TCF Award Recipients

HATCH

A man, in orbit, going round and round...

2016
02:29
Geoff McQueen

Dead Mom Talking

"If you want to talk to me when I'm dead, go to the bench."

2016
12:50
Rachel Matlow

Journey

A spare and gripping account of one family's journey fleeing violence in Afghanistan.

2016
09:21
Jamil

W. Kamau Bell asks his Mom about Sex

For most of his life, comedian W. Kamau Bell assumed his single mom never had sex after she made him.

Mariya

Mariya Karimjee was a teenager in Texas when she first confronted her mother about the genital cutting she'd undergone as a child in Pakistan.

A Life Sentence: Victims, Offenders, Justice, and My Mother

The story of a terrible crime and everything that followed.

Lance and Nina: An Unlikely Story of Recovery and Redemption

At 24, Lance Rice was on schedule to become another sad statistic in the heroin epidemic sweeping through rural Massachusetts.

2014
08:28
Karen Brown

The Hospital Always Wins

Back in 2004, Laura Starecheski visited a mental hospital in Queens, N.Y. called Creedmoor, where she met a patient named Issa Ibrahim.

A Sentencing Hearing

On August 1, 2015 Glendale Police Officer Eric Guse received a call about a carjacking that would change his life.

Sel: Trois Façons (Salt: Three Ways)

2013 ShortDocs Winner! No one has an appetite for perfection and swearing like a Québécois in search of poutine.

2013
02:59
Kelly Jones

Crown the King: Red Takes Black

2012 ShortDocs Winner! One block from Adam Kampe's apartment sits the Capitol Pool Checkers Club where, each week, men with nicknames like the Hammer, the Pressure Man, and the Razor gather to trash talk over heated games of checkers.

2012
02:32
Adam Kampe

Glass, Not Glitter

2012 ShortDocs Winner! Neighbors of the Murrah Federal building recall the 1995 bombing that altered the life and culture of Oklahoma City.

2012
02:54
Abby Wendle

The Red, White, and Blue Bus

2012 ShortDocs Winner! The familiar faces of the red, white and blue bus, whose lives I will never know.

2012
03:00
Luke Eldridge

Teen Contender

Sixteen-year-old Claressa Shields has a dream, to be at the 2012 Olympic finals and hear the announcer call out, "The first woman Olympian boxer at 165 pounds - Claressa Shields!"

What Happened at Dos Erres

In 1982, the Guatemalan military massacred the villagers of Dos Erres, killing more than 200 people.

String

Ever noticed it's the hard decisions that are often the easiest ones to make, and the inconsequential ones that can twist you into a knot?

2012
20:19
Natalie Kestecher

Living 9/11

A decade ago, WNYC's news team spent days, months, and then years reporting on the World Trade Center attacks and their aftermath.

She Sees Your Every Move

While traditional street photography usually catches strangers passing by in a public space, the photographer Michele Iversen has been catching strangers passing by in their own private spaces, without their permission.

2012
06:33
Jonathan Mitchell

Big Ship Diary

Each year, over 100 million tons of iron ore, coal, limestone and other products travel through the Great Lakes navigation system on huge cargo ships.