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.
Invisible Greek Rain
Every book seems to be a small universe, every title is like four "visible" percent of this universe.
- 2008
- 02:35
- Anastasia Ivanova
If It Hurts, You Breathe Faster
Buffalo resident Kathy Mecca has been resisting a proposed expansion of the Peace Bridge that threatens to destroy residential homes, architecturally important buildings, and mature trees in a neighborhood that has higher than average rates of asthma.
- 2008
- 03:00
- Fereshteh Toosi
I'm Alive
A bell realizes it's alive while on a conveyor belt and then en route to a dollar store.
- 2007
- 01:03
- Brian Corbet
I Was a Preteen Nightmare
A well-intentioned yet horribly misinformed adolescent makes a monumental miscalculation of both form and judgment.
- 2007
- 03:03
- Jill Dorothy Summers
The Irresistible Draw of the Dollar Store
A dollar store addict is confronted with a horrifying discovery among the aisles.
- 2007
- 02:38
- Kevin Theis
Invasion
One mother's attempt to fight off an invasion of mice just after her two-year-old son has been diagnosed with leukemia.
- 2007
- 03:00
- Robert McGinley Myers
I've Got a Question for You
Making cold calls, in search of warmth.
- 2007
- 02:53
- Zak Rosen
I'm Not Bossy
Three mothers read slogans found on women's T-shirts in a local mall.
- 2007
- 02:41
- Gabe Bullard
I Would Like to Introduce You to My Mom
This is an ode to my mother and to all the similarities between us that I'm learning to embrace with the help of Tommy James and the Shondells.
- 2008
- 02:59
- Molly Adams
I Thought I'd Be Rewarded for My Dating Gumption
You think you're being mature and courageous, trait which will surely be rewarded with reciprocal sentiments of love...right?
- 2007
- 03:00
- Saya April Hillman
I dream of rattlesnakes
A contemplation of the return of rattlesnakes to Massachusetts.
- 2016
- 03:00
- Todd Wemmer
- Sam Wemmer
- Belle Wemmer
Into the Darkness: Presenting the 2004 TCF ShortDocs
For the 2004 ShortDocs Challenge, we asked producers to submit ideas for stories about "darkness."
- 2004
- 01:27:17
Is That My Imagination?
2008 ShortDocs Winner! The story of a mind on strike.
- 2008
- 03:00
- Meghan Vigeant
The Indian Ocean
How did the mammoths die? Where did the Indian Ocean come from?
- 2006
- 02:30
- Delaney Hall
- Nick Hunt
- Rachel Pearson
I Didn't Know That (Blindwalking)
It's rather difficult to walk down the street with your eyes closed. But one of us tried to, here is the result.
- 2010
- 02:59
- Andrey Pronin
- Artyom Vysochenko
- Ksenia Donskaya
In Search of Bitter Greens
With the guidance of an outdoor educator, the producers learn to forage for their supper.
- 2013
- 02:47
- Bridget Bancroft
- Erica Stone
In Which the Coffee Mugs Offer Explanation
In which the coffee mugs offer explanation.
- 2007
- 02:53
- Laura Vitale
- Rick Moody
In Order to Remember
Stories, photos, tape . . . all ways of recording, of trying to preserve, that which is so ephemeral to begin with: our memories.
- 2008
- 02:56
- David Graham
- Sue Mell
I've Never Lived in Chicago
A docu-song about a broken dream, made from interview tape.
- 2009
- 02:16
- Jonathan Mitchell
I Didn't Know That - 5
A woman realizes that her partner isn't all she thought he was.
- 2010
- 01:36
- Paul Staunton
- Rachel Ní Chuinn
I Didn't Know That - 1
A working man spots a beautiful woman in a restaurant while waiting for his food.
- 2010
- 03:00
- Curtis Williams
- Masaki Araya
I Didn't Know That - 10
On a rare sunny day in Seattle, we walk around the neighborhood and learn from strangers what we don't know.
- 2010
- 02:16
- Emily Eagle
- Jenny Asarnow
I Didn't Know That - 8
Sisters Joyce Brilbeck and Kaye Logan share memories about growing up around Ballantyne Road near Onondaga Creek in Syracuse, NY.
- 2010
- 01:45
- Farsheed Toosi
- Fereshteh Toosi
I Didn't Know That - 9
A man drives through rural Illinois to find an answer to future questions.
- 2010
- 03:02
- Joe Bruce
- Veronica Soria
It's Coming
Something is coming for a man struggling to survive - is it Spring, Redemption, Revenge or Death?
- 2016
- 02:03
- Chandler Murray