ANNOUNCING...THE WINNERS!

[Source: Third Coast International Audio Festival, October 30, 2010]

The winners of the 2010 Third Coast / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition were unveiled at an Awards Ceremony in Chicago, on Saturday, October 30th. Click on the links below to hear excerpts from the winning stories, then check back in mid-November to find full versions of the winners, for a limited time.

BEST DOCUMENTARY: GOLD AWARD
An Interior Life
by Laurence Grissell (UK)

BEST DOCUMENTARY: SILVER AWARD
Willie McGee and the Traveling Electric Chair
by Joe Richman and Samara Freemark with Bridgette McGee (USA)

BEST DOCUMENTARY: BRONZE AWARD
This Can Go On Forever
by Shea Shackelford and Virginia Millington (USA)

BEST DOCUMENTARY: HONORABLE MENTION AWARD
The Lonely Funeral 
by Michele Ernsting (The Netherlands)

BEST DOCUMENTARY: HONORABLE MENTION AWARD
Capturing the Brief Life and Death of an Infant
by Mary Beth Kirchner (USA)

THIRD COAST DIRECTORS' CHOICE AWARD
The Loneliness of the Goalkeeper 
by Adam Fowler with presenter Hardeep Singh Kohli (UK)

RADIO IMPACT AWARD
American Dreamer: Sam’s Story
by Dan Collison and Elizabeth Meister (USA) 

BEST NEWS FEATURE AWARD
Sucked into the Tunnels Beneath Las Vegas
by Adam Burke (USA)

BEST NEW ARTIST AWARD
The Sleeping Fool
by Sofia Saldanha (Portugal)