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* Audience Choice Documentary: ''The Trials of Darryl Hunt''
* Audience Choice Documentary: ''The Trials of Darryl Hunt''
* Audience Choice Short: ''Thornton Dial''
* Audience Choice Short: ''Thornton Dial''
* Audience Choice Alabama Short: ''Piece of Cake''
* Audience Choice Alabama Short: ''[[Piece of Cake]]''


==References==
==References==

Revision as of 15:36, 8 November 2007

The 2006 Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival, held on September 22-24, was the 8th in the annual series. It was the last festival to be presided over by co-founding director Erik Jambor, who resigned in November 2006.

Advance weekend passes were $25. The festival jury included Alison Dickey, Brian Gordon, Gabriel Wardell, Eric Campos, Skizz Cyzyk, Peter Gilbert, Alison Bagnall, Kent Osborne, and Steve Montal. There were 10 narrative features and 9 documentary features in competition:

Narrative features

  • The Big Bad Swim, Ishai Setton, director
  • Chalk, Mike Akel, director
  • Firefly, Pete Marcy, director
  • The Guatemalan Handshake, Todd Rohal, director
  • In Memorium, Amanda Gusack, director
  • Just Like the Son, Morgan J. Freeman, director
  • LOL, Joseph Swanberg, director
  • Puzzlehead, James Bai, director
  • Somebodies, Hadjii, director
  • We Go Way Back, Lynn Shelton, director

Documentary features

  • 10 MPH, Hunter Weeks, director
  • Awake, My Soul: The Story of the Sacred Harp, Matt & Erica Hinton, directors
  • Class Act, Sara Sackner, director
  • Danielson: A Family Movie, J. L. Aronson, director
  • Darkon, Andrew Neel & Luke Meyer, directors
  • Jam, Hunter Weeks, director
  • Muskrat Lovely, Amy Nicholson, director
  • The Trials of Darryl Hunt, Ricki Stern & Annie Sundberg, directors
  • Time and Tide, Julie Bayer & Josh Salzman, directors

Awards

  • Best Feature: LOL
  • Best Documentary, feature length: The Trials of Darryl Hunt
  • Best Short Documentary: Geocaching
  • Best Alabama Documentary: She's a Lady
  • Best Alabama Film: Gouash
  • Best Short: Vacationland
  • Best Student Film: Our Man in Nirvana
  • Best Student Documentary: Yard Sale
  • Best Animated Film: Copenhagen Cycles
  • Kathryn Tucker Windham Storytelling Award: Binta and the Great Idea
  • Audience Choice Award: Heavens Fall
  • Audience Choice Documentary: The Trials of Darryl Hunt
  • Audience Choice Short: Thornton Dial
  • Audience Choice Alabama Short: Piece of Cake

References

  • Carlton, Bob (December 1, 2006) "Sidewalk film festival founding director resigns." Birmingham News.

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