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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.

7:00pm CDT

4 Little Girls: We Reflect. We Respond. sponsored by Baker Donelson Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz

4 Little Girls: We Reflect. We Respond. will be a citywide simultaneous screening and discussion of Spike Lee’s critically-acclaimed documentary film, 4 Little Girls. The Sidewalk Film Festival, in conjunction with the City of Birmingham’s 50 Years Forward campaign, is coordinating this unique and meaningful event.

The screenings are scheduled to take place on Wednesday, August 21 at 7:00 pm. Birmingham area places of worship of all religions and denominations are encouraged to serve as host venues.

All participating places of worship will screen the film and hold a roundtable discussion immediately afterwards. Sidewalk will provide each participating host venue with a kit containing artwork/templates to be used for marketing the event, an event agenda and discussion guide, and a copy of the film (with license). There will be no cost for participating host venues, but each venue will be required to provide its own audio/visual equipment.

Admission to this event will be FREE. Donations will be collected to benefit the nonprofit Four Spirits Inc., which plans to erect a monument in memory of the four girls who were killed in the church bombing.

Wednesday August 21, 2013 7:00pm - 10:00pm CDT
Multiple Venues Across the Metro Area

Documentary Feature

Tags Life & Liberty

8:00pm CDT

Lil Bub & Friendz/Opening Night sponsored by Regions Bank

Limited Capacity seats available

Lil Bub & Friendz, the doc about the cutest toothless, deformed kitty in the known universe (and potentially beyond) also features some of your favorite feline meme generators — Grumpy Cat, Nyan Cat and Keyboard Cat — and Bub’s adorkable owner Mike Bridavsky.

Lil Bub is a tabby riddled with deformities, from misshapen leg bones to a perpetual toothless overbite that makes drool prevention impossible. Her tongue hangs out. Her bug-eyes engulf her forehead and give her a look of unwavering surprise. In other words, she’s adorable. And she’s unbelievably famous.

Starring Lil Bub and Bub’s owner, Mike Bridavsky, along with Grumpy Cat, Nyan Cat, Keyboard Cat, and meme-manager supreme Ben Lashes, the movie follows the life and times of Bub and examines the internet cat phenomenon with an amazing soundtrack that features Spiritualized, Vernon Elliott, Mort Garson, Steve Reich, and Integrity.

For more information about Lil Bub visit www.lilbub.com

Friday August 23, 2013 8:00pm - 9:30pm CDT
Alabama Theatre 1817 3rd Ave N, Birmingham, AL ‎

Documentary Feature

11:00am CDT

Zipper

Limited Capacity seats available

A film about greed, politics, land use and public policy, Zipper tells the story behind the battle over an American cultural icon. Small-time ride operator, Eddie Miranda, proudly runs a 38-year-old carnival contraption called the Zipper in the heart of Coney Island’s gritty amusement district. When his rented lot is snatched up by an opportunistic real estate mogul, Eddie and his ride become casualties of a power struggle between the developer and the City of New York over the future of the “People’s Playground.’’ Be it an affront to history or just the path of progress, the spirit of Coney Island is at stake. In a market-driven world where growth often trumps preservation, the Zipper may be only the beginning of what is lost.
To view the trailer, click the following link: http://vimeo.com/46298486

**This film is screening with the short film Unsettlement. In 2003, Anniston, Alabama received a $700 million toxic waste settlement. Can money fix 40 years of contamination?

