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.
The Alabama Theatre is sponsored by the Greater Birmingham Convention & Visitors Bureau.
This screening is sponsored by Philip Woods Home Builder Inc.
“To be a person is to be a mask, and you never know who you’re talking to behind that mask,”preaches Michel, the Speedoclad leader of the Buddhafield cult. Few learn this lesson better than disillusioned exmember Will Allen, who directed this unsettling documentary about his former idol. Once the group’s videographer, Allen, armed with 22 years of footage, reveals how Michel, a failed porn star with an unrecognizable accent, cons 150 average Americans to abandon their jobs, families, and homes to worship him. Thoroughly absorbing, it doesn’t get stranger than this. - Charlie Sanders
