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 Sweetest Love

One new mother explains how her eating habits have changed as she develops her unborn baby's appetite.

2013
03:00
Morgan Davis

The Bitter Taste of Nicotine

My life as a smoker.

2013
02:57
Kay Collins

U-mami My Life

Having a long distance relationship is like having the best yet never satisfying three-course meal over and over again.

Bitter Yellow Pills

Lorraine explores what happens when the body gets an appetite for itself.

All Foods Lead to Home (Sweet Home)

Road Rage is transformed by Passionately Prepared Comestibles.

2013
03:13
Phyllis Janik

The Problem With Salty Water

An automated teller machine discusses awkward moments, consumer culture and why she needs it to survive.

2013
03:00
Aoife Allen

My Sweet Brother

Elaine Taylor's brother Clark has kidney disease - and it's been progressing for years.

Sweet Ratio(n)

As he pursued a pro cycling career, the formula that helped J also hurt him, too.

2013
03:00
Sarah Lu

Barry Chung's Sweet n' Sour Home

Once the child of a family living in poverty in Hong Kong, Barry Chung is now a professor at Indiana University.

2013
03:00
Lena Morris

Smells like Umami: I Can't Quite Put My Finger On It

Alex Lane subjects himself to a five alarm chili shock treatment in an effort to resurrect the olfactory system that he's never known.

Bittersweet For Left Hand Only

The ways hands make us human.

2013
02:50
Magdalen Jenne

Bitter and In

Based on excerpts from a diary of an anorexic 16-year-old.

2013
02:29
Bridget Doherty

Bitter Herbs, Sweet Freedom

At a Passover dinner, two friends celebrate their exodus from a fundamentalist Hasidic community.

2013
03:00
Frimet Goldberger

Bittersweet Courses for Horses

Man's appetite for money may mean the end of three courses for horses.

Bitter Destruction, Sweet Return

Six people working at restaurants near the Boston Marathon explosions share their experiences as they re-open their doors to customers hungry for the city to return to normal.

2013
02:59
Emily Files

Julia and the Bag of Sweet Buns

Broadcaster Marion Kane travels to Julia Child's home to join her for breakfast.

2013
03:00
Marion Kane

My Cheesecake, My Sweet Self

As a teenager, Marion Kane wanted nothing more than to fit in with her peers.

2013
03:00
Marion Kane

Sweet Julia

Marion Kane explores what awakened Julia Child's passion for food and sparked her celebrity as a chef.

2013
03:01
Marion Kane

The Bittersweetness of God's Love (1)

Chuck Piekarski, Baker at God's Love We Deliver in New York, came to his job after experiencing a personal tragedy -- and now he's giving back.

2013
02:50
Eric Winick

The Bittersweetness of God's Love (2)

Lisa Zullig and her team of dietitians at God's Love We Deliver provide nutritional assistance to a diverse clientele around the metro-New York City area.

2013
03:00
Eric Winick

The Bittersweetness of God's Love (3)

Karen Pearl, CEO of God's Love We Deliver, explains the mission of the organization, and Hassan Mazyan Jr., a client, describes its impact on his life.