Sidewalk Film Festival 2022 now underway goes BIG with 250+ films and events

Sidewalk Film Festival announced the complete lineup for next week’s highly anticipated 24th edition of the popular and nationally-acclaimed Birmingham-based film festival which will take place August 22-28.

The beloved and nationally celebrated film festival, follows last year’s comeback success returning to in-theater screenings and in-person presentations by doubling down with an ambitiously curated and expansive slate of programming that could only have been put together by Sidewalk’s programming team under the leadership of Creative Director and Lead Programmer Rachel Morgan.

This year’s Opening Night screening will be Bradford Thomason and Brett Whitcomb’s festival favorite documentary Butterfly in the Sky and Margaret Brown’s documentary Descendant, winner of a Special Jury Prize at Sundance, will be the Closing Night screening.


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They are among and incredibly packed schedule including 62 features (24 narrative, 38 documentaries), 184 short films (83 narrative, 64 documentary, 17 animated, 20 teen) 7 episodic projects, and 20 music videos  All of takes place over 7 days of films, panels, parties and events that will check all of the boxes the film festival has become known for: top independent titles, screenings of throwback favorites and rare titles, films that delve into the socio-politics of the moment, and all of it ultimately aiming to provide film lovers with the best time they could possibly have immersing themselves in Sidewalk’s distinctive style and love of film.

In addition to the Closing Night screening, As if that isn’t enough, Sidewalk has also put added programming to place more emphasis on local Alabama-based filmmakers and films shot in the state this year.

Butterfly in the Sky
BUTTERFLY IN THE SKY
Descendant
DESCENDANT

Sidewalk Film Festival Creative Director and Lead Programmer, Rachel Morgan, said, “The programming team is incredibly excited about the Sidewalk line-up this year. We feel certain that we’ve once again gotten close to the impossible goal of “something for everyone”. 2022 has been especially notable for exceptional Alabama films from the opening night selection Butterfly in the Sky that recently premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival to Margaret Brown’s Obama-Endorsed Descendant to the super sly Pretty Problems and even an Alabama-made horror double feature (The Third Saturday in October). We’re also incredibly honored to have worked with Showtime to host several films including Mcenroe and Nothing Compares and, of course, we’ve partnered with our BFF A24 to host Funny Pages and God’s Creatures. Then there are the 60 plus other features and 250 or so shorts. And you know us… the parties.” 

Sidewalk’s traditional themed showcase evenings will begin on Monday, August 22 with an Alabama Spotlight highlighted by a special program of short films shot and produced in the state or with Alabama as a central theme and focus. The evening will be capped by TVs Of Terror: Sleepaway Camp (1983). Robert Hiltzik’s film follows a shy, traumatized young girl who has been sent to summer camp with her cousin. Shortly after her arrival, anyone with sinister or less than honorable intentions toward her gets their comeuppance.

Sleepaway Camp
SLEEPAWAY CAMP
Battleground
BATTLEGROUND

Tuesday, August 23 will be the Life & Liberty Spotlight headlined by Cynthia Lowen’s Battleground, an urgently timely window into the intersection of abortion and politics in America, following three women who lead formidable anti-abortion organizations to witness the enormous influence they wield. As the nation faces the end of Roe, the film also depicts those on the front lines of the fierce fight to maintain access. Battleground was partially filmed in Alabama and includes Alabamians Jenna King and Samantha Blakely.

Wednesday, August 24 will aim the Spotlight on SHOUT, Sidewalk FF’s acclaimed LGBTQ showcase, presented by AIDS Alabama and sponsored by Magic City LGBTQ Health Studies, the featured film will be Ray Whitehouse’s A Run For More. The filmfocuses on Frankie Gonzales-Wolfe as she attempts to make history as the first openly elected transgender official in Texas. Unfolding amidst an onslaught of trans legal attacks, A Run for More immerses viewers on Frankie’s journey as she finds her voice, questions her relationship to community, and tries to win an election.

A Run For More
A RUN FOR MORE
Jasmine Star
JASMINE IS A STAR

Thursday, August 25 is Sidewalk’s Black Lens Spotlight Night, and Jo Rochelle’s Jasmine Is A Star is the featured film, which follows a determined 16-year-old with albinism makes it her mission to become a professional model in her hometown of Minneapolis, while attempting to go unnoticed in every other aspect of her teenage life.

