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.
- 2013
- 02:52
- Maja Mackintosh Johansen
Bitter Yellow Pills
Lorraine explores what happens when the body gets an appetite for itself.
- 2013
- 03:01
- Lorraine Boissoneault
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.
- 2013
- 03:14
- Elaine Taylor and Clint Holgate
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.
- 2013
- 02:53
- Bec Feldhaus & Shelly Baskin
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.
- 2013
- 03:01
- Eurydice Aroney
- Tom Morton
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.
- 2013
- 02:59
- Eric Winick
The Sour Taste of Potlucks
My mom and I don't agree on much, but we can agree on one thing - potlucks are the pits.
- 2013
- 02:57
- Lauren Ober
Salt in the Air
The prairie is hard to find and harder to lose.
- 2013
- 03:01
- Megan Clark
Ethiopian Coffee - The Sweet Ritual of Togetherness
Guenet Sebsibe shows how she keeps an important Ethiopian cultural tradition alive.
- 2013
- 02:21
- Anne Huang
- Audrey Dilling
Dear Sweet Mike Levey
An ode to the late great infomercial host and to the realization that we all hunger for something.
- 2013
- 02:59
- Heather Kitching