Saturday August 24, 2013 11:00am - 12:16pm CDT
ASFA Black Box 1800 Reverend Abraham Woods Jr Blvd, Birmingham, AL ‎

Documentary Feature

Event Type Film

11:00am CDT

Breaking Through

Limited Capacity seats available

Breaking Through highlights openly LGBT elected officials at all levels, from the first openly gay US Senator, Tammy Baldwin, and Houston Mayor Annise Parker to the first transgendered judge, a Dallas County lesbian, Latina sheriff and a young African American Councilman who grew up homeless.
Though featuring politicians, it isn't about politics: it's about people who feel fear and shame and yearn to live meaningful lives amidst anti-gay messages. They reveal how they broke through barriers internally - daring to believe something different than what they were told - and then externally as they pursued and achieved the future they envisioned. Showing what is possible, they give hope to struggling people from all backgrounds and walks of life.
To view the trailer, click the following link: www.BreakingThroughMovie.com

Saturday August 24, 2013 11:00am - 12:23pm CDT
ASFA Lecture Hall 1800 Reverend Abraham Woods Jr Blvd, Birmingham, AL ‎

Documentary Feature

Event Type Film
Tags Life & Liberty, Shout

11:00am CDT

Eye on the Sixties

Limited Capacity seats available

Eye on the Sixties is a visually and emotionally stylistic essay on the art and craft of photojournalism. It echoes the belief that the human abilities to visualize and to care are the best creative allies. It casts a fresh eye on a dramatic decade through the example of one man's journey from the Peace Corps in 1961, to the emotionally powerful March On Washington-- to JFK, Dylan at Newport, the Beatles first concert in America, LIFE magazine essays with Barbara Walters, Arthur Ashe, Robert F. Kennedy, Judy Collins, and the inevitable closing of the decade at Woodstock. The film touches upon the creative impulse, the sense of free-spirit, and the beginnings of old age. The film travels with Scherman to the recent 50th Anniversary of the creation of The Peace Corps in Washington, D.C., to the site of the 1963 Newport Folk Festival, to the the October chilled air where the Woodstock Festival was held, and to the windswept hills of Truro, Massachusetts on Cape Cod where Scherman moves today in a kind of peace, laced with humor, hope, and reality. The film concludes on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, with Scherman standing out in a crowd of ubiquitous amateur photographers, so fully aware yet partly invisible, armed with his camera, with one eye on the past and one on the future, and offering up some final encouraging words of wisdom to those who carry within the hope to one day express themselves. To view the trailer, click the following link: http://vimeo.com/61986544

Saturday August 24, 2013 11:00am - 12:30pm CDT
ASFA Dorothy Jemison Day Theater 1800 Reverend Abraham Woods Jr Blvd, Birmingham, AL ‎

Documentary Feature

Event Type Film
Tags Alabama Film Block, Life & Liberty

1:00pm CDT

Remote Area Medical

Limited Capacity seats available

A debate over health care has been raging nationwide, but what’s been lost in the discussion of mandates, payers, pre-existing conditions and deficits are the American citizens who live day after day, year after year without solutions for their most basic needs, afraid of injury and suffering through illness because for them there is no alternative. Remote Area Medical will document the annual three-day “pop-up” medical clinic put on by the non-profit Remote Area Medical (RAM) in the NASCAR speedway in Bristol, TN.
The Remote Area Medical Volunteer Corps provides free medical, dental and eye care to people in remote areas of the United States and around the world. Founded in 1985, RAM is a publicly supported all-volunteer charitable organization. It was begun as an organization intended to bring quality health care to South America, but after realizing there is actually a greater need in our own country, RAM now does sixty percent of its work in the United Sates.
Instead of a film about policy, about which system is better, would cover more, or cost less, Remote Area Medical is a film about people, about a proud Appalachian community banding together to try and provide some relief for friends and neighbors who are simply out of options.
To view the trailer, click the following link: http://vimeo.com/43043051

Saturday August 24, 2013 1:00pm - 2:20pm CDT
First United Methodist Church 518 19th St N, Birmingham, AL

Documentary Feature

Event Type Film
Tags Life & Liberty

1:30pm CDT

Teenage

Limited Capacity seats available

Teenagers did not always exist. In this living collage of rare archival material, filmed portraits, and voices lifted from early 20th Century diary entries, a struggle erupts between adults and adolescents to define a new idea of youth.