The official Opening Night selection on Friday, August 26 will be Bradford Thomason and Brett Whitcomb’s documentary Butterfly in the Sky. The film tells the story of the 80s televison classroom staple Reading Rainbow hosted by LeVar Burton. The film chronicles the efforts of broadcasters, educators, filmmakers, and, of course, the beloved host who believed television could inspire a lifelong love of reading. Two nights later, on Sunday, August 28, Margaret Brown’s documentary Descendant will take the official Closing Night slot as Sidewalk presents the award-winning filmmaker’s film which looks at her return to Mobile, Alabama to document the search for and historic discovery of The Clotilda, the last known slave ship to arrive in America illegally transporting enslaved Africans.

Cyst
CYST
THE INTEGRITY OF JOSEPH CHAMBERS
THE INTEGRITY OF JOSEPH CHAMBERS
PRETTY PROBLEMS
PRETTY PROBLEMS

Highlights among the other narrative titles include Tyler Russell’s Cyst, an old school monster movie in which a new cyst-removal machine inadvertently turns a patient’s tumor into a cyst-monster that terrorizes the office. Russell Alabama’s own George Hardy are scheduled to attend.

Robert Machoian’s The Integrity Of Joseph Chambers premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and stars Alabama native and resident, Clayne Crawford. Shot in Alabama, the film is about an insurance salesmen, who, fearing the apocalypse sets off into the woods on a solo hunting experiment. Kestrin Pantera’s Pretty Problems stars Birmingham native Britt Rentschler in a comedy about a couple that accepts an invitation to a Sonoma Chateau by affluent strangers, and end up in the most unhinged weekend of their lives. The film was this year’s winner of the Narrative Spotlight Audience Award at SXSW. Jeff Baena’s latest, Spin Me Round follows the experiences of a woman who wins an all-expenses trip to a company’s gorgeous “institute” outside of Florence, and also the chance to meet the restaurant chain’s wealthy and charismatic owner. However, she finds a different adventure than the one she imagined. The film stars Alison Brie, Aubrey Plaza, Molly Shannon and Tim Heidecker.

Throwback titles include John G. Avildsen’s The Karate Kid Part III (1989). Arguably the most over-the-top (and fun) Karate Kid in the series, Ostracised villain John Kreese attempts to gain revenge on Daniel and Miyagi, with the help of a Vietnam War comrade, the wealthy owner of a toxic waste disposal business. The screening is part of the Sidewalk Family line-up, with kids 12 and under getting in for free. In celebration of Olivia Newton-John, Sidewalk will present Robert Greenwald’s cult-musical classic Xanadu (1980) Featuring the music of ELO and co-starring Gene Kelly, the film’s synopsis would tell you it’s about a struggling artist living in Los Angeles meeting a girl who may hold the key to his happiness, but we all know it’s a secret documentary about the fact that for a magical time, Olivia Newton John made everything better for everyone – even on roller skates.

THE KARATE KID III
THE KARATE KID III
XANADU
XANADU
MANDA BELA (SEND A BULLET)
MANDA BELA (SEND A BULLET)

Exemplifying the special curatorial events that make Sidewalk a singular film festival experience include the following presentations: Daniel Fox’s documentary Etowah looks at the wild, incredible life of Duquette Johnston that took him from the spotlight with breakout 90’s indie band Verbena all the way down to the Etowah County Correctional Facility and then back to Birmingham, opening a clothing store in Woodlawn and releasing a critically acclaimed new record. The screening will be followed by a Q&A and special live perfomance by Duquette Johnston. Jason Kohn’s documentary Manda Bala (Send A Bullet) (2007) is a film that is incredibly difficult to find, let alone see it on the big screen. The Grand Jury Prize: Documentary winner at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival is an examination of corruption and class warfare in Brazil as told through the stories of a wealthy businessman, a plastic surgeon who assists kidnapping victims and a politician whose income relies on a frog farm.

Finally, the “only at Sidewalk” award could easily go to the Double Feature presentation of Jay Burleson’s The Third Saturday In October and The Third Saturday in October Part V.In the first film, Ricky Dean Logan is a man on a mission. Years ago, he lost a child at the hands of a spree killer, and as that killer escapes Death Row, Ricky Dean throws himself in the line of fire to stop him from killing again as the killer preys upon a group of friends gathered to watch a college football game. In Part V an unstoppable killer stalks and butchers the occupants of multiple homes across the stretch of one lone country road as the residents prepare to watch the yearly college football bout between the Alabama-Mobile Seahawks and Tennessee A&M Commonwealth. The films are unabashed love letters to the slashers of the 80’s, and Burelson will be on hand to talk about his vision

Tickets are now on sale and additional information can be found at sidewalkfest.com.


