NAME OF FESTIVAL: Sidewalk Film Festival
SINCE: 1998
WHERE: Birmingham, Alabama
ABOUT THE FESTIVAL
Sidewalk Film Festival showcases the work of more than 250 filmmakers and welcomes 15,000 film lovers to Birmingham annually. Since its debut in 1998, filmmakers from across the country and around the world have come to Birmingham to screen their work at Sidewalk and have been thrilled to discover enthusiastic crowds eager to devour new independent cinema.
Sidewalk Film Festival
This year’s Opening Night film of Sidewalk Film Festivalwill be Bradford Thomason and Brett Whitcomb’s documentary Butterfly in the Sky and Margaret Brown’s documentary Descendant, winner of a Special Jury Prize at Sundance, will be the Closing Night film.
The 23rd edition of Sidewalk Film Festival will take place August 23-29, 2021, with Jeff Daniels’ Television Event as the Opening Night film.
Sidewalk Film Festival announced the 2020 winners. The Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature to Transhood directed by Sharon Liese.
Sidewalk Film Festival announced the complete lineup of 163 films for this year’s All Drive-in Edition of the Birmingham-based festival.
The 2020 drive-in edition of the Sidewalk Film Festival added ten new titles to the lineup taking place August 24-30 in Leeds, Alabama
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The coronavirus is having a devastating impact on film festivals. San Francisco and RiverRun International Film Festivals have canceled.
Wide Tide: The Legend of Culebra, directed by Theo Love, will open the 20th Annual Sidewalk Film Festival, on Friday, August 24 at the beautiful Alabama Theatre.
The South Eastern premiere of Ti West’s The Innkeepers will serve as the Opening Night Film of the 2011 Sidewalk Film Festival and will screen at the beautiful 2,200 seat Alabama Theatre. Described as one of the most exciting and original filmmakers on the independent scene today, Ti West (The Roost, Trigger Man and The House of the Devil) directs, edits and co-produces his original screenplay about two employees of a soon-to-be-closed hotel, who get […]