List of Sidewalk Film Festival Award Winners

This is a partial list of films that won awards at the Sidewalk Film Festival.

Contents

1999 - 2000 - 2001 - 2002 - 2003 - 2004 - 2005 - 2006 - 2007 - 2008 - 2009 - 2010 - 2011 - 2012

2007

9th Annual Sidewalk Film Festival: September 22 - September 24

Narrative Features

  • Best narrative Feature - Low and Behold
  • Best Director - Low and Behold
  • Best First Feature - August the First
  • Original Vision - Last Stop for Paul
  • Filmmaker to Watch - Murder Party

Documentaries

  • Best Documentary Feature - Darius Goes West: The Roll of His Life
  • Best Short Documentary - Salim Baba
  • Best Student Documentary - A Street Divided
  • Special Jury Award - Join Us

Short Films

  • Best Short Film - Pop Foul
  • Best Animated Film - Everything Will be OK
  • Best Student Film, 1st Place - Caress of the Creature; 2nd Place - Heartburn
  • Best Alabama Short Film - I'm Nostalgic
  • Kathryn Tucker Windham Storytelling Award - A Death in the Woods
  • Special Jury Award for Direction - Archer House
  • Special Jury Award for Brilliance in Imagery - Help is Coming
  • Special Jury Award for Brilliance in Animation - Their Circumstances
  • Alabama Citations of Excellence (ACE) Awards
    • Excellence in Storytelling - Asclepius Fandango
    • Excellence in Imagery - Modern Plays: The Music Video
    • Excellence in Directing - Cup of Joe
    • Excellence in Originality - Lunch with Lincoln
    • Excellence in Comedy - Lunch
    • Excellence in Comedy Writing - The Little Things
    • Excellence in Acting - Tallie Medel, in I'm Nostalgic
    • Excellence in Documentary Filmmaking: Dick-George, Tenn-Tom and Speaking Without Speaking

Audience Choice

  • Best Narrative Feature - American Fork
  • Best Documentary Feature - Darius Goes West: The Roll of his Life
  • Best Short Film - Deface
  • Best Alabama Film - Overflow

Other Awards

  • SideWrite, Grand Prize - "Self-Addressed" by James Pihakis
  • SideWrite, Second Prize - "Stuck" by Susan C. McCain
  • SideWrite, Production Prize - "Face Value" by Julie Pritt

2008

10th Annual Sidewalk Film Festival: September 26 - September 28

Narrative Features

  • Best Narrative Feature - Cook County
  • Best Director – Barry Jenkins, for Medicine for Melancholy

Documentaries

  • Best Documentary Feature - Intimidad
  • Best Short Documentary - Young Arabs
  • Special Jury Award, Feature Documentary - We are Wizards
  • Special Jury Award, Short Documentary - Silly & Serious: William Robinson and Self Portraits
  • Reel Green Award - Flow: For the Love of Water
  • Special Reel Green Jury Award - eDump

Short Films

  • Best Short Film - The Adventure
  • Best Animated Film - Starsearchers
  • Best Student Film - Viola: The Traveling Rooms of a Little Giant
  • Best Alabama Short Film - Trust
  • Kathryn Tucker Windham Storytelling Award - Hirsute
  • Special Jury Award for Outstanding Film making - Glory at Sea
  • Alabama Citation of Excellence Awards (ACE Awards)
    • Special Jury Award - 20th Century Reliance
    • Excellence in Documenting Educational Disparity - Fine Lines and Foundation of Success
    • For Silently Celebrating the Spirit of the South - Donkey Fountain
    • For Courage in Exploration of Unconventional Love - Palster
    • Best Catchphrase - One Bad Bastard

Audience Choice

Other Awards

  • SideWrite, Grand Prize - "A Good Man" by Stacey Davis
  • SideWrite, Production Prize - "Love in the Grocery Store" by Tam Le
  • Sidewalk Chalk: Curing Childhood Cancer, Winner - Out-Touching Cancer by Margaret Broach & Kristen Ryan

2009

11th Annual Sidewalk Film Festival: September 25 - September 27[1]

Narrative Features

  • Best Narrative Feature Film - The House of the Devil by Ti West
  • Grand Prix Award - Modern Love is Automatic by Zach Clark
  • Best Director - Scott Teems, for That Evening Sun
  • Best Performance - Adam Scott, in The Vicious Kind
  • Mise en Scene Award - David Lowery, St. Nick
  • Clint Howard Character Actor Award - Clint Howard, in Alabama Moon

