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.

#0000ff is Blue
No music, no human voices, computers are the future.
- 2012
- 02:06
- Chris Pollard

Blue Radio Day 2012
Children voices calling to radio days.
- 2012
- 02:20
- Chuse Fernandez

Mother Nature's Blues
We posed the question "What would you do if you were mother nature?" to our teenage neighbors and our piece features a compilation of the diverse answers we received.
- 2012
- 01:58
- Alexandros Zervos
- Djinnie Timoleon

Green Pilings
Hell and high water came, but Hurricane Katrina couldn't knock out one strong-willed Mississippi family.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Emily Liner

Sepia Elsie
90 year old Elsie remembers her dancing days before she met her husband 63 years ago.
- 2012
- 03:01
- Aaron Sand

Midnight Blues
A night like any other in an unusual life.
- 2012
- 02:39
- Chris Savell
- Justin Perleoni

Battleship Grey
This is the story of why you should never, ever, ever paint your balcony battleship grey.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Danielle Nerman

Coloring In the Great White North
Three neighbors in Fargo, ND, talk about the rapid coloring in of a town in the Great White North.
- 2012
- 02:58
- Brad Delzer
- Erika Lorentzsen

Meeting in a White Stairs
Just a little of my world in encounters with neighbors on the white stairs of my building that has no elevator!
- 2012
- 02:59
- Pedro Garbellini da Silva

Neighborhood Crimes: When Black and White is Grey
Now living in a comparatively peaceful community in Fargo, ND, Ermina Jelovac from Bosnia exposes the almost overnight change in her neighbors during the war.
- 2012
- 02:49
- Brad Delzer
- Erika Lorentzsen

Green Convenience Store
How one convenience store and its singing proprietor can change the atmosphere of a street.
- 2012
- 02:54
- Rosy Rickett

Ray, White, and Blue
Over ten years ago, two strangers were drawn together by a neighborhood handball court in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn.
- 2012
- 03:02
- Marisa Wong

Caught Red-Handed
Someone's been smoking in my building, and I want them to stop.
- 2012
- 03:02
- Chris Berube

Past the Brown Rice on Aisle 6
While at my nearby Key Foods gathering ambient sound, I happened upon this neighbor family drama set to the grocery store's soundtrack.
- 2012
- 02:00
- Audrey Quinn

Faded Red Valentines
College students in my dorm recount how their parents met.
- 2012
- 02:54
- Bianca Giaever

Peacock Blues
Warfare breaks out between neighbors when a burgeoning battalion of peacocks ravish the countryside.
- 2012
- 02:58
- Ellen Stewart

The Red, White, and Blue Bus
2012 ShortDocs Winner! The familiar faces of the red, white and blue bus, whose lives I will never know.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Luke Eldridge

Redbricks and Weatherboards
I've lived in Melbourne's suburban inner west for five years, walked my street of redbricks and weatherboards every day, but never stopped to listen until now. This is my street.
- 2012
- 02:58
- Jaye Kranz

Black and White and Read All Over
Cub reporter Leila is keeping a keen eye on Drake Avenue, especially one particular family.
- 2012
- 03:01
- Julie Shapiro

Yellow Beaks, Black Feathers, Red Blood
It's bloody, it's loud, and it smells like manure — Madani Halal is an unlikely gathering place, yet dozens of New Yorkers flock to the Queens business daily
- 2012
- 02:39
- Mollie Bloudoff-Indelicato

Paint The Amish Horse Black and White
Much more than black or white, the story of a painted horse told around an Amish table.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Emily Newton

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

The Red Cardigan
The legendary Mr. Rogers was everybody's favorite neighbor... except for maybe my friend Sarah.
- 2012
- 02:59
- Milos Balac

Duck. Duck? (Black) Goose!
A morning walk leads to neighbours never thought of in a neighbourhood much bigger than it seems.
- 2012
- 02:56
- Colm Coyne

Blue Skies, Black Fences
What does it mean to be a good neighbor? And do we actually know the people living around us?
- 2012
- 02:55
- Catie Talarski