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 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
Taste of Bitter Love
Coffee roaster Hans-Erik discusses taste associations and developing a taste vocabulary.
- 2013
- 02:35
- Michael James Lewis
Bittersweet
A golfer's drive and hunger to be great.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Zac Strohfus
The Sweet Taste of Couscous
My grandparents had very little in common except for their appetite for couscous.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Marie Telling
Sweet Empty Calories: HEART DISEASE
How an appetite for the wrong foods can kill you, and the role it plays in heart disease (the number one killer of women).
- 2013
- 03:00
- Linda Darlene (Behl) Brennaman
- Ross Stinemetz
My Mom, the Sweet Tomato
The one thing I still need from my mom.
- 2013
- 02:52
- Morgan Dusatko
Anatomy of a Sweet
An expert baker attempts to conquer her greatest fear: funfetti.
- 2013
- 02:56
- Hannah Krakauer
Sweet as Pie
A true story: when we bought the crack house, we got more than we'd bargained for.
- 2013
- 02:58
- Elizabeth Friend
Bitter Sweet
Recorded in one take, with only minor effects added.
- 2013
- 02:57
- Youssef Azmy
Sweet Dreaming Orchid
You will see things you never even dreamed were there - or how an appetite for orchids is edifying.
- 2013
- 03:01
- Rosy Rickett
The Sweet and Sour Craving for Risk
Risk presented in three different courses: 1) Craving 2) We Can't Help It 3) Living Life to the Fullest.
- 2013
- 03:02
- Evie Salomon
Mornings Are Not Sweet, Just Scrambled
Wilson Sayre shares her mornings.
- 2013
- 02:20
- Wilson Sayre
Sweet Cheesecake Heartbreak: Three Dates
Spicy kielbasa, sweet cheesecake, and a glass of merlot: the foodstuffs of great and horrible dates.
- 2013
- 02:45
- Catie Talarski
The Unexpected Sweetness
Flowed mellow audio file that is down tempo but upbeat at the same time.
- 2013
- 03:35
- Bernard Capistrano
Minnesota Sweets
Sweet corn - a great way to get fat and sleepy - is the subject of this true tale of animal, man and machine.
- 2013
- 02:48
- Becky Moonitz
In Search of Bitter Greens
With the guidance of an outdoor educator, the producers learn to forage for their supper.
- 2013
- 02:47
- Bridget Bancroft
- Erica Stone
Journey to Umami
Traveling the on road to Umami, she wondered who or what she would meet along the way.
- 2013
- 02:32
- Dixie Treichel
The Sour Side of Volunteering
Two insiders talk about the underbelly of a documentary film festival, the world of volunteer victuals.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Jagmeet Mac
She's Not Bitter
Haley's long list of food allergies have changed her life, but not her positive attitude.
- 2013
- 02:57
- Michela Tindera
Old Captain Salt
Dreaming of Old Captain Salt and his sushi boat.
- 2013
- 02:17
- Dixie Treichel
Sweeter Memories
The story of a young man who has an appetite for adventure and tries to leave home as fast as he can.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Kurt Santana
A Bagel's Bitter End
I almost burned down Dunkin' Donuts trying to cook a bagel for my sister.
- 2013
- 03:01
- Amy Kraft
Sweet and Sour Tiffany: Chinese Naming Menu
If you could pick your own name what would you choose? Three Chinese students living in Australia explain their name choices.
- 2013
- 03:00
Sweet Muscles
70% of Tamara's life is about her diet, with one aim: to become the best female bodybuilder in the country.
- 2013
- 02:57
- Julie Thing