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.
Truth is definitely stranger than fiction. Case in point, this endlessly fascinating documentary. In the late 1990s, a young man named JT LeRoy became a literary sensation, writing about his tragic life of being homeless and turning tricks for his hustler mother. Celebrities clamored to meet him. JT’s stories, however, were really the fictional work of Brooklyn artist Laura Albert. The physical manifestation of JT, the one hobnobbing with Bono, Winona Ryder and Tom Waits, was actually Laura’s sister-in-law Savannah Knoop disguised as a man. And then, things really get weird. - Charlie Sanders
