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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.

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Saturday, August 25
 

10:05am CDT

When Jeff Tried to Save the World sponsored by Goodwyn, Mills, & Cawood
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Narrative
Directed By Kendall Goldberg
Run Time: 92 Mins
USA

They’re not going to close Winky’s World if Jeff (Jon Heder) has anything to say about it! When word gets out about the impending sale of beloved, aging bowling alley, Winky’s World, slacker manager Jeff springs into action to save the day. Calling on the nostalgia of the good old days, when Winky’s World was in its
prime, Jeff manages to heroically rally everyone together to try and keep things afloat, but will his plan work or is it simply time to move on?

- Michael Shelton

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Saturday August 25, 2018 10:05am - 11:37am CDT
Steiner Auditorium at the Birmingham Museum of Art 2000 Reverend Abraham Woods Boulevard, Birmingham, Alabama 35203
  Narrative Feature

12:30pm CDT

306 Hollywood sponsored by Four Corners Gallery
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Documentary
Directed By Elan Bogarín, Jonathan Bogarín
Run Time 94 Minutes
U.S.A./Hungary

What is a human life made of? Among an endless plethora of objects, both fantastical and benign, emerges a portrait of the 20th century, embodied in a bold, matriarchal Jewish household. A brother and sister turn their late grandmother’s house into an archaeological excavation site. In so doing, they create a stylized arrangement of shapes and colors, a ghost story of American culture, as well as a meditation on the authorship and purpose of archives.

- Sophie Gertrude Strohmeier

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Four Corners Custom Framing

Four Corners Gallery was established in 1999 and provides art, custom framing, restoration, and installation for both residential and commercial clients. We are a team of highly qualified designers and craftspeople that truly love what we do. As artists, we offer numerous suggestions... Read More →


Saturday August 25, 2018 12:30pm - 1:52pm CDT
Steiner Auditorium at the Birmingham Museum of Art 2000 Reverend Abraham Woods Boulevard, Birmingham, Alabama 35203
  Documentary Feature

2:45pm CDT

Chained for Life
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Narrative
Directed By Aaron Schimberg
Run Time 91 Minutes
USA

On the set of a sleazy B-movie horror film, the young lead actress grows closer to a co-star with facially disfiguring neurofibromatosis. But is her attraction part of her performance? And where does the performance end and reality begin? What follows is a complicated examination of how films have traditionally treated the physically disabled or deformed, drawing from Hollywood’s exploitative past to weave a dizzying meta-narrative.

- Corey Craft
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Saturday August 25, 2018 2:45pm - 4:15pm CDT
Steiner Auditorium at the Birmingham Museum of Art 2000 Reverend Abraham Woods Boulevard, Birmingham, Alabama 35203
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5:00pm CDT

Little Music Manchild: The Malik Kofi Story
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dir. Malena Cunningham Anderson

Little Music Manchild: The Malik Kofi Story is an up-coming documentary that is touching, inspiring, and capturing national attention. Three-time EMMY winner, writer and producer, Malena Cunningham Anderson of Newslady Productions follows Malik Kofi, the astounding 11-year-old prodigy, Birmingham native, musician, scholar, public speaker, and future leader as he uses his musical skills to grab attention in the world of classical music.

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Saturday August 25, 2018 5:00pm - 5:34pm CDT
Steiner Auditorium at the Birmingham Museum of Art 2000 Reverend Abraham Woods Boulevard, Birmingham, Alabama 35203
  Documentary Feature

6:35pm CDT

The Unicorn
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Narrative
Directed By Robert Schwartzman
Run Time 78 Minutes
USA

In an effort to break out of a perceived malaise within their relationship, a stagnantly engaged couple spend an evening searching for a third partner to willingly participate in an impromptu threesome. A far more clever and humorous story about the dynamics of relationships than one might guess from the basic description here, the risqué concept ends up delivering a funny and charmingly sweet character-driven adventure.

- Sean Brown

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Saturday August 25, 2018 6:35pm - 7:53pm CDT
Steiner Auditorium at the Birmingham Museum of Art 2000 Reverend Abraham Woods Boulevard, Birmingham, Alabama 35203
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8:40pm CDT

Wild Nights With Emily sponsored by Fig Street Marketing Group
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Directed by Madeleine Olnek
USA | 84 Minutes
Saturday | 8:40 PM
Museum of Art
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Madeleine Olnek’s portrait of Emily Dickinson (Molly Shannon) casts light on the poet’s intense romance with women and words, and in doing so subverts the notions of biography and history entire. The result is a sexy, breathless, absurdist, and very cinematic literary romp. Interpretation alters our perception, turning seemingly dusty poetry into unspeakable sexual innuendo. “I taste a liquor never brewed –”, Dickinson whispers to her lover Susan – affirming that her lines are truly about that.

