2019 Third Coast / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition
ABOUT THE 2019 COMPETITION
The 2019 TC/RHDF Competition celebrates the best non-fiction audio stories on radio, podcasts, the internet, and more. Prizes are awarded for the best work in the following categories: Best Documentary, Best New Artist, Radio Impact, Best Serialized Story, Best News Feature, Best Foreign Language and Skylarking. The winners are chosen by a group of judges, who are each experienced makers themselves. Third Coast selects one standout audio piece — regardless of category — for the Director's Choice award.
Best of the Best: The 2019 Third Coast Festival Broadcast
Best of the Best is Third Coast's annual radio special, showcasing the winners of the Third Coast / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition.
Distributed by PRX and available on our podcast, Best of the Best is played by radio stations nationwide over the Thanksgiving and winter holidays. Listen to all episodes of the 2019 Best of the Best special program: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4.
The Return
Winner of the 2019 Third Coast / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition Best Documentary: Gold Award
Javier Zamora was born in El Salvador and his grandparents still live there. But visiting them didn't feel like the home he once knew.
- 2019
- 31:10
- Sayre Quevedo
This Is Not A Drill
Winner of the 2019 Third Coast / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition Best Documentary: Silver Award
An emotional dive into the personal impact of the false missile alert that was sent out across Hawaii.
A Sense of Quietness
Winner of the 2019 Third Coast / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition Best Documentary: Bronze Award
Four women face the unexpected consequences of talking about abortion.
- 2018
- 0
- Eleanor McDowall
ROW-cub
Winner of the 2019 Third Coast / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition Best Documentary: Honorable Mention Award
A granddaughter and a grandmother try to communicate across generations, languages and phone lines.
- 2024
- 04:21
- Neena Pathak
Price of Secrecy: Hazineh Razdari
Winner of the 2019 Third Coast / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition Best Documentary in a Non-English Language Award
An unexpected turn of events occurs when 15-year-old Tannaz tells the police about being sexually abused by a friend.
- 2019
- 40:36
- Zoha Zokaei
Mardi Gras is a State of Mind
Winner of the 2019 Third Coast / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition Best New Artist Award
A homosexual reflection on an effort to release ourselves from misshapen containers.
- 2019
- 11:32
- Mara Lazer
Death in Illinois Prisons: He Didn't Have a Death Sentence, But That's What He Got
Winner of the 2019 Third Coast / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition Best News Feature Award
For the last year, Shannon Heffernan has been trying to figure out how and why people in Illinois prisons are dying.
- 2019
- 06:50
- Shannon Heffernan
Punks
Winner of the 2019 Third Coast / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition Skylarking Award
Once upon a time, Kai Wright saw a movie called Punks. A romantic comedy about black gay men, it was like nothing he'd ever seen before. But then it disappeared.
- 2018
- 21:43
- Kathy Tu
- Tobin Low
- Matt Collette
Change Intolerance
Winner of the 2019 Third Coast / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition Radio Impact Award
In 2014, the province of British Columbia switched nearly 15,000 methadone patients to a new formulation of the drug called Methadose.
- 2019
- 51:18
- Garth Mullins
- Sam Fenn
- Lisa Hale
- Alexander B. Kim
- Ryan McNeil
No Feeling Is Final
Winner of the 2019 Third Coast / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition Director's Choice Award
Usually when we talk about suicide we say those four magic words: "Just ask for help." But Honor Eastly knows it’s not that simple.
In the Dark: Season Two
Winner of the 2019 Third Coast / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition Best Serialized Story Award
Over the course of two decades, prosecutor Doug Evans tried the same man six times for the same crime. But that man, Curtis Flowers, maintained his innocence throughout.