2022 Sidewalk Film Festival Official Selections:

OPENING NIGHT SELECTION

Butterfly In The Sky

Directors: Bradford Thomason, Brett Whitcomb

Country: United States; Running Time: 87 min

A feature-length documentary telling the story of Reading Rainbow. The film explores the legendary 80s television program hosted by LeVar Burton that has been notably recognized as a classroom staple. Butterfly in the Sky chronicles the journeys of a handful of broadcasters, educators, filmmakers, and one incredible host who believed television could inspire a lifelong love of reading.

CLOSING NIGHT SELECTION

Descendant

Director: Margaret Brown

Country: United States; Running Time: 109 min

Award-winning filmmaker Margaret Brown returns to her hometown of Mobile, Alabama, to document the search for and historic discovery of The Clotilda, the last known slave ship to arrive in America illegally transporting enslaved Africans. After a century of secrecy and speculation, descendants of The Clotilda’s survivors are reclaiming their story as they search for this elusive wreckage, joined by a team of globally renowned archeologists and divers from the Smithsonian.


NARRATIVE FEATURES

Bebe’s Kids (1992)

Director: Bruce W. Smith

Country: United States; Running Time: 72 min

To impress his new girlfriend, a man agrees to look after her friend’s kids, only to find that they are uncontrollably rambunctious.

Bootyology

Director: Joe Eddy

Country: United States; Running Time: 110 min

When a documentary crew sets out to explore the relationship between artificial intelligence and popular music, their journey takes an unexpected turn when they stumble across a mystery involving the disappearance of the infamous rap duo, The Booty Boys.

The Civil Dead

Director: Clay Tatum

Country: United States; Running Time: 103 min

A misanthropic, struggling photographer just wants to watch TV and eat candy while his wife is out of town, but when a desperate old pal resurfaces, his plans are thwarted, with spooky consequences. From Alabama natives  Clay Tatum and Whitmer Thomas.

Cyst

Director: Tyler Russell

Country: United States; Running Time: 73 min

Cyst is an old school monster movie in which an enthusiastic plastic surgeon will stop at nothing to patent his latest cyst-removal machine. What started out as Patricia the nurse’s last day turns into a battle for survival when the doctor’s machine inadvertently turns a patient’s tumor into a cyst-monster that terrorizes the office. Starring Alabama’s own George Hardy

Funny Pages

Director: Owen Kline

Country: United States; Running Time: 86 min

A bitingly funny coming-of-age story of a teenage cartoonist who rejects the comforts of his suburban life in a misguided quest for soul.

God’s Country

Director: Julian Higgins

Country: United States; Running Time: 102 min

When a grieving college professor confronts two hunters she catches trespassing on her property, she’s drawn into an escalating battle of wills with catastrophic consequences.

God’s Creatures

Directors: Saela Davis & Anna Rose Holmer

Country: United States; Running Time: 94 min

In a windswept fishing village, a mother is torn between protecting her beloved son and her own sense of right and wrong. A lie she tells for him rips apart their family and close-knit community in this tense, sweepingly emotional epic. Starring Emily Watson, Paul Mescal and Aisling Franciosi.

Good Girl Jane

Director: Sarah Elizabeth Mintz

Country: United States; Running Time: 117 min

Starring Rain Spencer, Patrick Gibson and Andie MacDowell, Good Girl Jane is a drug-fueled love story inspired by true events. Jane, a lonely teen, struggles to find intimacy in her broken home. She sinks deeper into her feelings of isolation until a raucous group of misfits throws her a lifeline. This electric crew introduces Jane to a life of pain-free acceptance and camaraderie, and offers her a much needed sense of relief. As she plunges head first into their explosive world, she encounters a charming drug dealer, Jamie. The two fall hopelessly in love. As Jamie’s influence grows, Jane becomes entangled in his amateur meth ring. Their intoxicating relationship consumes her, causing Jane’s health and home life to erode rapidly, finally culminating in catastrophe. Ultimately, Jane is forced to choose between Jamie and her own survival.

