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.
It’s not often that a film can be described as both a sad comedy and one of the feel- good movies of the year, but such is the case with Little Sister, co-written by Director Zach Clark and producer/actor Melodie Sisk, a familiar face in the Birmingham film community. Set in the not-so- distant heady days of the 2008 Obama campaign, Little Sister follows the journey of Colleen Lunsford (Addison Timlin), a young nun granted a brief leave from her convent to visit her family still living in her childhood home in Asheville, North Carolina. Colleen hasn’t seen or spoken to her parents in years, having chosen a self-imposed exile, until she receives a simple message from her mother Joani (Ally Sheedy), “your brother is home”. With this cast of characters, a Goth nun, a war-torn, disillusioned and disfigured recluse and perpetually stoned parents, the film sounds like it would be completely demented, and it is, in the kindest and most wonderful way possible. Little Sister is Zach Clark, Melodie Sisk and cinematographer/producer Daryl Pittman’s fourth feature, all four have screened at the Sidewalk Film Festival. Funny, sad, gracious, occasionally mysterious and featuring a Gwar dance number, at its heart Little Sister is a story about family. We are honored to showcase Little Sister as the 2016 Sidewalk Film Festival closing night film. - Charlie Sanders
