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.

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That Close

Montreal's Royal Park is the backdrop to a woman's memories and the place where she is most at home.

2008
03:02
Eva Boodman

True Blue Light

A man with a microphone meets a small town neighbor on a mission.

Tornado Warning

A woman and dog hide out from a storm in her mother's strange basement.

Tracy's Lost & Found

When a strange item is left behind in a motel room, a lost & found coordinator is forced to confront her own life's meaning.

Truck Stop Transformation

At the World's Largest Truck Stop in Walcott, Iowa, nothing is simply what it is.

2016
03:00
Jake J. Smith

TAPE_003

A man searches through his tapes looking for a lost memory.

2016
03:00
Oliver Morris

Tapeletter From Denmark

A man misses his sister.

2006
02:31
Soren Prehn Jensen

Time for Change

Boston Common + drum + activist + drunken panhandler = police intervention.

Trouble in Vietnam

Robert McNamara, the Soviet Ambassador and President Lyndon Johnson face off in a historical remix.

2006
02:32
Theo Lipfert

This Was a Crucial Place

A former inmate (John McCullough), a former guard (Donald Vaughn) and Steve Buscemi guide the listener through 1960's prison reform via the Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia, PA.

2006
03:04
Peter Crimmins

Train Wars

Jayne Fenton Keane talks with India's former Socialist Defence Minister, Mr. George Fernandes, and former President of the Socialist Party of India, Ms. Jaya Jaitley, about the Railway Strikes of 1975 that brought down Sonia Ghandi's government.

2006
02:30
Jayne Fenton Keane

The Trophy

A man returns, victorious, from the hunt. Curious onlookers react to the killing. But they're not all looking at the same animal.

2016
03:03
Hannah Colton

Truck Wild and Ramped Umami Stories

Former coal miner and mountain man extraordinaire Jay Spencer hunts for aromatic wild leeks in the forest outside Richwood, West Virginia, a lumber town and Ramp Capital of the World.

2013
03:00
Joanna Greer

There's No Umami in the Army

Former military chef Danny Davis takes us through a 24-hour ration pack.

2013
03:00
Benedikte Granvig

Through the Brownstone Walls

A story about the strange things we overhear from our neighbors.

That's So Sweet You Shouldn't Have

What happens when you stop eating dessert but can't bring yourself to say "No" to people's generosity?

2013
03:30

Three Bitter Stories of Food and a Cruel Song

Three stories in French: poison, horrible cookies and a cannibal.

2013
03:15
Laurence Courtois

There's No Saccharine in this Sweet School

Follow Sierra on her progressive college journey as she realizes that finding the right college is as difficult as Goldilocks finding the right bowl of porridge.

2013
03:00
Sierra Ponthier

True Blue - The Story of Anzac Day

Here's the untold story of the origins of Anzac Day.

2012
03:01
David Stephenson

That Mill House Yellow

In Chapel Hill, North Carolina, gentrification advances with a cautionary yellow light as a local property manger paints the town his own special hue.