The Integrity Of Joseph Chambers

Director: Robert Machoian

Country: United States; Running Time: 96 min

Fearing the apocalypse, an insurance salesman sets off into the woods on a solo hunting experiment. Shot in Alabama and featuring Alabama native and resident, Clayne Crawford, THE INTEGRITY OF JOSEPH CHAMBERS recently premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival.

Jasmine Is A Star

Director: Jo Rochelle

Country: United States; Running Time: 58 min

A determined 16-year-old with albinism makes it her mission to become a professional model in her hometown of Minneapolis, while attempting to go unnoticed in every other aspect of her teenage life.

The Karate Kid Part III (1989)

Director: John G. Avildsen

Country: United States; Running Time: 112 min

Ostracised villain John Kreese attempts to gain revenge on Daniel and Miyagi, with the help of a Vietnam War comrade, the wealthy owner of a toxic waste disposal business.

Our Father, The Devil (Mon Père, le Diabe)

Director: Ellie Foumbi

Country: France, United States; Running Time: 107 min

An African immigrant’s quiet existence in a small mountain town in the south of France is upended by the arrival of an African priest, whom she recognizes from her past

Peace In The Valley

Director: Tyler Riggs

Country: United States; Running Time: 88 min

After losing her husband in a mass shooting, a devastated young mother seeks closure while shouldering the weight of raising their son on her own.

Petit Mal

Director: Ruth Caudeli

Country: Colombia; Running Time: 89 min

Three young women, Martina, Laia, and Anto, who are in a passionate, throuple see the dynamic of their relationship reshaped when one is called away for a long-term project.

Pretty Problems

Director: Kestrin Pantera

Country: United States; Running Time: 103 min

Low cash flow + plan B jobs + a snooze alarm sex life: Jack and Lindsey Simpson are officially stuck. But when they get invited to a Sonoma Chateau by affluent strangers, they end up on the most unhinged weekend of their lives. With the “haves,” anything goes — including their bearings on reality. Can their relationship survive this new wild west of wealth? Do they even want it to? Smash a glass, take the ride.

Quantum Cowboys

Director: Geoff Marslett

Country: United States; Running Time: 99 min

In this mixed-media animated film, two hapless drifters, Frank and Bruno, team up with Linde to recover her land and trek across 1870s Southern Arizona to find an elusive frontier musician. Complex quantum time theory is blended with philosophical musings about art as the way we understand our history and memories, with gunfights, horses, dance halls, cacti, and saloons.

Resurrection

Director: Andrew Semans

Country: United States; Running Time: 103 min

A woman’s carefully constructed life is upended when an unwelcome shadow from her past returns, forcing her to confront the monster she’s evaded for two decades.

Retrograde

Director: Adrian Murray

Country: United States; Running Time: 74 min

A minor traffic citation spirals into an all-consuming obsession for a neurotic young woman.

Sleepaway Camp (1983)

Director: Robert Hiltzik

Country: United States; Running Time: 84 min

Angela Baker, a shy, traumatized young girl, is sent to summer camp with her cousin. Shortly after her arrival, anyone with sinister or less than honorable intentions toward her gets their comeuppance.

Spin Me Round

Director: Jeff Baena

Country: United States; Running Time: 104 min

A woman wins an all-expenses trip to a company’s gorgeous “institute” outside of Florence, and also the chance to meet the restaurant chain’s wealthy and charismatic owner. She finds a different adventure than the one she imagined. Starring Alison Brie, Aubrey Plaza, Molly Shannon and Tim Heidecker.

The Third Saturday In October and The Third Saturday in October Part V Double Feature

Director: Jay Burleson

Country: United States; Running Time: 192 min

The Third Saturday in October Part V

It’s Part V! A love letter to the lesser sequels to popular 80’s slasher franchises, The Third Saturday in October Part V tells the story of an unstoppable killer as he stalks and butchers the occupants of multiple homes across the stretch of one lone country road as the residents prepare to watch the yearly college football bout between the Alabama-Mobile Seahawks and Tennessee A&M Commonwealth.

Screening with:

The Third Saturday in October

A lost slasher film from the golden age of the slasher genre. October 1979. Ricky Dean Logan is a man on a mission. Years ago, he lost a child at the hands of a spree killer, and as that killer escapes Death Row, Ricky Dean throws himself in the line of fire to stop him from killing again as the killer preys upon a group of friends gathered to watch a college football game.

