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.
In 2005, 20-year-old Ryan Ferguson was sentenced to 40 years in prison for the murder of Columbia Daily Tribune sports editor Kent Heitholt, a crime he adamantly states he did not commit. The evidence against him rested with friend, Chuck Erickson, who remembered, or possibly dreamed, that he and Ferguson were involved in the journalist’s death. Dream/Killer tells the story of how Ferguson’s father, Bill, led a 10-year campaign to prove his son’s innocence. The documentary is a powerful, disturbing look into the American judicial system.
