NEW YORK, NY November 25, 2008 —This fall the Third Coast Festival brings the best new documentaries produced worldwide to the national airwaves in a special two-hour program called the 2008 Third Coast Festival Broadcast. The featured documentaries, all winners of the eighth annual TCF / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition, represent radio at its finest: moving, insightful, surprising and sometimes even life changing.

Host Gwen Macsai, an award-winning producer and essayist is our guide through this annual tour of the world's best new documentaries.

Hear the full-length pieces that are excerpted in the program, as well as links and winner bios.