Saturday August 24, 2013 1:30pm - 2:48pm CDT
ASFA Black Box 1800 Reverend Abraham Woods Jr Blvd, Birmingham, AL ‎

Documentary Feature

Event Type Film

1:40pm CDT

Pride & Joy sponsored by Dreamland BBQ

Limited Capacity seats available

In Pride & Joy, Southern Foodways Alliance filmmaker Joe York travels from Virginia to Texas to tell contemporary stories of men and women who grow, prepare, and serve Southern food and drink. The film examines themes related to Southern foodways, sense of place, civil rights, gender, family relationships, and the diversity of the contemporary American South.
To view the trailer, click the following link: http://vimeo.com/36038586

Saturday August 24, 2013 1:40pm - 2:37pm CDT
Alabama Theatre 1817 3rd Ave N, Birmingham, AL ‎

Documentary Feature

Event Type Film

1:40pm CDT

Blackfish

Limited Capacity seats available

Blackfish tells the story of Tilikum, a notoriously aggressive orca that killed three people while in captivity. Director Gabriela Cowperthwaite uses shocking footage and emotional interviews to present a convincing case against keeping these wild animals for human entertainment.
To view the trailer, click the following link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6ou5DqfkZ8

Saturday August 24, 2013 1:40pm - 3:04pm CDT
Carver Theatre 1631 4th Ave N, Birmingham, AL ‎

Documentary Feature

Event Type Film
Tags Life & Liberty

3:30pm CDT

Hit & Stay

Limited Capacity seats available

Hit & Stay is a feature-length documentary about priests and nuns who protested the Vietnam War by breaking into draft boards, destroying draft records, and then waiting around to be arrested. As more actions took place, tactics changed, and the Selective Service found it more and more difficult to do their job. The original draft board actions actions inspired a movement, which shaped the anti-war movement and helped bring an end to the draft.
To view the trailer, click the following link: http://vimeo.com/58425284

Saturday August 24, 2013 3:30pm - 5:10pm CDT
First United Methodist Church 518 19th St N, Birmingham, AL

Documentary Feature

Event Type Film

4:00pm CDT

The Punk Singer

Limited Capacity seats available

Kathleen Hanna, lead singer of the punk band Bikini Kill and dance-punk trio Le Tigre, rose to national attention as the reluctant but never shy voice of the riot grrrl movement. She became one of the most famously outspoken feminist icons, a cultural lightning rod. Her critics wished she would just shut-up, and her fans hoped she never would. So in 2005, when Hanna stopped shouting, many wondered why. Through 20 years of archival footage and intimate interviews with Hanna, THE PUNK SINGER takes viewers on a fascinating tour of contemporary music and offers a never-before-seen view into the life of this fearless leader.

Saturday August 24, 2013 4:00pm - 5:15pm CDT
ASFA Dorothy Jemison Day Theater 1800 Reverend Abraham Woods Jr Blvd, Birmingham, AL ‎

Documentary Feature

Event Type Film

4:00pm CDT

Terms and Conditions May Apply

Limited Capacity seats available

A documentary that exposes what corporations and governments learn about people through Internet and cell phone usage, and what can be done about it ... if anything.
To view the trailer, click the following link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEO9iLWBWvw

Saturday August 24, 2013 4:00pm - 5:20pm CDT
ASFA Black Box 1800 Reverend Abraham Woods Jr Blvd, Birmingham, AL ‎

Documentary Feature

Event Type Film
Tags Life & Liberty

4:10pm CDT

Hey Bartender sponsored by Southern Comfort

Limited Capacity seats available

Two men try to achieve their dreams through bartending. An injured Marine turns his goals to becoming a principal bartender at the best cocktail bar in the world. A young man leaves his white-collar job to buy the corner bar in his hometown years later he struggles to keep afloat. The bar is three deep and the bartenders are in the weeds at the greatest cocktail party since before Prohibition. Hey Bartender is the story of the rebirth of the bartender and the comeback of the cocktail. Featuring the world's most renowned bartenders and access to the most exclusive bars in New York with commentary from Graydon Carter, Danny Meyer and Amy Sacco.
To view the trailer, click the following link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HUwmDqi2kA