Documentary Features

  • Best Documentary Feature Film - Best Worst Movie by Michael Paul Stephenson
  • Special Jury Award for Artistic Portrait - Luckey by Laura Longsworth
  • Special Jury Award for Artistic Vision - 45265 by Bill Ross & Turner Ross

Shorts

  • Best Short Film - I Am So Proud of You by Don Hertzfeld
  • Best Animated Film - Dahlia by Michael Langan
  • Best Alabama Short - Hallelujah! Gorilla Revival, by Jason LaRay & Jeremiah Ledbetter
  • Special Jury Prize - Feeder, by Joseph Ernst
  • Best Student Film - Token Hunchback, by Tim Reckart
  • Kathryn Tucker Windham Storytelling Award - Hallelujah! Gorilla Revival, by Jason LaRay & Jeremiah Ledbetter

Audience Choice Awards

  • Best Narrative Feature - Alabama Moon by Tim McCanlies
  • Best Documentary Feature - Best Worst Movie by Michael Paul Stephenson
  • Best Short Film - Some of What I Know About Tommy By Chris Hilleke
  • Best Alabama Film - Interplanetary by Chance Shirley

Alabama Awards

  • Alabama Citation of Excellence Award (ACE Award) - Cerebella by Adam Windgard & Alex Justinger
  • Scramble, Best in Show - Natural Selection by Team Blue Mug
  • SideWrite, Production Prize Winner - "The Burden", by Bill Barnett
  • SideWrite, "Lost in Transmission", by Carl Edward Orr

2010

12th Annual Sidewalk Film Festival: September 24 - September 26[2]

Jury Awards

  • Best Feature: Narrative - Audrey the Trainwreck
  • Best Feature: Documentary - Beijing Taxi
  • Best Short: Narrative - Conlang
  • Best Short: Documentary - Seltzer Works
  • Best Animated Film - The Bellows March
  • Best Alabama Film - Perry County
  • Clint Howard Character Actor Award - Wendell Pearce, in Night Catches Us
  • Kathryn Tucker Windham Award for Storytelling - Daud
  • Special Prize for Direction - Will Canon, for Brotherhood
  • Special Jury Prize - The Thing About Being an Assassin

Audience Choice Awards

  • Best Feature: Narrative - Brotherhood
  • Best Feature: Documentary - Ready, Set, Bag!
  • Best Short: Narrative - Lucy in LaLa
  • Best Short: Documentary - Torch
  • Best Alabama Film - Lifted

Other Awards

  • Sidewalk Programmers Award - Barbershop Punk and Gabi on the Roof in July (tie)
  • Best Teen Film - Planting Season

2011

13th Annual Sidewalk Film Festival: August 26 - August 28 [2]

Jury Awards

  • Best Feature: Narrative - Without, Dir: Mark Jackson
  • Best Feature: Documentary - Guilty Pleasures, Dir: Julie Moggan
  • Best Short: Narrative - Terrebonne, Dir: Jeremy Craig
  • Best Short: Documentary - Mr. Happy Man, Dir: Matt Morris
  • Best Animated Film - Bike Race, Dir: Tom Schroeder
  • Best Alabama Film - The Chief, Dir: Christopher Scott and Mary Baschab
  • Clint Howard Character Actor Award - Sean Nelson, in Treatment
  • Special Breakout Performance Award - Nate Rubin, in Wuss
  • Kathryn Tucker Windham Award for Storytelling - Two-Legged Rat Bastards, Dir: Scott Weintrob
  • Best Student Film - An Inconvenient Youth, Dir: Slater Jewell-Kemker

Audience Choice Awards

  • Best Feature: Narrative - A Bag of Hammers, Dir: Brian Crano
  • Best Feature: Documentary - Man in the Glass: The Dale Brown Story, Dir: Patrick Sheehan
  • Best Short: Narrative - Annie and Her Anger, Dir: Tam Le
  • Best Short: Documentary - The Dancer, Dir: Seth Stark
  • Best Alabama Film - The Man in the Glass: The Dale Brown Story, Dir Patrick Sheehan

Other Awards

  • Sidewalk Programmers Award - Small Pond, Dir: Josh Slates

2012

14th Annual Sidewalk Film Festival: August 26 - August 28 [3]

