2016 ShortDocs Challenge: Radio Cinema - Third Coast Picks
The results of the 2016 ShortDocs Challenge have now been announced – congratulations to our four winners! But your listening binge shouldn't stop there...
We’ve put together this playlist of more must-listen Radio Cinema stories for you to enjoy, from wacky sci-fi adventures and dark film-noir thrillers, to quirky rom-com spoofs and awe-inspiring nature docs.
And then if you're still hungry for more, grab some popcorn and head to our Audio Library to hear every single submission, as well as all ShortDocs from previous years (Netflix, eat your heart out).
A Series of Deaths in the Octopus Level
This is an adventure that was recorded outside, inside and in-games.
- 2016
- 02:22
- Adriene Lilly
By the Deer's Trail
An existential monologue of a deer along a journey that happens to be his last one.
- 2016
- 03:00
- Yakov Lurie
Bottle Service
Steve the bellhop knows the champagne goes to someone's room on the third floor, but in this hotel of mystery the question remains: who ordered the bubbly?
- 2016
- 03:00
- Allison Quantz
- Natalie Bainter
- Bethy Squires
Fembot
Hear the inner thoughts of Fembot – your ideal, socially-constructed long-distance girlfriend!
- 2016
- 02:59
- Michelle Macklem
- Katie Hill
- Matthew Kariatsumari
Fiddlehead Island
1 goof. 100 internet people. 50 000 fiddleheads.
- 2016
- 03:00
- Johnny Spence
- Veronica Simmonds
From a Distance
Standing where she always wanted to be, a woman on the moon looks at life from a distance.
- 2016
- 03:00
- Dorothea Trufelman
- Emma Lanier
Hard-Boiled Poet
This hard-boiled poet cracks another case wide open.
- 2016
- 03:00
- Regina Botros
Maya Turns 26
Whether she likes it or not, things are about to change.
- 2016
- 02:55
- Maya Goldberg-Safir
One Noir Moment
The story of a relationship with reference to our relationship to the planet.
Written and narrated by James Whitman.
- 2016
- 02:18
- RJ Phoenix
One Way
A woman in a hurry seeks refuge from a storm and finds something in common with the motel attendant.
- 2016
- 03:01
- Marie Lovejoy
Out of Order
A man & his TV crime drama-induced phobia.
- 2016
- 02:41
- La Cosa Preziosa
ragazzo incontra ragazzo
A chance encounter brings together an American and Italian boy, not knowing when they'll ever meet again.
- 2016
- 03:00
- Garrett Kling
Roger, that!
Roger, produced in multiple dimensions, must struggle with the production of his life and his life production "in space, or anywhere else."
- 2016
- 02:43
- Evelyn Bottando
Swimmers
A woman pieces together sonic memories and her sense of belonging through swimming.
- 2016
- 02:31
- Michelle Macklem
The Disappearance of George
The true story of a disappearance in the NDG neighborhood of Montreal.
- 2016
- 03:01
- Tally Abecassis
The Hadal Zone
Two obnoxious city boys take the Giant Squid Safari in the Sea of Japan and end up in deep trouble.
- 2016
- 03:01
- Peregrine Andrews
- Geoff Marsh
The Rumble
The story of the rumble.
- 2016
- 02:13
- Benedict Jones
Tornado Warning
A woman and dog hide out from a storm in her mother's strange basement.
- 2016
- 02:58
- Ellie Gordon-Moershel
Wake Up/Spring Strut
Springtime teases awake a hibernating soul in order to experience it's holy wonders.
- 2016
- 03:00
- Sara Curtis
What Is It Like?
A look at invisibility, silhouettes, and humanity through a kaleidoscope.
- 2016
- 02:59
- Tree Mabry
Where's Abel?
Abel's fate is confirmed by an eyewitness who survived a suicide bombing in Afghanistan.
- 2016
- 03:00
- John Bechtold