Saturday August 24, 2013 4:10pm - 5:42pm CDT
Carver Theatre 1631 4th Ave N, Birmingham, AL ‎

Documentary Feature

Event Type Film

6:15pm CDT

Shored Up

Limited Capacity seats available

Set primarily in Long Beach Island (LBI), NJ and the Outer Banks of NC, Shored Up features surfer/activists Jon Coen and John Weber, geologists Norb Psuty, Orrin Pilkey and Stan Riggs, historians, citizens and politicians including Deborah Whitcraft, Margaret Schram and Mayor Jonathon Oldham. The film’s narrative begins with an introduction to LBI and the decade old battle between surfers and the Army Corps of Engineers over beach replenishment, an engineering approach to protect property from erosion that buries surf breaks and encourages more unwise development. From this initial conflict Shored Up leads us on a journey through the natural and human development of our barrier islands, those thin strips of sand that awaken our imagination and our desire to live on the edge of a rising sea. As evidence emerges that sea level rise is accelerating, putting our coastal towns and cities in grave danger, we visit the Outer Banks of North Carolina where pro-development groups fight to suppress science and to overturn North Carolina’s historically progressive approach to coastal development. As Shored Up explores the struggle raging between science and reason on one side and economic growth and human nature on the other it illuminates the central moral choice that is presented by climate change. Will we accept scientific consensus and make the sacrifices necessary to protect our communities and future generations, or will we opt for greed, ignoring the reality of a rising sea until it’s too late?
To view the trailer, click the following link: http://vimeo.com/58810595

Saturday August 24, 2013 6:15pm - 7:39pm CDT
First United Methodist Church 518 19th St N, Birmingham, AL

Documentary Feature

Event Type Film
Tags Life & Liberty

6:25pm CDT

Continental

Limited Capacity seats available

Saturday August 24, 2013 6:25pm - 8:00pm CDT
ASFA Dorothy Jemison Day Theater 1800 Reverend Abraham Woods Jr Blvd, Birmingham, AL ‎

Documentary Feature

Event Type Film
Tags Shout

6:30pm CDT

Muscle Shoals: Saturday Spotlight Film Sponsored by Lovoy, Summerville & Shelton

Limited Capacity seats available

Under the spiritual influence of the "Singing River" as Native Americans called it, the music of Muscle Shoals is some of the most important and resonant of all time. "I’ll Take You There", "Brown Sugar", "When a Man Loves a Woman", "I Never Loved A Man the Way That I Loved You", "Mustang Sally”, "Tell Mama", "Kodachrome", and "Freebird" are just a few of the tens of thousands of tracks created there.
At its heart is Rick Hall who founded FAME Studios. Overcoming crushing poverty and staggering tragedies, he brought black and white musicians together to create music that would last for generations while also giving birth to the unique ‘Muscle Shoals sound’ and the rhythm section ‘The Swampers’.
In this movie legendary artists including Aretha Franklin, Greg Allman, Bono, Clarence Carter, Jimmy Cliff, Mick Jagger, Etta James, Alicia Keys, Wilson Pickett, Keith Richards, Percy Sledge, Steve Winwood and others bear witness to the magnetism and mystery of Muscle Shoals and why it remains a global influence today.
To view the trailer, click the following link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auGUm2r0cLs

Saturday August 24, 2013 6:30pm - 8:12pm CDT
Alabama Theatre 1817 3rd Ave N, Birmingham, AL ‎

