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.
Levitating Stone
In a small village in India, a 90 KG stone levitates when the name of sufi saint Qamar Ali Dervish is chanted.
- 2006
- 02:31
- Jeanette Werkhoven
Love after Life
The story of how love can transgress through all realms of life and death.
Life Drive
In 1961 during the fascist regime in Portugal, a group of political prisoners escape from a fortress prison in a bullet proof Chrysler Imperial - the car that belonged to the dictator himself.
Voiceover by Jay Buettner; Additional voice by Carlos Patrão.
- 2016
- 03:00
- Carlo Patrao
Life Is Sweet Again
Lucy Beesley's determination to fight off cancer and live normally has resulted in a life even sweeter than before.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Bryony Hawkins
Love Tastes Like Umami Poutine
A love story about food, a food story about love in three courses: poutine, foie gras, bone marrow.
- 2013
- 02:59
- Sara Ananda Badger
Lemon, Lime and Bitters
One man has an appetite for alcohol.
Lunch Club: A Salty Manifesto
There are only 3 Rules to Lunch Club...
- 2013
- 02:06
- Ian Davis and Mwende Hahesy
Logan Square's Brown Bread Underground
On one block in Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood, an unnamed baker whips up artisan sourdoughs to sell to his neighbors.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Annie Minoff
Loving Charcoal
A portrait of Anna, who lives one floor below me, and her hamster.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Yarn AudioWorks
Look Toward the Blue
As a new resident of one of the oldest neighborhoods in Portland, Maine, I set out one day armed with a recorder and mic in hopes of meeting some of my new neighbors.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Laura Candler