold
The nature of the current relationships between neighbors in Egypt and how it changed from how it used to be in the past.
- 2012
- 02:21
- Gehad Mahmoud