Documentary Feature

Event Type Film

8:35pm CDT

Spies of Mississippi

Limited Capacity seats available

Spies of Mississippi tells the story of a secret spy agency formed by the state of Mississippi to preserve segregation and maintain white supremacy. The anti-civil rights organization was hidden in plain sight in an unassuming office in the Mississippi State Capitol. Funded with taxpayer dollars and granted extraordinary latitude to carry out its mission, the Commission evolved from a propaganda machine into a full blown spy operation. How do we know this is true? The Commission itself tells us in more than 146,000 pages of files preserved by the State. This wealth of first person primary historical material guides us through one of the most fascinating and yet little known stories of America's quest for Civil Rights.
To view the trailer, click the following link: http://www.spiesofmississippithefilm.com/#!trailers/c1747

Saturday August 24, 2013 8:35pm - 9:55pm CDT
First United Methodist Church 518 19th St N, Birmingham, AL

Documentary Feature

Event Type Film
Tags Life & Liberty

10:30am CDT

A Will for the Woods

Limited Capacity seats available

A man’s passionate wish for a legacy of green burials inspires a profoundly affecting and optimistic portrait of people finding meaning in death.
Musician, folk dancer, and psychiatrist Clark Wang battles lymphoma while facing a potentially imminent need for funeral plans. Determined that his last act will not harm the environment and may even help protect it, Clark has discovered the movement to further sustainable funerals that conserve natural areas.
Enabling Clark’s wish is green burial pioneer Joe Sehee, who aims to realize this concept’s vast potential by helping define its goals and standards and endeavoring to open the world’s largest conservation burial ground.
Moved by Clark’s persistence and relying on Joe’s guidance, local cemetarian Dyanne Matzkevich, though avowedly “not a greenie,” establishes the first natural burial ground in North Carolina. Together she and Clark endeavor to protect the tract of forest adjacent to her conventional cemetery, developing a close bond. While Clark continues to try to overcome his illness, Clark and his partner Jane find great comfort in the thought that his death – whenever it happens – will be a force for regeneration.
A Will for the Woods is an immersive, life-affirming depiction of people coming to terms with mortality by embracing their connection to timeless natural cycles.
To view the trailer, click the following link: http://vimeo.com/62452617

Sunday August 25, 2013 10:30am - 12:13pm CDT
ASFA Black Box 1800 Reverend Abraham Woods Jr Blvd, Birmingham, AL ‎

Documentary Feature

Event Type Film

11:00am CDT

In God We Trust

Limited Capacity seats available

Eleanor Squillari, Bernie Madoff's secretary of 25 years, describes her devastation and shock upon learning that the biggest financial scam in U.S. history was perpetrated right under her very nose.
To view the trailer, click the following link: http://vimeo.com/63929692

Sunday August 25, 2013 11:00am - 12:22pm CDT
Carver Theatre 1631 4th Ave N, Birmingham, AL ‎

Documentary Feature

Event Type Film

11:00am CDT

The Life, Love and Hate of a Free Jazz Man and His Woman

Limited Capacity seats available

This is the story of Arthur Doyle, once a promising saxophonist in the New York school of Jazz' New Thing in the late 1960s and 1970s. He was sought out for his distinctive raw screaming saxophone by luminaries like Milford Graves and Sun Ra. Doyle, like many of his contemporaries, has struggled to maintain a healthy balance between life and music. The evidence of years spent pursuing a completely original sound is all around him. It is in his eyes, in his home and in the voices of his family. This film tells the story of a man who managed to live through his relationship with music. Now nearly 70, Doyle seems to be defying those forces that would keep him as a footnote in the history of American music.
To view the trailer for this film, click the following link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KELqwYFmFf8

Sunday August 25, 2013 11:00am - 12:25pm CDT
Red Mountain Theatre Company 301 19th St N, Birmingham, AL ‎

Documentary Feature

Event Type Film
Tags Alabama Film Block

1:30pm CDT

Tiny sponsored by Home Run

Limited Capacity seats available

Tiny is a documentary about home, and how we find it.
The film follow’s one couple’s attempt to build a Tiny House from scratch, and profiles other families who have downsized their lives into homes smaller than the average parking space.
Through homes stripped down to their essentials, the film raises questions about good design, the nature of home, and the changing American Dream.
To view the trailer, click the following link: http://vimeo.com/tinythemovie/tiny-trailer

**This film is screening with the short Moving for Midtown. Moving for Midtown considers the impact large developments can have on local communities. Is there a difference between a house and a home?

