Special Events

All we can tell you is that it's a movie and it's bad. Join us for our monthly celebration of bad cinema. Surprises + Fun and it's free! Grab a drink at our bar, you're going to need it. *This event is free and first come, first served. Ticket reservations are strongly recommended.*

College students! Bring your IDs and join us for discounted screenings and concessions specials on the first Thursday of every month. Popcorn club members get in free!

Every third Thursday of the month, join us at the Sidewalk Cinema for Networking Nights from 5-7pm and then Monthly Movie Trivia from 8-10pm. Network, pitch ideas, school your contemporaries with movie trivia, and enjoy some drinks. We'll see you there!

Each month join us in the lobby to network with other filmmakers, local crew, industry professionals, and creatives. Come out, grab a drink, and network! Stick around afterward for Sidewalk's Monthly Movie Trivia at 8pm.

Witness ODESZA’s live show as an immersive concert film. With jaw-dropping visuals and unreleased behind-the-scenes footage, see the band as you’ve never seen before. For the first time ever, witness the awe-inspiring ODESZA live show as an immersive concert film. With jaw-dropping visuals and a captivating set list of fan favorites as well as unreleased remixes, see one of electronic music’s biggest acts as you’ve never seen them before. The Last Goodbye Cinematic Experience provides a look behind-the-curtain into the process of creating ODESZA’s wildly successful return to the touring stage. Since they started making music in the basement of a college house, Harrison & Clay (ODESZA) have bucked industry trends and built a creative and dedicated production team of longtime close friends. Through personal interviews with the band, their fans, and members of their creative team, the film provides an entertaining and heartfelt look at the connection between the band and their fans, how life experiences shaped the creation of their latest album, and how ODESZA grew from small-town aspiring musicians to a four-time Grammy Award-nominated, major festival headlining icon.

In this Salon, Craig Brandwein will go over the basics of music licensing for Film and TV. Topics will include copyright, securing music, cue sheets, contracts & agreements, and more! Then Craig will answer YOUR questions.

"“Movies will make you famous; Television will make you rich; But theatre will make you good.” -- Terrance Mann Join professional actor Rachel Burttram for a candid conversation about working as a full-time actor both on the stage and screen. As a 25 year veteran of the industry, Rachel will share her actor's perspective about the differences in the theatre, TV, and film industries. We will talk about what is similar and what is REALLY different about being in front of a camera and a live audience. Let's talk about the requirements, the challenges and the joys for actors -- be it on stage & screen. Q & A to follow.

Join us for Monthly Skate Night at Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema. A monthly celebration of skate videos and culture on the big screen. Bring your favorite skate stories and come embrace one of independent cinemas hidden gems, skate videos!

Join Burdock Book Collective, the Birmingham Civil Rights National Monument, and the National Parks Conservation Association for the first event in our series, Locked Up & Locked Out: Civil Rights, Social Justice and the Alabama Prison System, which will feature a screening of Slavery by Another Name, followed by a brief discussion led by Dr. Martha Bouyer. By beginning our event series about the legacy of incarceration and convict leasing in Alabama, we hope to expose the roots of the modern prison system and many of its ills, provoke deep thought and discussion about the impacts of the prison system on our society, and lay the foundation for the rest of our project series. In the following two events, we will bring people together to hear from those directly impacted by the current justice system and discuss ways to reduce and repair harms, all while asking, “what does it mean to be free?”