17th Annual Sidewalk Film Festival: Full Schedule

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.

This schedule is subject to change.

4:00pm CDT

Back to the Future Part II Sponsored by Golden Flake

Limited Capacity seats available

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Flying cars? Nope. Hoverboards? Nuh-uh. Rampant 1980s nostalgia? Well, they got that one right. Compare director Robert Zemeckis’s vision of 2015 with the real thing by revisiting Back to the Future Part II. The 1989 sequel to the time-travel comedy classic finds Marty McFly and Doc Brown traveling from 1985 to 2015 to save Marty’s kids from shame and a criminal record. In doing so, they open the door for Biff Tannen to change history. Can they set the timeline right again?

- Corey Craft

Filmmakers/Artists

Robert Zemeckis

Robert Lee Zemeckis is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter.

Sponsors

Golden Flake

Sunday August 30, 2015 4:00pm - 5:48pm CDT
McWane Science Center 200 19th St N, Birmingham, AL 35203

Feature

Genre Sci-Fi, Comedy
Category Narrative
Sidebar Family Film Fest
Area USA
IMDb www.imdb.com/title/tt0096874/combined

5:00pm CDT

For A Few Zombies More Sponsored by Davis Architects

Limited Capacity seats available

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We’re proud to premiere the ultimate southern-fried zombie apocalypse comedy you never knew you were begging for. Set ten years after Hide and Creep, a video store clerk-turned wandering gunslinger teams up with a woman with a mysterious past. Together they must fight off a gang of bandits and rescue a scientist who may have the key to ridding the world of the undead. Fueled with blood soaked comedy and action, For a Few Zombies More reigns as the cinematic love-child of John Carpenter and Hal Needham.

- Kyle McKinnon

Filmmakers/Artists

Chance Shirley

Chuck Hartsell

I'm the co-director, co-writer, and co-star of the new film, "For a Few Zombies More," a sequel to the 2004 feature "Hide and Creep" that I also co-directed with Chance Shirley.

Sponsors

Davis Architects

Sunday August 30, 2015 5:00pm - 6:30pm CDT
Carver Theatre 1631 4th Ave N, Birmingham, AL 35203

Feature

Genre Horror, Comedy
Category Narrative
Sidebar Alabama
Area USA
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6:30pm CDT

Closing Night Film: Apartment Troubles Sponsored by Carrigan's Public House

Limited Capacity seats available

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Starring the creative minds behind its writing and direction, Apartment Troubles follows a pair of dysfunctional roommates in their attempt to escape eviction by their reasonably frustrated Manhattan landlord. Jennifer Prediger plays Olivia, a spiritually inclined actress, alongside Jess Weixler as Nicole, a conceptual artist. When their landlord’s patience runs out and Nicole’s cat dies under mysterious circumstances, the duo decides to hit the road and visit Nicole’s wealthy aunt (played by Megan Mullally) on the opposite coast. Between reality TV try-outs, tarot card readings and shotgunning deserts the pair question the nature and future of their co-dependent friendship. Apartment Troubles is hilarious, charming, astute and not-to-be-missed.

- Hallie Tarpley & Jaxon Thomley

Filmmakers/Artists

Jennifer Prediger

Jennifer Prediger is a New York City–based actress, writer, and director known for the films A Teacher (2013), Life of Crime (2013), and Apartment Troubles(2014)—her directorial debut with collaborator Jess Weixler. Prediger also played and wrote Ask Umbra, the "worl... Read More →

Jess Weixler

Jessica "Jess" Weixler is an American actress. She is best known as the lead character Dawn O'Keefe in the comedy-horror film Teeth and the comedy The Big Bad Swim... Read More →

Sponsors

Carrigan's Public House

Sunday August 30, 2015 6:30pm - 8:05pm CDT
Alabama Theatre 1817 3rd Ave N, Birmingham, AL 35203

Feature

Genre Comedy, Drama
Category Narrative
Area USA
IMDb www.imdb.com/title/tt2977110/combined