Sunday August 25, 2013 1:30pm - 2:35pm CDT
Red Mountain Theatre Company 301 19th St N, Birmingham, AL ‎

Documentary Feature

Event Type Film

1:30pm CDT

Far Out Isn't Far Enough

Limited Capacity seats available

Far Out Isn't Far Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story depicts one man's wild, lifelong adventure of testing societal boundaries through his use of subversive art. This 98-minute film combines traditional documentary storytelling with original animation from over 70 years worth of art from the renegade children's book author and illustrator. Using a historical palette of 20th century events to paint an artist's epic yet controversial life story, this HD documentary film offers a feature-length retrospective of Ungerer's life and art, pondering the complexities and contradictions of a man who, armed with an acerbic wit, an accusing finger and a razor sharp pencil, gave visual representation to the revolutionary voices during one of the most tantalizing and dramatic periods in American history. Far Out Isn't Far Enough explores the circumstances of his meteoric rise and fall on American soil, but also delves into Ungerer's formative years leading up to, and prolific years since, his time in America.
To view the trailer, click the following link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQlWgnerTRc

Sunday August 25, 2013 1:30pm - 3:08pm CDT
Alabama Theatre 1817 3rd Ave N, Birmingham, AL ‎

Documentary Feature

Event Type Film

1:35pm CDT

Good Ol' Freda

Limited Capacity seats available

Good Ol' Freda' tells the story of Freda Kelly, a shy Liverpudlian teenager asked to work for a young local band hoping to make it big: the Beatles. As the Beatles' fame multiplies, Freda bears witness to music and cultural history but never exploits her insider access. Their loyal secretary from beginning to end, Freda finally tells her tales for the first time in 50 years.
To view the trailer, click the following link: http://www.traileraddict.com/trailer/good-ol-freda/kickstarter-trailer

Sunday August 25, 2013 1:35pm - 3:01pm CDT
ASFA Dorothy Jemison Day Theater 1800 Reverend Abraham Woods Jr Blvd, Birmingham, AL ‎

Documentary Feature

Event Type Film

2:00pm CDT

Three Days At Foster

Limited Capacity seats available

In the 1950s and '60s, the epic battle to end institutional racism reverberated across the South. Many of the pivotal mileposts in the civil rights movement happened in Alabama, where segregation's hold was especially severe and unforgiving. One event came to symbolize Southern resistance: Segregationist Governor George Wallace's stand 'in the schoolhouse door' at the University of Alabama on June 11, 1963. Wallace fulfilled a campaign pledge by temporarily blocking the admission of two African-American students, but he forever planted his feet on the wrong side of history. Vivian Malone and James Hood registered for classes without incident, becoming iconic figures in the civil rights struggle. Yet, much less is known about the athletic pioneers who followed in their footsteps.

Written and directed by sports author Keith Dunnavant, Three Days At Foster tells a powerful, largely unknown story about the civil rights movement, focusing on several courageous athletes who challenged the last bastion of segregation in the shadow of George Wallace's infamy: Danny Treadwell, who integrated the state basketball tournament at Foster; Dock Rone, Andrew Pernell and Arthur Dunning, who walked on to the all-white Alabama football team in 1967 but have largely been lost to history; Wendell Hudson, UA’s first African-American scholarship athlete; and Wilbur Jackson, the first black man signed by Paul “Bear” Bryant’s football program. Intimate and revealing, it is a story about personal struggle and triumph, and ultimately, about the power of sports to touch hearts, change minds and heal a state’s wounds.