Warm Blood

Director: Rick Charnoski

Country: United States; Running Time: 96 min

Red, a runaway in the 1980s, returns to the outskirts of her NorCal hometown to track down her wayward father and falls in with a young drifter.

Xanadu (1980)

Director: Robert Greenwald

Country: United States; Running Time: 96 min

A struggling artist living in Los Angeles meets a girl who may hold the key to his happiness.


DOCUMENTARY FEATURES

A Life On The Farm

Director: Oscar Harding

Country: United States; Running Time: 75 min

When filmmaker Oscar Harding’s grandfather passed away in the rural English county of Somerset, his family inherited an extraordinary video tape – a feature-length home movie from neighbour Charles Carson, which can best be described as “Monty Python meets The Texas Chainsaw Massacre”.  A Life on the Farm is an exploration and celebration of Charles Carson and his movies, rescued from obscurity, which present a moving and laugh-out-loud document of a time and place in danger of being lost to history.

A Run For More

Director: Ray Whitehouse

Country: United States; Running Time: 82 min

Growing up, Frankie Gonzales-Wolfe learned to be a fighter, but never imagined having a chance to make history as the first openly elected transgender official in Texas. Unfolding amidst an onslaught of trans legal attacks, A Run for More immerses viewers on Frankie’s journey as she finds her voice, questions her relationship to community, and tries to win an election.

A Walk With Joey

Director: Dana Lynn Falletta, J. Neil Bloomer

Country: United States; Running Time: 63 min

A documentary of the unlikely friendship between Joey Hale and Lionel “Little Train” James – the former Auburn/NFL Football player. This inspirational story begins with tragedy and details the impact on each other’s life.

All Man: The International Male Story

Directors: Bryan Darling and Jesse Finley Reed

Country: United States; Running Time: 83 min

A nostalgic and colorful peek behind the pages and personalities of International Male, one of the most ubiquitous and sought-after mail-order catalogs of the ’80s and ’90s.

The Automat

Director: Lisa Hurwitz

Country: United States; Running Time: 79 min

The Automat tells the 100-year story of the iconic restaurant chain Horn & Hardart, the inspiration for Starbucks, where generations of Americans ate and drank coffee together at communal tables. From the perspective of former customers entertainer Mel Brooks, Starbucks founder Howard Schultz, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Secretary of State Colin Powell, the Horns, the Hardarts, and key employees – we watch a business climb to its peak success and then grapple with fast food in a forever changed America.

Bad Axe

Director: David Siev

Country: United States; Running Time: 100 min

A real-time portrait of 2020 unfolds as an Asian-American family in Trump’s rural America fights to keep their restaurant and American dream alive in the face of a pandemic, Neo-Nazis, and generational scars from the Cambodian Killing Fields.

Screens with:

Last Days of August

Directors:Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck, Robert Machoian 

13 Minutes • Doc Short

Does a town still exist if nearly everyone has died or left? Using the photobook aesthetic, filmmakers Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck and Robert Machoian explore some nearly abandoned prairie towns of Nebraska and meditate on the blurred lines between still photography and cinema.

Battleground

Director: Cynthia Lowen

Country: United States; Running Time: 105 min

Battleground is an urgently timely window into the intersection of abortion and politics in America, following three women who lead formidable anti-abortion organizations to witness the enormous influence they wield. As the nation faces the end of Roe, the film also depicts those on the front lines of the fierce fight to maintain access.

Billion Dollar Babies

Director: Andrew Jenks

Country: United States; Running Time: 80 min

The True Story of the Cabbage Patch Kids

Black Mothers Love & Resist

Director: Débora Souza Silva

Country: United States; Running Time: 102 min

Wanda Johnson and Angela Williams, mothers of young Black men victimized by police brutality, come together and build a network of community-led support, mutual aid, and healing in this documentary spanning Oakland’s Fruitvale to the American South. Long before George Floyd’s murder and the BLM protests in 2020, Oscar Grant’s 2009 fateful encounter with law enforcement on a BART platform seeded public awareness and cultural consciousness of systemic racism and its discontents. Paying forward lessons learned and advocating against anti-Black violence in memory of her son, Oscar, Wanda Johnson holds space for Angela Williams, whose teen son, Ulysses, survives a police encounter in Troy, Alabama, living to tell his story. Radical empathy fuels this timely exposé.

Body Parts

Director: Kristy Guevara-Flanagan

Country: United States; Running Time: 90 min

Body Parts traces the evolution of “sex” on-screen from a woman’s perspective, uncovering the uncomfortable realities behind some of the most iconic scenes in cinema history and celebrating the bold creators leading the way for change.