Jury Awards

  • Best Feature: Narrative - Kid Thing", Dir: David Zellner
  • Best Feature: Documentary - American Man, Dir: Jon Frankel
  • Best Short: Narrative - DeafBlind, Dir: Ewan Bailey
  • Best Short: Documentary - Brute Force, Dir: Ben Steinbauer
  • Best Alabama Film - Eating Alabama, Dir: Andrew Beck Grace
  • Best Alabama Short - "Grand Fugue on the Art of Gumbo", Dir: Gideon Kennedy and Isabel Machado
  • Kathryn Tucker Windham Award for Storytelling - 'Julie On Her Way, Dir: Tam Le
  • Best Student Film - "Undocumented", Dir: Carlos Estrada

Audience Choice Awards

  • Best Feature: Narrative - Wolf, Dir: Ya'Kee Smith
  • Best Feature: Documentary - G.L.O.W", Dir: Brett Whitcomb
  • Best Short: Narrative - The Wheel, Dir: John Roberts
  • Best Short: Documentary - Cardboard Titantics: Smart People Being Stupid, Dir: Sam Frazier
  • Best Alabama Film - American Man, Dir: John Frankel

2013

15th Annual Sidewalk Film Festival: August 23–25, 2013

Documentary:

Best Documentary Feature: HIT & STAY

  • Special Mention by Doc Jury:
  • REMOTE AREA MEDICAL
  • TEENAGE for Creative Editing Process!

Shout:

  • The Most Fun I’ve Had With My Pants On (Special Cinematography Award)
  • Straight and Narrow (Short)
  • Remote Area (Life & Liberty)
  • Ink Deep (Best Short)
  • Continental (Best Feature)

Narrative:

  • Clint Howard Character Actor Award: Louisa Krause, BLUEBIRD
  • Special Jury Prize for Best Director: Destin Daniel Cretton, SHORT TERM 12
  • Jambor-Franklin Founder's Award for Best Narrative: SEE YOU NEXT TUESDAY

Shorts:

  • Best Narrative Short: S/ASH
  • Best Short Doc: World Fair
  • Best Student Film: Unsettlement
  • Alan Hunter Best Alabama Film :Tasia and the Cheese Revolution
  • Kathryn Tucker Windham Award: The Casaba River

Special Awards:

  • Visionary Award: Showstopper
  • Lil’ Bub award for cuteness: B-Boy

Schaeffer Eye Center Audience Choice Awards:

  • Narrative Feature: Short Term 12
  • Doc Feature: Good Old Freda
  • Best Narrative Short: Stakes
  • Best Doc Short: How to Sharpen Pencils
  • Best Alabama Film: Eye on the Sixties

Shout Audience Choice:

  • Narrative feature: Southern Baptist Sissies
  • Doc Feature: Continental
  • Short: Ink Deep

2014

16th Annual Sidewalk Film Festival: August 22–24, 2014

Sidewalk Jury Awards

  • Jambor-Franklin Founder's Award for Best Narrative Feature: L for Leisure
  • Best Narrative Short: The Chaperone
  • Best Documentary Feature: The Hand That Feeds
  • Best Documentary Short: Cherry Pop: The Story of the World's Fanciest Cat
  • Alan Hunter Best Alabama Film: Limo Ride
  • Best Student Film: Skunk
  • Best SHOUT Film: An Honest Liar Honorable mentions: Dyke Central: Taboo and The Night is Ours
  • Kathryn Tucker Windham Storytelling Award: Yearbook
  • Clint Howard Character Actor Award: Cindy Silver, Uncertain Terms
  • Special Jury Award for Visionary Storytelling: Bob Birdnow's Remarkable Tale of Human Survival and the Transcendence of Self
  • Special Jury Award for Creative Spirit in Documentary Filmmaking: Living Stars
  • SIDEWRITE Best Alabama Screenplay: Alan Moore, The Fishing Trip

Sidewalk Audience Choice Awards

  • Best Narrative Feature: It Is What It Is
  • Best Documentary Feature: No No: A Dockumentary
  • Best Narrative Short: The Gunfighter
  • Best Documentary Short: The Next Part
  • Best Alabama Film: Skanks
  • Best SHOUT Film: South Beach on Heels

2015

Feature Films:

Jambor-Franklin Founder's Award for Best Narrative: Trey Edward Shults, KRISHA

Special Jury Prize: Alexandria Bombach & Mo Scarpelli, FRAME BY FRAME

Special Jury Prize for Audacious Vision: Rania Attieh & Daniel Garcia, H.