Sunday August 25, 2013 2:00pm - 3:20pm CDT
First United Methodist Church 518 19th St N, Birmingham, AL

Documentary Feature

Event Type Film
Tags Alabama Film Block, Life & Liberty

3:45pm CDT

Medora

Limited Capacity seats available

In America's basketball heartland, four boys from rural Medora, Indiana fight to end their high school's team's losing streak, as their dwindling town faces the threat of extinction.
To view the trailer, click the following link: http://medorafilm.com/trailer.html

**This film is screening with the short film Hale County Gorilla. A year after an unexpected visitor puts Hale County in the national spotlight, residents reflect on life in small town Alabama.

Sunday August 25, 2013 3:45pm - 5:07pm CDT
Red Mountain Theatre Company 301 19th St N, Birmingham, AL ‎

Documentary Feature

Event Type Film

3:45pm CDT

HeartChild

Limited Capacity seats available

HeartChild' is a documentary film about the 28 year Crys Worley, who is the mother of a nine year old autistic child, Sasha. It is a remarkable story about a mother's struggles, not only with her own health, but the well being of her son. Committing to Sasha that she will never give up on him and inspired by the challenges parents of autistic children face, she started a non-profit organization, called A.Skate - Autism. Skating with Kids through Acceptance, Therapy, and Education. This film documents her extraordinary story.
To view the trailer, click the following link: http://www.heartchildthemovie.com/#!trailer/mainPage

Sunday August 25, 2013 3:45pm - 5:28pm CDT
ASFA Dorothy Jemison Day Theater 1800 Reverend Abraham Woods Jr Blvd, Birmingham, AL ‎

Documentary Feature

Event Type Film
Tags Life & Liberty

4:15pm CDT

12 O'Clock Boys

Limited Capacity seats available

Pug, a thirteen year old boy living on a dangerous Westside block, has one goal in mind: to join the 12 O’Clock Boys; the notorious urban dirt-bike gang of Baltimore. Converging from all parts of the inner city, they invade the streets and clash with police, who are forbidden to chase the bikes for fear of endangering the public. Pug looks to the pack for mentorship, spurred by their dangerous lifestyle. He narrates their world as if explaining a dreamscape, complemented with unprecedented, action-packed coverage of the riders in their element, guided by the riders themselves as they take to the streets and clash with Police. The film presents the pivotal years of change in a boy’s life growing up in one of the most dangerous and economically depressed cities in the United States.
To view the trailer, click the following link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6E7f0uLoFnw

Sunday August 25, 2013 4:15pm - 5:30pm CDT
Alabama Theatre 1817 3rd Ave N, Birmingham, AL ‎

Documentary Feature

Event Type Film

4:20pm CDT

No Place On Earth

Limited Capacity seats available

A cave exploration in Ukraine leads to the unearthing of a story of World War II survivors who once found shelter in the same cave.

Sunday August 25, 2013 4:20pm - 5:20pm CDT
First United Methodist Church 518 19th St N, Birmingham, AL

Documentary Feature

Event Type Film
Tags Life & Liberty

6:15pm CDT

The Girls In The Band - FREE Screening

Limited Capacity seats available

The untold stories of female jazz and big band instrumentalists and their journeys from the late 1930's to the present day.

To view the trailer, click the following link: http://www.imdb.com/video/wab/vi2631901465/

This screening is presented in partnership with The Taste of 4th Avenue Jazz Festival

Sunday August 25, 2013 6:15pm - 7:36pm CDT
Carver Theatre 1631 4th Ave N, Birmingham, AL ‎

