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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. 

This schedule is subject to change.
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Tim Ritter

315 Films
Director/Producer
Orlando, FL
Websitetestamentfilm.com
After a successful decade-long career in print journalism that culminated with regular work for The Associated Press, Tim Ritter used Robert Rodriguez's Rebel Without a Crew as a starting point to develop his own hyper-efficient yet ambitious strategy toward micro budget filmmaking.

Now with a string of innovative and award-winning short films behind him, along with a role in starting the Fort Myers Film Festival and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Entrepreneurial Digital Cinema from the University of Central Florida, Ritter has turned his attention to pushing limits with feature-length filmmaking. His first two features, Moment of Truth and Testament, both due out in 2017, focus on issues of morality and purpose in narratives that blend a deep focus on complex characters with storytelling ambition that belies the films' tiny budgets.