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.
The Other Kids Directed by Chris Brown USA, Narrative, 95 minutes
Six northern California high schoolers face the difficulties of coming of age in this remarkable narrative-documentary hybrid. Joe considers enlisting in the military, while undocumented Isaac stays off the grid; popular Sienna struggles with the divorce of her parents, while Kai’s self-loathing manifests in cutting. And loners Abby and Cricket finally find a connection in each other. This lightly improvised and beautifully observed film was shot using non-actors playing semi-fictionalized versions of themselves. - Corey Craft
