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.
Between Two Buns: The Sweet Story of Burger Sobriety
For Andrew's sister, eating a hamburger is a sublime experience.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Andrew Norton
Bittersweet TV
A television studio executive is challenged to dream up a ludicrous reality TV show idea and succeeds.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Audrey Dilling
- Ben Trefny
Selling Sweet and Salty
How does light, sound and language change the perception of food?
- 2013
- 02:57
- Alex Grant
- Andy Erickson
Bitter Taste of Murder
Will the intrepid detective solve the murder most foul at Tragedy Castle?
- 2013
- 02:41
- Scott Priz
- Elisa Shoenberger
Sweet Memory Rooh Afzah
Eva Panjwani was five years old when she emigrated from Pakistan to the United States.
- 2013
- 02:41
- Madeline Miller
A Bitter Taste Memory
A mother remembers her troubling, unshakeable food addiction.
- 2013
- 02:24
- Julia Scott
I'm Salty
I'm Salty -- Put me in your mouth!
- 2013
- 02:51
- Adam Lee
Taste of Bitter Love
Coffee roaster Hans-Erik discusses taste associations and developing a taste vocabulary.
- 2013
- 02:35
- Michael James Lewis
A Sister's Sweet Victory
My passion, hunger and desire to find my sister; strangely connected through food.
- 2013
- 02:56
- John Mackniskas
- Maureen Sanchez
Bittersweet
A golfer's drive and hunger to be great.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Zac Strohfus
Sweet Aunt Nuska
Aunt Nuska has lost her appetite and the whole family bonds together to find a remedy for her.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Jeremy W.
- Matt Thomas
The Sweet Note
My father expresses his long-lasting appetite for the guitar and finding that sweet note.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Callie Stewart
Sweet Discoveries: One Man's Life as a Dumpster Diver
Elizabeth goes on a walk with Andy, her former housemate, and asks him about living off of food from dumpsters.
- 2013
- 02:59
- Elizabeth Delaquess
Deep Sweet Roots
Moi is a third generation Hawaiian who runs a shack by the side of the road.
- 2013
- 02:22
- Myra Dettelbach
The Red Cardigan
The legendary Mr. Rogers was everybody's favorite neighbor... except for maybe my friend Sarah.
- 2012
- 02:59
- Milos Balac
Paint The Amish Horse Black and White
Much more than black or white, the story of a painted horse told around an Amish table.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Emily Newton
The Bitter, the Sour and the Sweet
My sleeping habits compared to a restaurant menu, including three courses; starter, main dish, dessert.
- 2013
- 02:08
- Basma Abdelhafiz
Red Van Refuge
Teri La Roca looks out for the peeps in our hood, especially our neighbors that some disregard and would rather forget.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Tennessee Watson
Random Ghost Behavior: The Center is Always White
Do spirits exist?
- 2012
- 02:59
- Jacob Gigler-Caro
The Internet in Sepia
The internet through the eyes of an inhabitant of the past...
- 2012
- 02:50
- Helena de Groot
Eight Beige Floors
A brief look at a neighborhood many have lived in, but no one stays in for long.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Abigail Keel
Green Slime to Dark Days: Neighbors in 4D
I take one place, look at what or who lived there over a very very long period of time, and give you the edited highlights.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Marnie Chesterton
Peacock Blues
Warfare breaks out between neighbors when a burgeoning battalion of peacocks ravish the countryside.
- 2012
- 02:58
- Ellen Stewart
Crimson Cries, Blue Echoes
A neighborhood rooster searches for his lost mate and awakens fresh grief.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Mary T. Diorio Schilling
The Red, White, and Blue Bus
2012 ShortDocs Winner! The familiar faces of the red, white and blue bus, whose lives I will never know.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Luke Eldridge