2016 Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival

The 2016 Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival, held on August 26-28, 2016 was the 18th in the annual series. In all, about 250 films were screened during the festival, including full-length narrative and documentary features and numerous short films. Seven venues were used for the festival, including, for the first time, the newly-restored Lyric Theatre.

The opening night feature, In a Valley of Violence, was screened at the Alabama Theatre. Award-winners included Gip, a documentary about Bessemer grave digger and juke-joint owner Gip Gipson, and First Lady of the Revolution, a documentary about Henrietta Boggs, who was a student at Birmingham-Southern College when she married José Figueres Ferrer, then head of Costa Rica's Social Democratic Party and president of the country in 1948-1949.

Awards

• Jury awards:
  • Jambor-Franklin Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature ($1000): Donald Cried
  • Kathryn Tucker Windham Storyteller Award ($1000): Pickle
  • Best Documentary Feature ($1000): Syl Johnson: Any Way the Wind Blows (Honorable mention to Jackson)
  • Best Narrative Short ($500): A Film by Vera Vaughn
  • Honorable Mention: First Lady of the Revolution
  • Honorable Mention for Narrative Filmmaking: Red Folder
  • Honorable Mention for Comedy: Nigel & Oscar vs. Sasquatch
  • Honorable Mention for Imagination: Monty and the Runaway Furnace
  • Best Documentary Short ($500): Frame 394
  • Best Family/Kids Film: Kedi
  • Special Jury Award Short: The Champion and A House Without Snakes
  • Sidewalk Programmers Award ($500): The Master Cleanse (Honorable mention to Cheerleader)
  • Alan Hunter Best Alabama Film ($500): Gip
  • Best Student Film ($500): The Mink Catcher
  • Clint Howard Character Actor Award: Celia Rowlson-Hall, for Ma
  • Seed & Spark Award for Best Crowdfunded Short ($250):
  • Best SHOUT Narrative Feature ($500): Teenage Cocktail
  • Best SHOUT Documentary Feature ($500): Kiki
  • Best SHOUT Short ($500): Sign
  • SHOUT Programmers Award ($250): Slash (Honorable mention to Ma)
  • SHOUT Special Mention: Clare Cooney in Bird of Prey
  • SHOUT Special Mention (Best Alabama LGBTQ Film): [Ending the Silence]]
• Audience awards
  • Best Narrative Feature ($250): Service to Man
  • Best Documentary Feature ($250): Gip
  • Best Alabama Film ($250): First Lady of the Revolution
  • Best Narrative Short ($150): Madame Black
  • Best Documentary Short ($150) Pickle
  • Best SHOUT Narrative Feature ($250): Miles
  • Best SHOUT Documentary Feature ($250): Suited
  • Best SHOUT Short ($250): The Escape Hatch

References

• Carlton, Bob (August 28, 2016) "Sidewalk Film Festival announces 2016 winners; here's the list." The Birmingham News

External links

• Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival website