ShortDocs
Discover hundreds of short audio gems produced in response to a prompt from Third Coast for the ShortDocs Competition, hosted between 2003 and 2016. Each year ushered in a new set of rules, new creative partners, and ever-more magical results.

Bellhop
So we were lied to.
- 2016
- 02:19
- Garrett Tiedemann

Birding 101
This ShortDoc takes a walk in a local cemetery as you hear the typical dialogue between fellow birdwatchers and follow one birder in particular.
- 2016
- 02:57
- Nick Russo

(Bon Jovi) Didn't Know That
When up and coming pop singer Alison Scott loses the chance to open for Bon Jovi, there's only one person who can help.
- 2010
- 02:59
- Steve Nelson

Bring on Jesus!
Superstition, money, rules, bullshit, loud guitars, talking Moses and Jesus, and Santa!
- 2006
- 02:31
- Big Swifty

Both My Houses (Ma Maison En Deux)
You live in media you watch and listen to. I live in France, listen in Britain and dream outside.
- 2006
- 02:30
- Marjorie Van Helteren

Big Bang
Two lousy-sounding atoms can't get along, cause the Big Bang, and disrupt present-day international harmony.
- 2006
- 02:30
- David Polk

Blind Date
A G-Rated ice-breaker that would be told during a female bonding session.
- 2006
- 02:31
- Kay Collins

Best Friends
A conversation on the incapacity to communicate.
- 2006
- 01:27
- Keith Brand

Buddhist Mice
Buddhist teachings and mouse death.
- 2007
- 02:53
- Karen Michel

Badlands
A paddle down the Red Deer River in Canada's Badlands leads to a reflection on past worlds and the mysteries nature keeps from us.
- 2016
- 03:00
- Molly Segal

The Big Cookoff
Each year, the football teams from the U of California and Stanford U. play in The Big Game; now for the first time, they meet in the arena of cooking in The Big Cookoff.
- 2006
- 02:31
- Nico Savidge

The Bitter, Sweet Taste of Life
Three chapters about different cravings of life told by three different people.
- 2013
- 02:48
- Shahd Saleh

Bittersweet For Left Hand Only
The ways hands make us human.
- 2013
- 02:50
- Magdalen Jenne

Bitter Herbs, Sweet Freedom
At a Passover dinner, two friends celebrate their exodus from a fundamentalist Hasidic community.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Frimet Goldberger

Bitter and In
Based on excerpts from a diary of an anorexic 16-year-old.
- 2013
- 02:29
- Bridget Doherty

The Bittersweetness of God's Love (1)
Chuck Piekarski, Baker at God's Love We Deliver in New York, came to his job after experiencing a personal tragedy -- and now he's giving back.
- 2013
- 02:50
- Eric Winick

The Bittersweetness of God's Love (2)
Lisa Zullig and her team of dietitians at God's Love We Deliver provide nutritional assistance to a diverse clientele around the metro-New York City area.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Eric Winick

The Bittersweetness of God's Love (3)
Karen Pearl, CEO of God's Love We Deliver, explains the mission of the organization, and Hassan Mazyan Jr., a client, describes its impact on his life.
- 2013
- 02:59
- Eric Winick

Barry Chung's Sweet n' Sour Home
Once the child of a family living in poverty in Hong Kong, Barry Chung is now a professor at Indiana University.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Lena Morris

The Bitter-Sweet Story of a Migrant Worker
Somchai Sriweawnetr's quick thinking and courage helped to save 5 Americans in 1979 Iran.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Catherine Louli
The Bitter Loss of Flavour
The sunny bike ride that taught one young woman the painful difference between taste and flavour.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Charlotte McDonald

Bitter Yellow Pills
Lorraine explores what happens when the body gets an appetite for itself.
- 2013
- 03:01
- Lorraine Boissoneault

Bottling Hell: Remembering Mr. Murphree and the Spicy-Sweet Datil Pepper of St. Augustine
"Bottled hell" is a local term for the blow-your-socks off spicy datil pepper sauce ubiquitous in St. Augustine, FL.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Anna Hamilton

The Bitter Taste of Nicotine
My life as a smoker.
- 2013
- 02:57
- Kay Collins
Bitter Sweet
Recorded in one take, with only minor effects added.
- 2013
- 02:57
- Youssef Azmy