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.
Using Sched.org as our primary scheduling tool, we are happy to offer four different ways to view this year’s lineup. By hovering your cursor over the "Schedule" tab below, you can take your pick of a Simple, Expanded, Grid, or By Venue view.
A Life in Waves Directed by Brett Whitcomb USA, Documentary, 74 minutes
Who came up with Coca-Cola’s signature popping and fizzing sound? Where did the Atari game system get its futuristic music? Delve into the audio sphere of electronic music pioneer Suzanne Ciani in A Life In Waves and experience the sound of imagination. Ciani’s career has been enormously successful from pop music to advertising to collaborations with synthesizer pioneers such as Don Buchla. Abandoning tradition, Ciani has forged her own way to attempt to “do something that no one else could do." - Charlie Sanders
