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.

Our Blacktop

A recollection of simpler times with the friends I grew up with.

2012
03:00
Noah Vandercook

White Picket Pretense

The truth behind the white picket fence: A story of neighbors at odds, egos at war, and kids at play

East Oakland (in Blue)

East Lake Neighbors wax poetic about their neighborhood mixed in with rhymes from Oakland hip-hop artist DO D.A.T.'s album "Oakland in Blue".

2012
03:00
Dash Hay

Forget Me Not Suburban St. Louis, For You Are The Site of My Sexual Liberation

St. Louis kinksters demonstrate that an history of lab-based human sexuality studies in the city can be recast as communal, playful, and liberating in the suburbs.

A Black Tie Affair

In Ireland where the tradition of waking the dead is strong in rural areas, we go behind the scenes of this centuries old tradition.

2012
03:00
softirishrain

Barmy Banff Blackout Bingo!

Welcome to Thursday night $1,000 jackpot bingo at The Royal Canadian Legion in the small Rocky Mountain town of Banff, Alberta.

2012
03:01
Alyssa Moxley

Orange You Glad I Didn't Say Lutheran?

I challenged my neighbors to a good old fashioned college chant off!

2012
02:51
Bradley Campbell

The Green Door to the Future

In a corner of Santa Monica, CA, the Village Trailer Park and its residents face an uncertain future.

2012
03:00
Will Coley

At First Blush: The Case of the Girl in the Purple Hoodie

When you ask someone an impossible question, be prepared to listen closely for your answer.

2012
03:00
Erin Davis

Chain of Missing Links - 34

A contagion of phone messages add up to an empty office.

2010
02:55
Neil Sandell

Caught Red-Handed

Someone's been smoking in my building, and I want them to stop.

2012
03:02
Chris Berube

The Green Tree Dervish

Photographer Gaylord Herron has traveled all over the world photographing different cultures, but he's also found fulfillment in his own backyard.

2012
03:00
Abby Wendle

#0000ff is Blue

No music, no human voices, computers are the future.

2012
02:06
Chris Pollard

Blue Radio Day 2012

Children voices calling to radio days.

2012
02:20
Chuse Fernandez

Mother Nature's Blues

We posed the question "What would you do if you were mother nature?" to our teenage neighbors and our piece features a compilation of the diverse answers we received.

Green Pilings

Hell and high water came, but Hurricane Katrina couldn't knock out one strong-willed Mississippi family.

2012
03:00
Emily Liner

Sepia Elsie

90 year old Elsie remembers her dancing days before she met her husband 63 years ago.

2012
03:01
Aaron Sand

Black Cat in the Room

Moving in with strangers in a new city can be difficult but building a relationship with their pets can be an experience in itself, even if that pet is named after a famous actor.

2012
03:00
Mike Williams

Midnight Blues

A night like any other in an unusual life.

Coloring In the Great White North

Three neighbors in Fargo, ND, talk about the rapid coloring in of a town in the Great White North.

Meeting in a White Stairs

Just a little of my world in encounters with neighbors on the white stairs of my building that has no elevator!

Neighborhood Crimes: When Black and White is Grey

Now living in a comparatively peaceful community in Fargo, ND, Ermina Jelovac from Bosnia exposes the almost overnight change in her neighbors during the war.