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.

One Man's Sour is Another Man's Sweet

Maximus Thaler has an interesting relationship with food.

Umami to the Ears

Weirdo Records is a closet-sized vinyl shop in Cambridge, Massachusetts where Angela Sawyer hosts experimental music concerts, for those with a unique and unorthodox musical taste.

A Sweet Boy That Can't Savor

For most New Yorkers being surrounded by food is a blessing, but for one boy in Queens it's tormenting.

2013
02:55
Will Denselow

No Appetite for Bitter Old Men

Christ! I smoke cigarettes! Leave me alone!

2013
02:52
Ruslan Kulski

Chocolate is a Sweet Distraction

The founder of Patric Chocolate finds his way to love and sweets in an unexpected way.

2013
03:00
Scott Pham

My Mommy's Umami Latkes

Once a year my extended family comes together for three courses in tradition: making latkes, dinner conversation and finally, the ongoing memories we create together during our annual Hanukkah party.

2013
03:00
Bari Finkel

Bittersweet For Left Hand Only

The ways hands make us human.

2013
02:50
Magdalen Jenne

Suite for a Salty Standard

My neighbor Ellen swings a classic (from the I Hate to Cook Book, circa 1960.)

2013
02:59
Stephanie Rowden

Bitter Herbs, Sweet Freedom

At a Passover dinner, two friends celebrate their exodus from a fundamentalist Hasidic community.

2013
03:00
Frimet Goldberger

Sweet In Action

When we feel bad we often make ourselves feel worse when better is so much easier than we think.

2013
02:41
AnnMarie Miller

Home Sweet Homemade Bread

My mom has been making homemade bread for as long as I can remember; here is her recipe.

2013
02:33
Caytlinn Strickland

Bitter and In

Based on excerpts from a diary of an anorexic 16-year-old.

2013
02:29
Bridget Doherty

A Bitter Betrayal

What happens when you try to order 'the usual' at your neighborhood joint - and can't?

2013
03:03
Jennifer Kirby

Sweet, Sweet Victory

A regular at Victory's Banner restaurant in Roscoe Village, Marge Stumpf doesn't show up one day.

2013
03:00
Logan Jaffe

A Bitter Fight Against Child Hunger

Shannon Coffin of Good Shepherd Food Bank talks about the fight against child hunger in Maine.

2013
02:45
Leah Kaliher

The Farm-Fresh Egg: A Sweet Return

The locavore movement is sweeping the nation - and cookbook author Jennifer Thompson and a farmers market vendor explain why fresh eggs are the best eggs.