By Rachel Morgan, Creative Director You may know this year marks the 25th annual Sidewalk Film Festival. But you may not know our Shout LGBTQ+ film festival has been around for 18 years now! The Shout LGBTQ+ lineup is stellar this year, so you can’t
Five Black Lens Features That Celebrate Storytellers By T. Marie King Black Lens programming has proven to be an extraordinary platform for storytellers, enabling them to not only showcase their diverse experiences but also unleash the full power of their imaginations. As Sidewalk Film Festival
Every year at Sidewalk, we’re thrilled to bring you some of the most exciting and thought-provoking documentary features we can find — and this 25th year is no exception, as we have a ton of new films that documentary fans are going to want to
With hundreds of films to see at the 25th annual Sidewalk Film Festival it might be hard to decide which ones to put on your festival schedule. Luckily, I am a features programmer and can help! By Charlie Brown Sanders III, features programmer Opening Night
By T. Marie King, lead shorts programmer Get ready for the extraordinary cinematic experience of the 2023 Sidewalk Film Festival’s shorts programming. As we celebrate our 25th anniversary, we are going all out to bring you the best of short-form cinema. This year we’ve had a
Today we were so excited to announce the lineup of the 25th annual Sidewalk Film Festival, presented by Regions Bank. As we gear up for this milestone edition of the festival, the challenge of programming a lineup from a pool of hundreds of short and
2021 Sundance Film Festival Will Meet Audiences Where They Are Festival Offers Robust Online Platform and Announces Screening Partnerships with Independent Cinemas and Cultural Organizations PARK CITY, UTAH — The nonprofit Sundance Institute today unveiled plans for the seven-day 2021 Sundance Film Festival, offered digitally via a
While there are no known cases of COVID-19 at Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema or in our region, out of caution and, in following the lead of our peers across the independent cinema/art-house community, Sidewalk Cinema will be closing Thursday, March 12 with a target
Our priority at the Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema is the health and safety of our patrons and employees. While the current risk level of COVID-19 (coronavirus) in Birmingham is low, we wanted to share the steps we’re taking here at Sidewalk — and the
We are truly thrilled to announce our 1st Annual 13 Days of Halloween Series at the Sidewalk Cinema – we’ll be screening some Halloween classics and every genre of horror from supernatural to slasher. Plus, we’ll have a spooky photo booth, Halloween decor and lots of
