BEHIND THE SCENES with My Umami Gas Mask

My Umami Gas Mask was one of eight finalists nominated for the 2013 People's ShortDoc Award. Here's what some of the listeners who voted for it had to say about the story

• Effective and beautifully simple creation of believable world

• Excellent storytelling along with great use of sound/audio techniques. Also good pacing; good control of narrative "tone.

• A neat little story that captures the fears and losses of a world-gone hopeless

• Unique, different and totally abstract. I real definition of the the individuals in the human race.