Best Documentary Feature: Zackary Canepari & Drea Cooper, T-REX

Honorable Mention: Steve Hoover, CROCODILE GENNADIY

Programmers’ Award: David Burkman, HAZE

Clint Howard Character Actor Award: Eleanore Pienta, 7 CHINESE BROTHERS

Alan Hunter Best Alabama Award: Bradford Thomason & Brett Whitcomb, COUNTY FAIR, TEXAS

Short Films:

Best Narrative Short: Minji Kang, “The Loyalist”

Best Short Documentary: Nicolas Coles, “The House Is Innocent”

Best Student Film: Kelsey Harrison, “Coming and Going”

Kathryn Tucker Windham Award: Paul D. Hart, “Three Fingers”

SHOUT:

Best SHOUT Feature: Stephen Cone, HENRY GAMBLE’S BIRTHDAY PARTY

SHOUT Programmers’ Award: Marq Evans, THE GLAMOUR & THE SQUALOR

Best SHOUT Short: Jeremy Asher Lynch, Tomgirl

Schaeffer Eye Center Audience Choice Awards:

Narrative Feature: For a Few Zombies More

Documentary Feature: Revival: The Sam Bush Story

Best Narrative Short: One Night in Aberdeen

Best Documentary Short: Stumped

Best Alabama Film: Revival: The Sam Bush Story

SHOUT Audience Choice:

Narrative Feature: Henry Gamble's Birthday Party

Documentary Feature: The State of Being Human

Short: “Elder”[4]

2016

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Jury Awards

Jambor-Franklin Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature: "Donald Cried"

Best Documentary Feature: ''Syl Johnson: Any Way the Wind Blows." Honorable Mention: "Jackson."

Alan Hunter Best Alabama Film: ''Gip''

Best Narrative Short: "A Film by Vera Vaughn''

Best Documentary Short: ''Frame 394"

Best Student Film: ''The Mink Catcher"

Special Jury Award, Short: "The Champion" and "A House Without Snakes"

Sidewalk Programmers Award: "The Master Cleanse" Honorable mention: "Cheerleader"

Sidewalk Programmers Shorts Award: "The Quantified Self"

Kathryn Tucker Windham Storytelling Award: ''Pickle''

Clint Howard Character Actor Award: Celia Rowlson-Hall, "MA"

Jury Award Honorable Mention for Narrative Filmmaking: "Red Folder"

Jury Award Honorable Mention: "First Lady of the Revolution"

Best Family/Kids Film: "Kedi"

Honorable Mention for Comedy: "Nigel & Oscar vs. Sasquatch"

Honorable Mention for Imagination: "Monty and the Runaway Furnace"

Best SHOUT Feature: ''Teenage Cocktail"

Best SHOUT Documentary: ''Kiki"

Best SHOUT Short: ''Sign"

SHOUT Programmers Award: "Slash." Honorable mention: "MA."

SHOUT Special Mention: Clare Cooney in "Bird of Prey"

SHOUT Special Mention: "Ending the Silence," Best LGBTQ Alabama Film

Audience Choice

Best Narrative Feature: "Service to Man''

Best Documentary Feature: "Gip"

Best Narrative Short: "Madame Black"

Best Documentary Short: "Pickle"

Best Alabama Film: "First Lady of the Revolution"

Best SHOUT Narrative Feature: "Miles"

Best SHOUT Documentary Feature: "Suited"

Best SHOUT Short: "The Escape Hatch''

2017

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Jury Awards

The following awards are presented by the competition juries of Sidewalk & SHOUT.

Jambor-Franklin Founders Award For Best Narrative Feature ($1000) — Are We Not Cats directed by Xander Robin

Best Narrative Short ($500) — “August” directed by Caitlyn Greene

Best Documentary Feature ($1000) — The New Radical directed by Adam Bhala Lough

Best Documentary Short sponsored By Baker Donelson ($500) — “All the Leaves Are Brown” directed by Daniel Robin

Best Animated Short Film ($250) — “Second to None” directed by Vincent Gallagher

Alan Hunter Award For Best Alabama Film ($500) — “Gardens of Red Dust” directed by Corey Carpenter and Maggie Patterson

Kathryn Tucker Windham Storytelling Award sponsored By The Family Of Kathryn Tucker Windham ($1000) — “Mutt” directed by Erin Sanger

Best Student Film sponsored By Media And Film Studies At Birmingham-Southern College ($250) — “Fry Day” directed by Laura Moss

Family Film AwardInto the Who Knows directed by Micah Barber

Best Life & Liberty Film sponsored By Jones & Hawley Law ($250) — Most Beautiful Island directed by Ana Asensio

Best SHOUT LGBTQ Film sponsored By The LGBTQ Fund ($500) — Alabama Bound directed by Lara Embry and Carolyn Sherer

Spirit Of Sidewalk Award — The General and Dan Koch of Splash Adventure

Features Programmers Award ($500) — Blame directed by Quinn Shephard

Shorts Programmers Award ($250) — “Shilo” directed by Tyler Russell

Best Crowdfunded Film Award sponsored By Seed&Spark — “Olde E” directed by Xavier Neal-Burgin

Audience Awards

The following awards are audience choice. Sponsored by Educ.

