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 Hunt
Carl Miles is a professional hunter who goes after an innocent deer.
- 2016
- 02:19
- Liana Leite
Party of Special Things to Do
A bland, unremarkable, "yes" man goes along with everything and doesn't question social customs.
- 2016
- 03:00
- Aaron Leeder
- Matt Black
Too Many Miles
What if Robert Frost's poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” were re-imagined as a film?
- 2016
- 02:33
- Stephanie Rowden
- Jennifer Metsker
Spaceman Carl
Captain Sheila gets a little help taming the wild wastes of outer space.
- 2016
- 02:56
- Allison Quantz
- Bethy Squires
- Natalie Bainter
All Saints Bait and Rifle
Hubert copes with depression in a culture of guns: A radio poem.
- 2016
- 02:24
- David Merleau
2000 Messages
Robbie, a former lighthouse keeper in Guernsey, thinks he sent as many as 2000 messages out to sea over the years - with some interesting results.
- 2016
- 02:58
- Elisabeth Mahy
What Is It Like?
A look at invisibility, silhouettes, and humanity through a kaleidoscope.
- 2016
- 02:59
- Tree Mabry
First Kiss
You never know what will happen on date night...
- 2016
- 02:53
- Ben Kass
Chewed-Up Justice
A young man's gritty investigation of a crime that hit his snack drawer.
- 2016
- 02:59
- James Lindberg
Truck Stop Transformation
At the World's Largest Truck Stop in Walcott, Iowa, nothing is simply what it is.
- 2016
- 03:00
- Jake J. Smith
From a Distance
Standing where she always wanted to be, a woman on the moon looks at life from a distance.
- 2016
- 03:00
- Dorothea Trufelman
- Emma Lanier
Hey Guys, I'm Sorry
A YouTube make-up star who suffers from anxiety finds love in an unlikely place.
- 2016
- 03:00
- Sandra Bertin
Cassius
To stick with the herd, sometimes you give up everything.
- 2016
- 03:00
- Jessica Klinke
Bellhop
So we were lied to.
- 2016
- 02:19
- Garrett Tiedemann
Vent
The expression or release of [ ].
- NA
- 03:00
- Nicholas Pencak
Before You Tell Him
A woman receives unexpected news and wonders how her boyfriend will react.
- 2016
- 02:43
- Mary Helen Montgomery
- Maura Friedman
Venture into the Void
A man relives his encounter with a deadly alien.
Haunted/House
A house's ghostly imprint on one family's memory.
- 2016
- 03:00
- Rosalind Lilly
- Allison Lewis
Hard-Boiled Poet
This hard-boiled poet cracks another case wide open.
- 2016
- 03:00
- Regina Botros
Bad Year for Stegs
A young woman seeks shelter from the annual summer influx of Stegosauri.
- 2016
- 03:00
- Ari Erlbaum
- Emile Coco
Minor Fugue
A man haunted by memory slogs through his murky past.
- 2016
- 03:00
- Stan Vilensky
- Tucker Eads
Where to get a bagel
In this exploration into the bagel feud between bagel shops St-Viateur and Fairmount, I speak with customers, employees and bagel connoisseurs alike to try and discover why people choose one bagel shop over the other.
- 2015
- 02:59
- Michelle Macklem
What happened that time I don't remember?
I ask my mother about the moment that defines her life and mine that I don't remember.
- 2015
- 02:56
- Meredith Turk
Sweet Or Sour
Our passions win out in the end when we choose our future careers.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Lucas Nielsen
What can I do? Please not my daughter too!
Many women's voices become one experience of abuse.
- 2015
- 02:40
- Regina Botros