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.

Sweet Order
An insatiable passion for keeping lists brings order to each new day... and prepares for the next.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Java Bere
- Jon Tipler

My Sweet Brother
Elaine Taylor's brother Clark has kidney disease - and it's been progressing for years.
- 2013
- 03:14
- Elaine Taylor and Clint Holgate
All Foods Lead to Home (Sweet Home)
Road Rage is transformed by Passionately Prepared Comestibles.
- 2013
- 03:13
- Phyllis Janik
Sweet Baby June Eats the World
One night in the life of our 8 month old daughter, June.
- 2013
- 02:47
- Matt Largey

Sweet, Sweet Solitude
A young girl rants about annoyances that are brought up frequently in her daily life while listing why her way of living is superior to most others.
- 2013
- 02:42
- Emily Hartman
- Lauren Vieni
- Michael Abramczyk

Home Sweet Homemade Bread
My mom has been making homemade bread for as long as I can remember; here is her recipe.
- 2013
- 02:33
- Caytlinn Strickland

Sweet In Action
When we feel bad we often make ourselves feel worse when better is so much easier than we think.
- 2013
- 02:41
- AnnMarie Miller

Bitter Herbs, Sweet Freedom
At a Passover dinner, two friends celebrate their exodus from a fundamentalist Hasidic community.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Frimet Goldberger

Suite for a Salty Standard
My neighbor Ellen swings a classic (from the I Hate to Cook Book, circa 1960.)
- 2013
- 02:59
- Stephanie Rowden

Bittersweet For Left Hand Only
The ways hands make us human.
- 2013
- 02:50
- Magdalen Jenne

My Mommy's Umami Latkes
Once a year my extended family comes together for three courses in tradition: making latkes, dinner conversation and finally, the ongoing memories we create together during our annual Hanukkah party.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Bari Finkel

Chocolate is a Sweet Distraction
The founder of Patric Chocolate finds his way to love and sweets in an unexpected way.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Scott Pham

No Appetite for Bitter Old Men
Christ! I smoke cigarettes! Leave me alone!
- 2013
- 02:52
- Ruslan Kulski

A Sweet Boy That Can't Savor
For most New Yorkers being surrounded by food is a blessing, but for one boy in Queens it's tormenting.
- 2013
- 02:55
- Will Denselow

Umami to the Ears
Weirdo Records is a closet-sized vinyl shop in Cambridge, Massachusetts where Angela Sawyer hosts experimental music concerts, for those with a unique and unorthodox musical taste.
- 2013
- 02:40
- Brittany Gervais
- Victoria Bedford

One Man's Sour is Another Man's Sweet
Maximus Thaler has an interesting relationship with food.
- 2013
- 02:56
- Abigail Collins
- Victoria Bedford

Feast and Famine: A Bitter Cure to Finally Forgetting Your Ex
Kurt Callum woke up one morning and realized he had gone fourteen days straight without thinking even once of his ex or their bitter break-up.
- 2013
- 02:50

Bitter Yellow Pills
Lorraine explores what happens when the body gets an appetite for itself.
- 2013
- 03:01
- Lorraine Boissoneault

Passing on Sweet
How do recipes get passed on?
- 2013
- 02:12
- Belle Wemmer
- Todd Wemmer

Bottling Hell: Remembering Mr. Murphree and the Spicy-Sweet Datil Pepper of St. Augustine
"Bottled hell" is a local term for the blow-your-socks off spicy datil pepper sauce ubiquitous in St. Augustine, FL.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Anna Hamilton
Salty Relocation
Chronicling my love for snacks amidst my relocation from the U.S. to Cairo, Egypt.
- 2013
- 02:05
- Kim Fox

Savoring the Salty Ritual
Marinating in the kitchen.
- 2013
- 02:59
- Sara Curtis

The Last Morning was a Sweet One
2013 ShortDocs Winner! A short story in sounds of our food's start to finish, from morning to night (though not necessarily in the same day!)
- 2013
- 02:56
- Alix Blair

Sounds Tasty, Salty Too
Bartleby's appetite for fun sets he and his brother Artemus on their way for their smallest adventure yet, into the game room for an unexpectedly flavorful time.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Isaac Bluefoot

One Man's Sour, Another Man's Sweet
Kerry Klein brings reclaimed food to a potluck - and doesn't tell anyone.
- 2013
- 03:00
- Kerry Klein