Best Narrative Feature ($250) — Dr. Brinks & Dr. Brinks directed by Josh Crockett

Best Documentary Feature sponsored By Urban Cookhouse ($250) — Charged: The Eduardo Garcia Story directed by Phillip Baribeau

Best Narrative Short sponsored By Alabama Professional Services ($150) — “Just, Go” directed by Pavel Gumennikov

Best Documentary Short ($150) — TIE: “First to Go: Story of the Katakoa Family” directed by Myles Matsuno and “A Good Blinder” by Mike Grundmann and Shaun Wright

Best Alabama Film sponsored By Forge ($250) — Alabama Bound directed by Lara Embry and Carolyn Sherer

Best SHOUT LGBTQ Film ($250) — Princess Cyd directed by Stephen Cone

2018

Jury Awards

Awards presented by the competition juries of Sidewalk & Shout[7]

Jambor-Franklin Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature ($1000) --"Thunder Road" directed by Jim Cummings

Best Documentary Feature ($1000) --"America" directed by Erick Stoll

Best Narrative Short ($500) --"Debris" directed by Julio Ramos

Best Documentary Short ($500) --"The Driver is Red" directed by Randall Christopher

Best Animated Short ($250) --"Funeral" directed by Leah Shore

Kathryn Tucker Windham Storytelling Award ($1000) --"Bad Things" directed by Mira K Lippold-Johnson

Alan Hunter Best Alabama Film ($500) --"Wrestle" directed by Suzannah Herbert and Lauren Belfer

Best SHOUT Feature Film ($500) --"Call Her Ganda" directed by PJ Raval

Best SHOUT Short Film ($250) --"Poison" directed by Erica Eng

Best Family Film --"Science Fair" directed by Christina Constantini and Darren Foster

Best Student Film ($250) --"Native" directed by Isaiah Woods

Reel South Short Film Award ($500) --"Second Assault" directed by Jullian Corsie and Amy Rosner

Sidewrite Best Feature Length Script ($500) --"Indian Country" written by Troy Kelly

Sidewrite Best Short Script ($250) --"Cherry Glazed" written by Christine Sherwood

Sidewrite Best Alabama Script ($250) --"June Block Hero" written by Seth Kozak

Audience Awards

Best Narrative Feature ($250) --"Mapplethorpe" directed by Ondi Timoner

Best Documentary Feature ($250) --Bathtubs over Broadway" directed by Dava Whisenat

Best Narrative Short ($150) --"Undiscovered" directed by Sara Litzenberger

Best Documentary Short ($150) --"Come and Take It" directed by Ellen Spiro and PJ Raval

Best Alabama Film ($250) --"Icepick to the Moon" directed by Skizz Cyzyk

Best SHOUT Film ($250) --"Wild Nights with Emily" directed by Madeleine Olnek

Programmer Awards

Features Programmer's Award ($500) --"Man on Fire" directed by Joel Fendelman

Shorts Programmer's Award ($250) --"Woke" directed by Kimberly Aleah

SHOUT Programmer's Award --"Matter and Manner" directed by Nigel Defriez

Best Life & Liberty Film ($250) --"Youth Unstappable" directed by Slater Jewell-Kemker

Spirit of Sidewalk Award --Jailen Young of Wrestle

Screenplay Awards[8] -Sidewrite Screenplay Competition

Best Alabama Screenplay: “June Block Hero” written by Seth Kozak

Best Short Screenplay: “Cherry Glazed” written by Christine Sherwood

Best Feature Screenplay: “Indian Country” written by Troy Kelly

2019

Screenplay Awards[8] -Sidewrite Screenplay Competition

Best Alabama Screenplay: “The Last American Lynching” written by T Gordon Stanley & Jeremy J Ford

Best Short Screenplay: “Found Objects” written by Amy Bond

Best Feature Screenplay: “Daughters Lost in the Desert” written by A.M. Sanchez

References

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