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.
Why would anyone, in his right mind, jump into Lake Michigan in the middle of a Chicago Winter?
The polar plunge: a story of cold water and warm hearts.
- 2015
- 02:58
- Fallon Schlossman
What is Alpha-1?
What is the personal experience of having Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency (Alpha-1)?
- 2015
- 02:59
- Garrett Tiedemann
When was the Freest You Ever Felt in Your Life?
I asked many people when was the freest they'd ever felt in their lives. This is one person's story.
- 2015
- 02:56
- Meg Ritter
When we lose our breath
I placed a large resonating tube in a public library for a full day and invited people to stick their heads in, hold their breath, and then answer the question: “What makes you breathless?”
- 2015
- 02:55
- Justin Zullo
What is Indiana?
In three scenes and a whole life spent in and out of the state, I attempt to answer the question, "What is Indiana?"
- 2015
- 02:59
- Evelyn Bottando
What Do You Hear When A Plane Engine Dies in the Air?
Robin Holleran's life was forever changed the day she survived a plane crash.
- 2015
- 03:00
- Jonathan Hirsch
When The Blind Meet
A man struggles through a blind date at a resturant.
- 2015
- 03:00
- Steve Krysak
When Bad Jobs Happen to Good People: "After Working, Crap & Go"
The life and hard times of a truck-stop attendant in the spirit of a Studs Terkel encounter.
- 2015
- 02:10
- Ned Simonson
What could be bad about this?
2015 ShortDocs Winner! What if you could learn to stop listening to other people?
- 2015
- 02:59
- John-Michael Forman
Who Took Mom to the Prom?
2015 ShortDocs Winner! A story of girls who say 'yes' that is 100% true.
- 2015
- 02:30
- Emer Horgan
Why, willie wagtail, why?
House arrest by willie wagtail.
- 2015
- 03:00
- Jessica Minshall
What does spring sound like on your side?
A Trans-Canada Conversation.
- 2015
- 01:58
- Braeden Doane and Chelsea Jeffrey
What Happens to Orphan Photos?
Photographs are some of our most treasured objects, leagues of people are dedicated to their preservation, but what happens to the pictures that've lost their way?
- 2015
- 03:00
- Qathi Hart
What Do Role Models Have To Tell Us Today About Living Well?
How a simple timeless truth can create intimacy, transform relationships and improve our lives forever.
- 2015
- 03:00
- Tony DiLeonardi
Why Eat Ice Cream For Dinner?
Sometimes, getting lost and having ice cream for dinner is the best thing that can happen.
- 2015
- 03:00
- Katherine Kibler
Who would do that?
A man, a bird, and a hose.
- 2015
- 02:54
- Vanessa Lowe
Where did we come from?
My mother tells me our immigration story.
- 2015
- 02:48
- Siva Vijenthira
When will the nervousness float away?
Trying to find comfort in a basement apartment.
- 2015
- 02:42
- Zak Rosen
- Rebecca Prosser
Why Wasn't I Named Smith?
A family talks about what it was like to have the same name as the most hated person in America.
- 2015
- 03:00
- Debra Oswald
Where's My ACL?
A young man loses his ACL but gains it back and much more.
- 2015
- 03:00
- James Min
Where did the ice come from?
Three generations of women discuss ice and death in the Amana Colonies.
- 2015
- 02:59
- Ellie Gordon-Moershel
What do you think of when you think of stars?
A love story that begins over the phone and under the stars.
- 2015
- 03:00
- Jessi LeMay
Why they scream
By the end of the century half of the world's languages will no longer be spoken, this is one scream of resistance.
- 2015
- 03:05
- Tika Simone
What happened to Greg? And what happens to him next?
Sometimes the way we respond to a suicide says more about us than the person who died.
- 2015
- 02:57
- Emily Guerin
What?? No way...
The First in a series of Short Radio Documentaries, this episode focuses on: "Order 9066."
- 2015
- 02:59
- Tim Nakayama