The 18th Annual Sidewalk Film Festival August 26-28
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.
Paul (Ethan Hawke) stops in tiny Denton enroute to Mexico. While in town the resident bully, Gilly (James Ransone), picks a fight with him, one that, despite Gilly’s self confidence, he's not able to win. Paul hightails it, but the humiliating run-in sparks a frenzy of machismo and furor. Embarrassed, Gilly sets out with his apprehensive gang in search of rage-filled revenge and man, things really, really don’t go the way he planned.
With memorable performances from the entire cast, including Taissa Farmiga and John Travolta (one that reminds you that he is, indeed, a stellar actor), In A Valley Of Violence is a darkly humorous, action-packed, entertaining, smartly self-aware and ultimately super fun, genre explosion of a film... plus there’s an adorable dog.
In the spirit of Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez and with an obvious deep and broad knowledge of the works of John Ford and Sam Peckinpah, Director Ti West (an auteur in his own right) delivers a smart well-crafted contribution to the Western natatorium, proving, for one, that he can skillfully work outside of the horror genre. I think it’s safe to say that Sidewalk has never opened the festival with a Western, perhaps that’s because we’ve never loved one in quite the way we do In A Valley Of Violence.