Cat Daddies

Director: Mye Hoang

Country: United States; Running Time: 89 min

A heartwarming collective portrait of eight unique men whose lives have been changed by their love for cats. Some of these men will navigate the unprecedented challenges of 2020 with the help of these feline friends.

Chop & Steele

Directors: Berndt Mader, Ben Steinbauer

Country: United States; Running Time: 77 min

When childhood friends Nick Prueher and Joe Pickett start booking their gag strongman routine on unsuspecting morning news shows, their pranks end up going viral, landing them in federal court with a vengeful media conglomerate.

Color of Care

Director: Yance Ford

Country: United States; Running Time: 50 min

Color of Care chronicles how people of color suffer from systemically substandard healthcare. COVID-19 exposed what they have long understood and lived: they do not receive the same level of care. The film traces the origins of racial health disparities to practices that began during slavery and continue today. Using moving personal testimony, expert interviews, and disturbing data the film reveals the impact of racism on health, serving as an urgent warning of what must be done to save lives.

Etowah

Director: Daniel Fox

Country: United States; Running Time: 120 min

By his own admission Duquette Johnston has lived a “wild, incredible life,” but even that might be underselling the 25-year journey that’s taken him from the spotlight with breakout 90’s indie band Verbena all the way down to the Etowah County Correctional Facility and then back to Birmingham, opening a clothing store in Woodlawn and releasing a critically acclaimed new record this year.

The Guardians (2018)

Director: Billie Mintz

Country: United States; Running Time: 104 min

An encore screening of the 2018 Sidewalk Official Selection The Guardians. An investigative documentary that examines the systemic abuse of elderly people in Las Vegas, Nevada exposing a cautionary tale where some of our society’s most vulnerable citizens are robbed of their life savings and freedom.

Jimmy in Saigon

Director: Peter McDowell

Country: United States; Running Time: 89 min

Director Peter McDowell chronicles the story of Jim, his eldest brother, and a Vietnam War veteran. In 1972, when Jim was 24 and Peter was only 5, Jim died under mysterious circumstances while living as a civilian in Saigon. Through over 200 of Jim’s letters, candid interviews with Jim’s friends and family, and filming of the truth-seeking journey that led him across the United States, Vietnam, and France, Peter creates an elegiac work that examines grief, family secrets, war, drug use, sexuality, and healing, amounting to a celebration of a short but powerful life.

Keep the Cameras Rolling: The Pedro Zamora Way

Director: William T. Horner & Stacey Woelfel

Country: United States; Running Time: 98 min

The story of Pedro Zamora, the charming young activist who transformed the face of AIDS in America by allowing MTV’s REAL WORLD to chronicle his joy, his influence, and his journey with a disease that would ultimately kill him.

Lover, Beloved

Director: Michael Tully

Country: United States; Running Time: 78 min

Suzanne Vega reinterprets two talks from Carson McCullers.

Loving Highsmith

Director: Eva Vitija

Country: United States; Running Time: 83 min

Based on Patricia Highsmith’s personal writings and accounts of her family and lovers, the film casts new light on the famous thriller writer’s life and oeuvre, permeated by themes of love and its defining influence on identity.

Make Me Famous

Director: Brian Vincent

Country: United States; Running Time: 93 min

A madcap romp through the 1980’s NYC art scene amid the colorful career of painter, Edward Brezinski, hell-bent on making it. Filmed in NYC, Detroit, San Francisco, Ireland, Berlin and the Cote d’Azur.

Manda Bala (Send A Bullet) (2007)

Director: Jason Kohn

Country: United States, Brazil; Running Time: 85 min

An examination of corruption and class warfare in Brazil as told through the stories of a wealthy businessman, a plastic surgeon who assists kidnapping victims and a politician whose income relies on a frog farm.

McEnroe

Director: Barney Douglas

Country: United States; Running Time: 104 min

John McEnroe finally tells his side of his storied career and performances on the court.

Mija

Director: Isabel Castro

Country: United States; Running Time: 85 min

Follows Doris Muñoz, who began a career in music talent management and met Jacks Haupt, an auspicious young singer, and both share the ever-present guilt of being the first American-born members of their undocumented families.

