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.
My Life as a Cup
2007 ShortDocs Winner! The triumphs and regrets of a cup.
- 2007
- 03:02
- Sean Hurley
Mug Stories
A coffee mug holds a special place in the heart of its owner.
- 2007
- 02:42
- Audrey Berns
The Mousetrap Enthusiasts
My brother and I thought the greatest Christmas gift we ever gave each other were mousetrap stocking stuffers . . .
- 2007
- 03:00
- Jamie Dell'Apa
Bicycle Belles
On the boardwalk, in search of the sound of bicycle bells.
- 2007
- 02:40
- Stephanie Rowden
Actionwomen
Audio montage featuring the voices of women protesters and a service man remembering life in the 1980s at Greenham Common, England, a miitary base for American nuclear missiles.
- 2007
- 02:46
- Anna Norberg
- Simon Norberg
Thrown
A fourteen-year-old girl tries to throw her voice and ends up getting thrown herself.
- 2007
- 02:59
- Roxana Hadad
- Shiow-Jiau Yung
Stood There Ringing
A pregnant woman lets a bell say everything she can't.
- 2007
- 03:00
- Megan Stielstra
- Shiow-Jiau Yung
Lapsed Trappist
The gripping tale of a troubled Buddhist as he struggles with morals and mice in this short radio fiction based rather loosely on a true story.
- 2007
- 03:00
- Philip Briant
- Stuart Ewings
Of Mice and Music
Tragic kitchen incident inspires manic musings on singing mice.
- 2007
- 03:00
- David Swatling
My Bike Had a Burger Bell: A Tragic Tale of Loss and Woe
This is a true story about bike commuting, theft and making the best of a bad situation.
- 2007
- 03:00
- Mia Lobel
Bike Bell Bandito
A short tale of youth and nostalgia, bringing back past memories of the notorious nerve racking bike bell that we loved -- and mom hated!
- 2007
- 02:58
- Darlene Dennard
Tea for Matilda
Feminist historian Sally Roesch Wagner muses that well-behaved women rarely make history while mis-behaved radicals, such as 19th century women's rights and peace activist Matilda Joslyn Gage, seldom make history books.
- 2007
- 03:00
- Catherine Stifter
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
An American Tail
Cats and mice, peace and war, Russia and the USA -- do you still believe in these oppositions?
- 2007
- 02:32
- Anastasia Ivanova
Curve of the Earth
A small bicycle bell rings in a big landscape.
- 2007
- 02:50
- Keith Taylor
- Stephanie Rowden
The Mousetrap
This is a highly fictionalized retelling of a real life tale of the trapping and killing of a mouse in Fresno, California.
- 2007
- 02:57
- Donovan Keith
- Tamara Keith
Tintinnabulation (Florence, Italy)
Florence is a city filled with bells: church bells, hand bells, door bells, bike bells . . .
- 2007
- 03:00
- Lisa Tharpe
Daisy Chaining
A daughter and her father argue about the relative merits of his vocation.
- 2007
- 02:54
- Joe Giovannetti
Hickory Dickory Mouse
A story of nursery rhymes and life with mice.
- 2007
- 02:32
- Karen Michel
Stupid, Stupid Cup
Fictional account of bad behavior inspired by the mug.
- 2007
- 02:52
- Sue Mell
Ayla
Here's a story of newness and wonder and remembering experience before language.
- 2007
- 02:53
- WJ Carlton
Presenting the 2007 TCF ShortDocs: Dollar Storeys
For the 2007 ShortDocs Challenge, the Third Coast was inspired by and collaborated with the Dollar Store Show - a regular reading and performance series in Chicago.
- 2007
- 57:27
Living off the Land
A Labor Day homage to women.
- 2007
- 02:43
- Nanette Drake Oldenbourg
Gone Mousin'
In the Last Frontier, sometimes it isn't "Go Fish," it's "Go Mouse."
- 2007
- 02:59
- Rebecca Sheir