- Sophie Gertrude Strohmeier
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Saturday August 25, 2018 8:40pm - 10:04pm CDT
Steiner Auditorium at the Birmingham Museum of Art 2000 Reverend Abraham Woods Boulevard, Birmingham, Alabama 35203
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Sunday, August 26
 

10:00am CDT

People's Republic of Desire
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Documentary
Directed By Hao Wu
Run Time 95 Minutes
China

In contemporary China, the meteoric rise in popularity of live-streaming webcam celebrities has created a new economy of Internet idols and their devoted patrons. Performers with little more than a basic computer setup can find instant fame — and earn up to $200,000 a year in tips from lonely, addicted fans seeking validation from their favorite hosts. Provocative, strange, and bleak, this documentary details a real-life dystopia of ostentatious wealth and digital alienation.

- Corey Craft
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Sunday August 26, 2018 10:00am - 11:35am CDT
Steiner Auditorium at the Birmingham Museum of Art 2000 Reverend Abraham Woods Boulevard, Birmingham, Alabama 35203
  Documentary Feature

12:20pm CDT

Icepick to the Moon sponsored by Green Bucket Press
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Documentary
Directed By Skizz Cyzyk
Run Time: 104 Minutes
USA
Alabama

Icepick to the Moon tells the story of the Raudelunas, an artist’s collective started in the 1970s in Tuscaloosa, Alabama and one of their most famous members, the Reverend Fred Lane. Lane came to prominence in the 1980s when influential label Shimmy Disc re-released two of his albums. Twenty years in the making, the film uncovers Fred Lane’s true identity and includes a much- anticipated Raudelunas reunion revue.

- Tom Richardson

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Sunday August 26, 2018 12:20pm - 2:04pm CDT
Steiner Auditorium at the Birmingham Museum of Art 2000 Reverend Abraham Woods Boulevard, Birmingham, Alabama 35203
  Documentary Feature

2:50pm CDT

Southern Pride
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Documentary
Directed By Malcolm Ingram
Run Time 88 Minutes
Canada
SHOUT

From the director of SMALL TOWN GAY BAR, SOUTHERN PRIDE depicts the chaotic months leading up to the first Pride celebrations of two Southern towns. Combine the uncertainty of 2016 and the mindset of small town Mississippi, and you'll begin to understand this documentary's intense climate. Nationwide, LGBTQ communities are fighting for their rights, this stellar film focuses on two gay bar owners as they try to do more and show a little pride through it all.

- Charlie Bice
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Sunday August 26, 2018 2:50pm - 4:18pm CDT
Steiner Auditorium at the Birmingham Museum of Art 2000 Reverend Abraham Woods Boulevard, Birmingham, Alabama 35203
  Documentary Feature

5:05pm CDT

Madeline's Madeline
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Directed By Josephine Decker
Run Time 93 Minutes
USA

From the start MADELINE’S MADELINE promises the audience a never before seen cinematic experience. With flashing shallow depth of field scenes, including POV vantage points of cats and turtles, the cast and plot are one and the same. Set amongst a theater company’s latest, all-inclusive, collaborative offering, MADELINE’S MADELINE is a jarring cinematic masterpiece. The film is a wholly original exploration of what happens when the intersection of self-delusion and utter brilliance collide.

- Charlie Sanders

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Sunday August 26, 2018 5:05pm - 6:38pm CDT
Steiner Auditorium at the Birmingham Museum of Art 2000 Reverend Abraham Woods Boulevard, Birmingham, Alabama 35203
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7:25pm CDT

Man Made
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Documentary
Directed By T Cooper
Run Time 93 Minutes
USA
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Life & Liberty

Welcome to the world of competitive bodybuilding for transgender men, where a resilient community competes, builds each other up, and works towards self-actualization. We follow four trans men in their challenging journeys to competition day; seeing how their relationships, self-image, and bodies change as they work towards their goals. MAN MADE is truly a moving look into this competitive, yet nurturing and accepting world.

- Kate Michel

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First Church Birmingham

We are First Church, an Open Place for ALL to Worship, Grow, and Serve, and there is a valuable place for you in our community of faith.First Church Birmingham proudly sponsors and hosts the Life & Liberty sidebar at Sidewalk Film Festival.
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Sunday August 26, 2018 7:25pm - 8:58pm CDT
Steiner Auditorium at the Birmingham Museum of Art 2000 Reverend Abraham Woods Boulevard, Birmingham, Alabama 35203
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