Best Documentary: Short (BDS)

Created in 2020, the Best Documentary: Short (BDS) category awards stories that are short in duration, but not short on craft or ambition. We created this category because we believe that the particular craft of short-form audio stories deserve a specific platform and a spotlight — and are a different conceptual beast than longer documentary projects. We are looking for stories that tell a rich, full story in 10 minutes or less.

There is one award in this category.

The 2022 Call for Entries will open in Fall 2022.

See the 2022 Third Coast/RHDF Competition page for more information. To read about other categories, click here.

PMHx

2021 / 07:01

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Centenarians in Lockdown

2020 / 06:31

When the 1918 flu pandemic broke out, Joe Newman was 5 years old. Today, he's 107. He lives in a community for seniors in Sarasota, Fla., with his fiancée, Anita Sampson.