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.

Home Sweet Home
Robert Lipman, a freshman at the University of Chicago who also runs an underground pop-up gourmet restaurant in Hyde Park, discusses the surprising, nearly fatal reason for his insatiable appetite to serve high-end food.
- 2013
- 03:22
- Tanya Basu

How Sweet it is to be a Piece of Meat
A look at how our appetites can take perverse shapes and make us see our bodies in a completely different way.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Kerry Gilfillan

Happy in Black and White
This is the story of a triangular-shaped green – bordered by busy commuter roads in Dublin, Ireland – which offers a place of sanctuary to more than just people.
- 2012
- 02:57
- Nancy Previs

Hearing Red
We explore the subtle effects of noise pollution on our daily lives.
- 2012
- 02:39
- Andy Cox

How to Realize that Far-off, Poverty-stricken, Deathly Ill, Brown People Are Your Neighbors, too
From visceral empathy to intellectual understanding to emotional compassion, find out how you can realize that far-off, poverty-stricken, deathly ill, brown people are your neighbors, too.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Mateo Hinojosa

Her Beautiful Brown Burden
Little did I know that my neighbor has a special gift, which I'd like to call a beautiful brown burden.
- 2012
- 03:01
- Ashley Kim

How Chicago Hip Hop Went Platinum
The unlikely story of one man's role in the rise of Chicago hip hop.
- 2012
- 03:02
- Sophia Posnock