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.
Salt, Interrupted
A couple remembers an unexpected illness.
- 2013
- 03:01
- Katie Klocksin
The Sweet Life On Tour (or Ben Eats A Lobster Roll)
My friend Ben eats his first lobster roll while we're on tour in Portland, Maine.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Alex Lewis
- Alex Lewis
Umami Sunshine
An exploration of the role of appetite in elderly health as well as the scientific basis of umami (also known as L-glutamate or glutamic acid), with ukelele accompaniment.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Patricia McMillen
The Bitter Story of the Saddest City in the World
The forgotten story of the Great Peshtigo Fire of 1871 told in three courses: the calm before the storm, the firestorm's appetite, and the recovery.
- 2013
- 02:51
- Paul Zenke & Adam Malecek
Half Too Sweet
Trying to pull back with one hand the one you pushed away with both.
- 2013
- 03:16
- John Manini
Life Is Sweet - as Long as It's Smeared with Skippy Peanut Butter
What happens when the only foods you'll eat are French fries, peanut butter, and pizza - but you're a grown-up? - an exploration of adult extreme picky eating.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Cody Anderson
- Molly Jackel
- Selena Polston
The Sweet Taste of Imagination
You can eat a sumptuous three-course meal when you're sick if you use a little bit of imagination.
- 2013
- 02:36
- Nacha Raman
Bayou Umami
A people striving to retain their livelihood and culture.
- 2013
- 03:01
- Kay Collins
My Bitter Self-Discovery
A personal narrative attempting to better understand my relationship with food.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Henry Cohn-Geltner
Umami in the Dark
Hungry for the unknown, a New York City couple experiences their first taste of umami.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Amelia Parenteau
Duck. Duck? (Black) Goose!
A morning walk leads to neighbours never thought of in a neighbourhood much bigger than it seems.
- 2012
- 02:56
- Colm Coyne
Blue Skies, Black Fences
What does it mean to be a good neighbor? And do we actually know the people living around us?
- 2012
- 02:55
- Catie Talarski
Rudy's Gray Area
Rudy has lived on this bizarre little block since 1953, before a dozen railroad tracks and nearly as many highway lanes separated it from other residential neighborhoods.
- 2012
- 02:55
- Jennifer Brandel
Black and White and Read All Over
Cub reporter Leila is keeping a keen eye on Drake Avenue, especially one particular family.
- 2012
- 03:01
- Julie Shapiro
Everyone Forgets the Grey Horizon
A disgruntled renter writes the landlord.
- 2012
- 02:53
- Jack Gobillot
Who's Sleeping on the Green Couch Tonight?
I currently live in a studio apartment (see photo) with two of my closest girlfriends--Jenni Fenton and Nikki Jolin, and this is what our humble home sounds like.
- 2012
- 02:49
- Becky Vevea
(Blue) Locker Partners
What it's like to be neighbors in a space that's nine inches wide.
- 2012
- 02:59
- Linda Lutton
A Coral Chain
I'll interview you, then you interview someone else.
- 2012
- 02:15
- Zak Rosen
Orange Pigeons at the Legion Post
For the first time, I visit the neighborhood skeet shoot at the American Legion Post across the road.
- 2012
- 02:59
- Sam Fuqua
Making a Bitter Beast into a Sweet Meat
How do you take an animal once on the endangered species list, and turn it into dinner?
- 2013
- 03:00
- Tina Antolini
Sweet Madness: A True Story
A dramatic monologue about one woman's obsession with tea.
- 2013
- 02:58
- Scott Priz
Appetite for Home: Bitter-Sweet Memories of Learning to Cook & Eat in America
Longtime New Yorkers recall family cooking traditions and foods from home that have been lost to immigration.
- 2013
- 02:52
- Anne Noyes Saini
Bitter Sweet Beginnings
Faced with their impending graduation, three Duke seniors reminisce about their freshman days and remember how a unique community was created around food.
- 2013
- 02:58
- Dillon Buckner
Umami (or Oooh-Mommy); The Mother of All Appetites
We all start out with one appetite, the appetite for our mother's breastmilk.
- 2013
- 02:57
- Sukey Lewis
How to Realize that Far-off, Poverty-stricken, Deathly Ill, Brown People Are Your Neighbors, too
From visceral empathy to intellectual understanding to emotional compassion, find out how you can realize that far-off, poverty-stricken, deathly ill, brown people are your neighbors, too.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Mateo Hinojosa