This year’s All Drive-in Edition of the Sidewalk Film Festival which ran August 24-30, announced the awards winners. The Audience Awards for Best Narrative Feature went to The Killing Of Kenneth Chamberlain directed by Dwight Cameron; and for Best Documentary Feature to Transhood directed by Sharon Liese. Transhood also won the prize for Best SHOUT Feature.
The Jury Awards for Best Documentary Feature went to Feels Good Man directed by Arthur Jones, and for Best Narrative Feature to dark comedy The Immortal Jellyfish directed by Dusty Bias.
Local documentary film Jasper Mall directed by Bradford Thomason and Brett Whitcomb, which looks at a year in the life of a dying shopping mall in Jasper, Alabama, won both the award for Best Alabama Feature and the Audience Award for Best Alabama Film.
2020 Sidewalk Film Festival Award Winners
JURY AWARDS
Student and Family Films
Best Student Film ($250) – Slave 2
Student Film Honorable Mention for Creativity in Editing – Lunar Powers
Best Family Film ($250) – Tobi and the Turbobus
Family Film Honorable Mention – The Treasures of Mrs. Grady’s Library
Black Lens
Best Black Lens Film ($500) – Adullam
Honorable Mention for Black Lens as a Must-See Film – After Selma
Black Lens Grant sponsored by The Law Firm of Stacey A. Davis Recipient ($1,000) – Elisha Williams
Alabama Films
Alan Hunter Best Alabama Feature ($500) – Jasper Mall
Honorable Mention for Outstanding Performance (Virginia Newcomb) and for Strength in Short-Form Storytelling – Doodle
SHOUT
Best SHOUT Feature ($500) – Transhood
Best SHOUT Short ($250) – Vote Neil
Special SHOUT Jury Mention – We
Features
Best Documentary Feature ($1,000) – Feels Good Man
Special Jury Prize for Editing – Coming Clean
Feature Programmers’ Award ($500) – Giants Being Lonely
Best Life & Liberty Film ($250) – Coming Clean
Jambor-Franklin Founders’ Award for Best Narrative Feature ($1,000) – The Immortal Jellyfish
Honorable Mention for outstanding performance by Krisha Fairchild – Freeland
Spirit of Sidewalk Award – Suzi Quatro
Shorts
Best Narrative Short ($500) – Public Lot
Best Documentary Short ($500) – Conviction
Best Animated Short ($250) – If Anything Happens I Love You
Reel South SHORT Award ($1,000) – Coup d’Etat Math
Kathryn Tucker Windham Storytelling Award ($250) – Tantalization
Shorts Programmers’ Award ($250) – Good Guy With A Gun
Shorts Honorable Mention – Dafa Metti
Shorts Honorable Mention – Mizuko
Sidewrite Screenplay Competition Awards
Best Alabama Screenplay ($250) – “The Sympathetic Martian” by Scott Turner and Jim Torres
Best Short Screenplay ($250) – “Lab Partners” by Tommy Britt
Best Feature Screenplay ($500) – “Riding Shotgun” by Nafi Ayvaci
AUDIENCE AWARDS
Best Narrative Feature($250)– The Killing Of Kenneth Chamberlain
Best Documentary Feature ($250)- Transhood
Best Narrative Short ($150)– Lunar Powers
Best Documentary Short ($150) – Invasion: The Unist’ot’en’s Fight for Sovereignty
Best Alabama Film($250)– Jasper Mall
Best Black Lens Film($250)– After Selma
Best SHOUT Film($250)– A Short Story About the Life of Elise