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.

Sixes

Eavesdropping on a traditional Canadian Christmas.

Dust Bowl Revisited

Woody Guthrie backs up an interview with a Virginia National Guard soldier at an American base in Mosul, Iraq during early 2005.

Blind Date

A G-Rated ice-breaker that would be told during a female bonding session.

Big Bang

Two lousy-sounding atoms can't get along, cause the Big Bang, and disrupt present-day international harmony.

Trouble in Vietnam

Robert McNamara, the Soviet Ambassador and President Lyndon Johnson face off in a historical remix.

Dancing

You have to ask someone to dance with you, and you have to accept when they ask you to dance.

The Big Cookoff

Each year, the football teams from the U of California and Stanford U. play in The Big Game; now for the first time, they meet in the arena of cooking in The Big Cookoff.

My God

Shalt thou dispute With Him the points of liberty? (Milton)

Sister Christy

A brother reflects on his turbulent relationship with sister after hearing a phone message.

PCAF

A Hoosier attends a show at the lofty, hipster-run Shape Shoppe recording studio, in Chicago.

Chicago's Gangster

Every July 22nd, a group of Chicagoans gather to memorialize the death of infamous and beloved bank robber John Dillinger, who spent a year evading the authorities and winning American hearts before he was shot dead in July, 1934.

Lovable Losers

Feel the passion, feel the pain of the faithful followers of Chicago's Lovable Losers.

Couple Two Tree

A loving examination of the Chicagoan language by four non-etymologists.