Documentary Feature

Event Type Film
Tags Life & Liberty

7:00pm CDT

Bending Steel

Limited Capacity seats available

Bending Steel is a strikingly moving documentary exploring the lost art of the oldetime strongman and one man’s struggle to overcome limitations of body and mind. The film follows 43-year-old Chris Schoeck as he trains to become a professional strongman, bending nails and horseshoes with his bare hands in preparation for his first appearance at New York’s historic Coney Island.
But as Chris begins to take these unique feats of strength public, crippling fears and insecurities are revealed. For the first time in his life he is compelled to confront social awkwardness, unsupportive parents, and an overwhelming fear of failure. What unfolds is the touching story of Chris’ quest for acceptance and fulfillment, two things which have always seemed just out of his reach.
To view the trailer, click the following link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8NVFUwj4Xo

Sunday August 25, 2013 7:00pm - 8:32pm CDT
ASFA Black Box 1800 Reverend Abraham Woods Jr Blvd, Birmingham, AL ‎

Documentary Feature

Event Type Film

7:00pm CDT

Antenna sponsored by Masco Fabrics

Limited Capacity seats available

In 1977, Memphis had hit bottom. With the death of Elvis and the collapse of Stax Records, the music that made the city famous was fading into memory. Local artists who played original music found themselves locked out of Memphis clubs in favor of cover bands and disco Djs. Tired of being ignored, a small group of punks found a decaying dive bar on Madison Avenue and transformed it into the Antenna, a name that would, for the next 15 years, be sononymous with new music. The no-rules club introduced the city to punk, new wave, alternative, and hardcore by providing local and national bands a place to play. But Antenna was more than a musical venue. It was a meeting place for the freaks, misfits, and artists; a pressure cooker for art and ideas.
Seventeen years after it closed, the Antenna lives on in the thriving Memphis underground music scene it inspired. Featuring the music of Panther Burns, The Grifters, The Oblivians, The Modifiers, Pezz, Calculated X, Sobering Consequences, Raid, Impala, Big Ass Truck, The Hellcats, and many more, this rollicking documentary shines a light on a neglected episode of 20th century music history, and finally gives the Memphis scene the respect it deserves.
To view the trailer, click the following link: http://www.youtube.com/user/antennaclub/videos

Sunday August 25, 2013 7:00pm - 8:35pm CDT
ASFA Lecture Hall 1800 Reverend Abraham Woods Jr Blvd, Birmingham, AL ‎

Documentary Feature

Event Type Film

8:45pm CDT

After Tiller

Limited Capacity seats available

After the assassination of Dr. George Tiller in Kansas in 2009, there are a limited number of doctors left in the country who provide third-trimester abortions for women. After Tiller moves between the rapidly unfolding stories of these doctors, all of whom were close colleagues of Dr. Tiller, and are fighting to keep this service available in the wake of his death. These four people have become the new number-one targets of the pro-life movement, yet continue to risk their lives every day to do work that many believe is murder, but which they believe is profoundly important for their patients' lives. After Tiller shows them confronting harassment from protesters, challenges in their personal lives, and a series of tough ethical decisions.
To view the trailer, click the following link: http://vimeo.com/62276058

Sunday August 25, 2013 8:45pm - 10:15pm CDT
Carver Theatre 1631 4th Ave N, Birmingham, AL ‎

Documentary Feature

Event Type Film
Tags Life & Liberty

8:55pm CDT

West Blocton: Small Town, Big Heart

Limited Capacity seats available

This is a documentary about a small town in Alabama called West Blocton. In its time, it was one of the largest coal mining towns in the United States. Watch as you are transported back in time with authentic pictures of a by-gone era and exclusive interviews with people who lived to see West Blocton as a booming coal mining town. The Commander of Air Force One who flew President Kennedy to Dallas on November 22nd, 1963 was from West Blocton. See what NFL player currently lives in West Blocton. See how coal mining is making a comeback in this small town and what the future holds for West Blocton. Set to an emotional soundtrack of musical score with true southern songs, this documentary will move your heart.

Sunday August 25, 2013 8:55pm - 10:05pm CDT
First United Methodist Church 518 19th St N, Birmingham, AL

Documentary Feature

Event Type Film
Tags Alabama Film Block, Life & Liberty