We’ve released the list of award winners from this year’s Sidewalk Film Festival. With over 1,600 submissions and 350 films shown, we had another record-breaking year here in Birmingham!
Check out the list of winners here.
Thanks to all our submitting and award-winning filmmakers. We couldn’t do our jobs without you!
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We’re happy to announce 6 more titles from our 2018 feature film line-up, including out SHOUT LGBTQ Closing Night Film, Mapplethorpe, from acclaimed director, Ondi Timoner.
Director: Ondi Timoner
Narrative / Run Time: 112 Minutes / USA
Director: Lisa Dapolito
Documentary / Run Time: 88 Minutes / USA
In her own words, comedienne Gilda Radner looks back and reflects on her life and career. Weaving together recently discovered audiotapes, interviews with her friends, rare home movies and diaries read by modern day comediennes (including Amy Poehler), Love Gilda offers a unique window into the honest and whimsical world of a beloved performer whose greatest role was sharing her story.
Director: Michael Tully
Narrative / Run Time: 86 Minutes / USA
An American artist’s obsession with a disturbing urban legend leads her to an investigation of the story’s origins at the crumbling estate of a reclusive painter in Ireland.
Director: Tim Wardle
Documentary / Run Time: 96 Minutes / USA
Three strangers are reunited by astonishing coincidence after being born identical triplets, separated at birth, and adopted by three different families. Their jaw-dropping, feel-good story instantly becomes a global sensation complete with fame and celebrity, however, the fairy-tale reunion sets in motion a series of events that unearth an unimaginable secret.
Director: Isabella Eklöf
Narrative / Run Time: 90 Minutes / Denmark/Netherlands/Sweden
Michael, a Danish gangster, takes his girlfriend, Sascha, and his extended criminal family on a luxury vacation in a fancy villa in gorgeous Bodrum, Turkey. Shopping, waterparks, barbecuing, and hardcore partying fill their days and nights. Having little regard for anything or anybody outside their world, they exist in a bubble of excess that is governed by Michael’s rules—and if the code is broken, they all know that violence will follow.
Director: RaMell Ross
Documentary / Run Time: 76 Minutes / USA
Composed of intimate and unencumbered moments of people in a community, Hale County This Morning, This Evening, allows the viewer an emotive impression of the Historic South – trumpeting the beauty of life and consequences of the social construction of race, while simultaneously a testament to dreaming – despite the odds.
Screening dates, times and venues for these three films are not known at this time. That information, along with premium single tickets, will be available July 24th when we announce our full Festival schedule.
We get great photos every year from our team of photo and video volunteers. This year, we’re looking to expand that team! Photos and videos taken will be used for our social media channels, our website, and for other promotional purposes as needed. Local folks only, please! Photo and video volunteers will receive perks just like regular festival volunteers do. If interested, please fill out and email our Photographer Interest Form and Photography Release form to [email protected] by July 1. Please also include some links to your previous work!
Featured Image by Joe De Sciose.
Sidewalk Film Festival is thrilled to announce the opening of the call for entries for our 20th year. Click here to submit your film! Sidewalk Film Festival celebrates our 20th anniversary August 20th-26th, 2018 in Birmingham, Alabama’s historic theatre district.
Submissions are now open in all categories, including Narrative Features, Narrative Shorts, Documentary Features, Documentary Shorts, Music Videos, Episodic Content, Teen Filmmaker, and Family Film Festival. Sidewalk is proud to partner exclusively with FilmFreeway for our 2018 call for entries.
Sidewalk actively strives to bring a variety of film to its audience. To that end, we are proud to highlight the historical and present-day fight for civil rights in our Life & Liberty track, films by and about African-American people in our Black Lens track, LGBTQ filmmakers and content with our SHOUT track, and family-friendly programming with our Family Festival track. Our programming also highlights both student and Alabama-based filmmakers.
Sidewalk is also pleased to announce the return of our Sidewrite screenwriting competition! New for this year, we are now accepting both short and feature length screenplay submissions. Also new this year is the option to receive feedback for your screenplay submission from our Sidewrite jury.
More information about our call for entries, including submission requirements, eligibility, and prizes, can be found on our FilmFreeway page.