Nothing Compares

Director: Kathryn Ferguson

Country: United States; Running Time: 97 min

The story of Sinéad O’Connor’s rise to worldwide fame, and how her iconoclastic personality resulted in her exile from the pop mainstream. Focusing on prophetic words and deeds across a six-year period (1987-1993), the film reflects on the legacy of this fearless trailblazer, through a contemporary feminist lens.

Nothing Lasts Forever

Director: Jason Kohn

Country: United States; Running Time: 87 min

Hidden from public view, a war is raging inside the diamond industry. When filmmaker Jason Kohn infiltrates this highly secretive world, he uncovers a vast, far reaching crime that threatens the value of every diamond ever mined. At stake is nothing less than the universal symbol of love and commitment – the engagement ring. Featuring some of the most colorful and powerful industry insiders,

The Pez Outlaw

Directors: Amy Bandlien Storkel, Bryan Storkel

Country: United States; Running Time: 85 min

There was a period of time in the 90s when pez dispensers were worth more, gram-for-gram, than cocaine or even gold. During this magical time, a small town farmer and factory worker lived his wildest dreams, smuggling pez dispensers into the USA from Eastern Europe and making millions of dollars. It was all wonderful until his arch-nemesis, the Pezident, decided to destroy him. This is the incredible fish-out-of-water story of Steve Glew, the “Pez Outlaw.”

The Real Estate Mixtape

Director: Malik Yoba

Country: United States; Running Time: 100 min

The Real Estate Mixtape is an episodic, docu-series that follows actor, filmmaker and real estate developer, Malik Yoba, as he pursues his first commercial real estate (CRE) deal in New York. As the founder and CEO of YOBA Development, Malik, along with a diverse group of young, aspiring professionals interested in learning about the CRE industry, journey the often opaque world of CRE development. Malik will provide them awareness, access and advocacy as he works to navigate and secure his first deal.

Refuge

Directors: Din Blankenship, Erin Bernhardt

Country: United States; Running Time: 78 min

Refuge is a film about love and fear in the American South. Chris Buckley is a husband, father, veteran, and until recently, a leader in the KKK. He began hating Muslims when the planes hit the twin towers on 9/11, but is forced to confront his hate when he receives a text message from Muslim refugee, Dr. Heval Kelli. Heval lives in Clarkston, Georgia, a town that has welcomed refugees from around the world for over 40 years and is known as the most ethnically diverse square mile in America. Clarkston residents have survived persecution in their home countries, and now they find themselves threatened by a new kind of hate – American white nationalism. Will Chris overcome his hate or become a violent extremist like those he fought overseas? Can Heval and his town of refugees heal the hate they once survived in their home countries?

Searchers

Director: Pacho Velez

Country: United States; Running Time: 81 min

Alternately humorous and touching, Searchers draws on encounters with a diverse set of New Yorkers as they navigate their preferred dating apps, searching for their special someone.

The Smell Of Money

Director: Shawn Bannon

Country: United States; Running Time: 84 min

A century after her grandfather claimed his freedom from slavery, Elsie Herring and her rural North Carolina community fight the world’s largest pork corporation for their freedom to enjoy fresh air, clean water, and a life without the stench of manure.

Sophia

Director: Jon Kasbe & Crystal Moselle

Country: United States; Running Time: 89 min

This stirring and visually immersive documentary brings us inside the spirited pursuits of David Hanson, a restless inventor aiming to perfect the world’s most life-like A.I.

Subject

Directors: Jennifer Tiexiera, Camilla Hall

Country: United States; Running Time: 90 min

Discover how the subjects of some of your favorite documentaries — including The Wolfpack, The Staircase, Capturing the Friedmans and Hoop Dreams — were affected by sudden fame in the aftermath of their films’ release. Subject revisits the “stars” of these famous films to have a conversation about documentary ethics and  filmmaker responsibility in a powerful film documentary fans won’t want to miss.

The Sun Rises In The East

Director: Tayo Giwa

Country: United States; Running Time: 58 min

The Sun Rises in The East chronicles the birth, rise and legacy of The East, a pan-African cultural organization founded in 1969 by teens and young adults in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Led by educator and activist Jitu Weusi, The East embodied Black self-determination, building more than a dozen institutions, including its own African-centered school, food co-op, newsmagazine, publisher, record label, restaurant, clothing shop and bookstore.

The Thief Collector

Director: Allison Otto

Country: United States; Running Time: 93 min

It was one of the most audacious and puzzling art crimes of a generation: the 1985 theft of Willem de Kooning’s famous painting, “Woman Ochre.” 

