The 17th Annual Sidewalk Film Festival August 28-30
Sidewalk Film Festival is produced by the Alabama Moving Image Association, a federally recognized 501c3 non-profit organization with a mission to inspire, encourage and support filmgoers, the city of Birmingham and the filmmaking community. In addition to hosting the annual film festival, we host monthly networking and educational events, a monthly documentary series, short film and screenwriting competitions, manage a youth board and a variety of other year-round programs.
Tickets sales to our events cover approximately 1/3 of our annual operating cash budget, so we depend on corporate sponsors, grant-making organizations and individuals like you to survive. if you’d like to know more about supporting Sidewalk, please contact us at sidewalk@sidewalkfest.com.
Boxeadora Dir: Meg Smaker RT 16 min. USA One woman defies Fidel Castro's ban on female boxing to follow her dreams of Olympic glory and become Cuba's first female boxer.
I Thought I Told You to Shut Up!! Dir: Charlie Tyrell RT 13 min. Canada In the late 1970s, David Boswell created Reid Fleming, the World's Toughest Milkman, a comic book anti-hero and counter culture icon. Now, over 30 years later, the character is still mired in contractual limbo or development hell.
Unmappable Dir: Diane Hodson, Jasmine Luoma RT 23 min. USA A meditative portrait of Denis Wood, an iconoclastic psychographer and convicted sex offender. The film explores the events that have defined his life by pointing at ideas, thoughts, and beliefs that we usually do not think of as being mappable or explainable.
American Renaissance Dir: Ryan Scafuro, Jarred Alterman RT 10 min. USA Explore the fantastic world of Elizabethan England… in a small town in upstate New York. “American Renaissance” takes you on a rollicking journey to one of the largest renaissance faires in the US.
Klan Rally in Chapel Hill 1987 Dir: Michael Galinsky, Suki Hawley RT: 4 min. USA. A marriage of sound and photos from a Ku Klux Klan rally in Chapel Hill, N.C., in June 1987.
Father Dir: Tresa Ponnor RT: 10 min. Australia A story about fathers: one physical, one spiritual. A young Vietnamese-Australian man and his father share their journeys of sacrifice, isolation and freedom.
Dockery & Son Dir: Jack Truman RT 13 min. USA Real-life mother and son filmmaking team Opal Dockery and Jack Truman share an eye-opening slice of life from a day in the life at their real life thrift store in the ghost town of Milford, Missouri: population 26.
Dolphin Lover Dir: Kareem Tabsch, Joey Daoud RT: 15 min. USA The true story of Malcolm Brenner and his romantic and sexual love affair with Dolly, a captive bottlenose dolphin.
Bad Boy of Bowling Dir: Bryan Storkel RT 19 min. USA The past, present, and future of bowling as seen through the eyes of Pete Weber, the championship winning and self declared "bad boy of bowling."
