Welcome to the 15th Annual Sidewalk Film Festival, we are so glad you are here and hope this interactive schedule makes it easy for you to navigate this year’s event. Read on for all the details about the 2013 line-up of films, panels, and parties. Plus, you can learn about our special guests, sponsors and more.
*Please note that specifics about each SHORTS are available by viewing the decription for a selected Shorts Block.
A wild boy is found in the woods by a solitary hunter and brought back to civilization. Alienated by a strange new environment, the boy tries to adapt by using the same strategies that kept him safe in the forest.
2. Colored
Director: Ian Bondurant
Country of Origin: USA
Genre: Animated Short
This film is an animated short about two oddly-animated friends and another oddly-animated character who is only admitted into the group by discovering his unique identity. The two characters learn acceptance of their new friend when he helps them reach some of their own goals and learning the true value of money.
3. The Darkroom
Director: Cheri Gaulke
Country of Origin: USA
Genre: Teen Filmmaker
High school darkroom detritus and silver gelatin cast-offs embark into an alchemical and surreal journey. All photos and animation were created by high-school students and senior Wiley Webb/DJ extraordinaire created the dark and stirring musical score.
4. A Tangled Tale
Director: Corrie Francis Parks
Country of Origin: USA
Genre: Animated Short
In this unusual romance, hand-tinted sand, becomes a metaphor for two souls as they join and separate. With a radical new approach to a traditional technique, animator Corrie Francis Parks brings vibrant color to the watery underworld in this philosophical tale of entangling attraction.
5. The Event
Director: Julia Pott
Country of Origin: United Kingdom and USA
Genre: Animated Short
Love and a severed foot, at the end of the world.
6. Illusions De Grandeur
Director: Megan Fowler
Country of Origin: USA
Genre: Animated Short
Mangus the not-so magnificent magician has a grand idea for the perfect magic trick to impress the entire village. But what happens behind the curtain? A struggling performer learns a valuable lesson in this Dr. Caligari inspired love story.
7. Places Where We Lived
Director: Bernardo Britto
Country of Origin: USA
Genre: Animated Short
A man wakes up with a terrible feeling. His parents are selling his childhood home. A goodbye/love letter to Florida.
8. Sticks and Birthstones
Director: April Simmons
Invisible bodies may become visible in the dark - apparitions, auditory illusions, spectres, phantoms, are all intangible, none of them, for instance, could be photographed.
9. Marcel, King of Tervuren
Director: Tom Schroeder
Country of Origin: USA
Genre: Animated Short
Marcel survives the bird flu, alcohol, sleeping pills and his son Max. Though blinded in one eye, he remains the King of Tervuren. Greek tragedy as acted out by Belgian roosters.
10. Light Me Up
Director: Ryan Walton, Derek Dolechek
Country of Origin: USA
Genre: Animated Short
Meet the Wattsons. They're spending some quality time together. In this short film, animation and live-action are combined to tell a story about a family of light bulbs.
11. Butler, Woman, Man
Director: Michael Langan
Country of Origin: France
Genre: Narrative Short
In a stately chateau somewhere in the Loire Valley, an elaborate masquerade unfolds as the inhabitants begin swapping roles with one another. A period exploration of gender, loops, role playing, and multiplicity of personae.
12. Animation Hotline
Director: Dustin Grella
Country of Origin: USA
Genre: Animated Short
Animation Hotline is a series of micro-animations that use crowd-sourced voicemail messages for content.
13. Olive
Director: Harriet-Lane Ngo
Country of Origin: USA
Genre: Animated Short
The medium this film is executed is with a combination of 2D and 3D software. Through the software called Toon Boom Animate Pro, the team was able to digitally draw, ink, and paint frame by frame. The 3D character was modeled, rigged, and animated in Maya and painted through Mari and Adobe Photoshop.
14. Oh Willy…
Director: Emma De Swaef, Marc Roels
Country of Origin: USA
Genre: Animated Short
Forced to return to his naturist roots, Willy bungles his way into noble savagery.
Saturday August 24, 2013 11:00am - 12:40pm CDT
Alabama Theatre1817 3rd Ave N, Birmingham, AL