This hour we’re featuring some of our favourite entries to the 2016 ShortDocs Challenge! Including interviews with producers and a visit to our 2016 partner, Manual Cinema, who are adapting this year’s winning ShortDocs into a live shadow puppetry performance. Maya Turns 26 by Maya Goldberg-Safir Whether she likes it or not, things are about to change. Out of Order by La Cosa Preziosa A man & his TV crime drama-induced phobia. ragazzo incontra ragazzo by Garrett Kling A chance encounter brings together an American and Italian boy, not knowing when they’ll ever meet again. Too Many Miles * by Stephanie Rowden & Jennifer Metsker What if Robert Frost’s poem “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” were re-imagined as a film? Swimmers by Michelle Macklem A woman pieces together sonic memories and her sense of belonging through swimming. The Hadal Zone by Peregrine Andrews & Geoff Marsh Two obnoxious city boys take the Giant Squid Safari in the Sea of Japan and end up in deep trouble. What Is It Like? by Tree Mabry A look at invisibility, silhouettes, and humanity through a kaleidoscope. Dear Face at Deer Lake with Deer People * by the Dear Deer Face Collective A story about deer, a wonderful lake, internet privacy. HATCH * by Geoff McQueen A man, in orbit, going round and round… Hard-Boiled Poet by Regina Botros This hard-boiled poet cracks another case wide open. I dream of rattlesnakes ** by Todd, Sam & Belle Wemmer A contemplation on the return of rattlesnakes to Massachusetts. *= Winner **= People’s Choice Award Winner Music for this episode was composed by Matthew Bourne for his album moogmemory This episode of Re:sound was produced by Dennis Funk