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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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

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.