Three Minutes – A Lengthening

Director: Bianca Stigter

Country: United States; Running Time: 69 min

A snippet of 16mm film offers an emotionally charged, meditative glimpse into the lives of the unsuspecting Jewish citizens of a small Polish village at the precipice of World War II.

Unrivaled

Directors: Norman Jetmundsen, David Crews

Country: United States; Running Time: 60 min

In 1899 Sewanee’s mountaintop football team played the South’s first 12 game season. They went 12-0 and, incredibly, traveled 2,500 miles by steam locomotive, playing an astonishing 5 games in 6 days. The story of the Sewanee Tigers and their season have all the hallmarks of fiction. Yet, as Sewanee Vice-Chancellor, John McCardell, has noted: “It’s more than lore — it’s true.” Unrivaled chronicles the incredible story of the Iron Men of 1899 and their historic season. 


NARRATIVE SHORTS

A Cartoon of a Cat Sleeping

Director: Randall Christopher

Country: United States; Running Time: 7 min

A Fistful of Lead

Director: Dempsey Lee Birmingham III

Country: United States; Running Time: 12 min

A Nice Little Story

Director: Tyler Ross

Country: United States; Running Time: 8 min

Admit One

Director: Emma Aikman

Country: United States; Running Time: 8 min

After (A Love Story)

Director: Clare Cooney

Country: United States; Running Time: 14 min

Allie’s Out

Director: Akil B. Buggs

Country: United States; Running Time: 11 min

Ava

Director: Marcus January

Country: United States; Running Time: 9 min

The Bake Steal

Director: Wil Deusner

Country: United States; Running Time: 16 min

Baking Bad

Directors: Ben Swearingen, Nathan Fisher, Caroline McKenzie

Country: United States; Running Time: 16 min

Bite Me

Director: Mike Cunliffe

Country: United States; Running Time: 5 min

Blackout

Director: Andrew Reid

Country: United States; Running Time: 7 min

Blossoming

Director: Lauren Musgrove

Country: United States; Running Time: 9 min

Box on the Hill

Director: Erik Odom

Country: United States; Running Time: 8 min

Brick By Brick

Director: Tyler Downey

Country: United States; Running Time: 4 min

Bygone

Director: Mickey Tetrov

Country: Spain; Running Time: 8 min

The Cahaba River Killer

Director: Rico Shay

Country: United States; Running Time: 5 min

Canceled

Director: Christopher Guerrero

Country: United States; Running Time: 5 min

Ceaseless

Director: Benjamin Johnson

Country: United States; Running Time: 5 min

Cock N’ Bull 3

Director: Nathan Adloff

Country: United States; Running Time: 24 min

The Contract Musical

Director: Chris Cole

Country: United States; Running Time: 7 min

Convection

Director: Stacey Davis

Country: United States; Running Time: 9 min

Cruise

Director: Sam Rudykoff

Country: Canada; Running Time: 7 min

Deep Fears

Director: Ryan Chu

Country: United States; Running Time: 3 min

Desmond’s Not Here Anymore

Director: Mmabatho Montsho

Country: United States; Running Time: 16 min

The Devil Will Run

Director: Noah Glenn

Country: United States; Running Time: 11 min

Discovery

Director: Ashley P Causey

Country: United States; Running Time: 12 min

Don’t Be Scared

Director: Richard O’Connor

Country: United States; Running Time: 3 min

Don’t You Go Nowhere

Director: Bryan Poyser

Country: United States; Running Time: 8 min

Dot

Director: Tiffany Frances

Country: United States; Running Time: 11 min

El Rey

Director: Jonathan D London

Country: United States; Running Time: 9 min

Empty Handed

Director: Yasmin Nearor

Country: United States; Running Time: 10 min

The Event

Directors: Frank Mosley, Hugo De Sousa

Country: United States; Running Time: 12 min

Face To Face

Director: Sarah Coffee

Country: United States; Running Time: 5 min

First Drag

Director: Elliott Andreas Moe

Country: United States; Running Time: 11 min

Free Noir Papillon

Director: Lev Omelchenko

Country: United States; Running Time: 11 min

future boys

Director: Julian Clark

Country: United States; Running Time: 12 min

The F-Word

Directors: Alex Cannon, Paul Cannon

Country: United States; Running Time: 7 min

Galileo

Director: Ryan Gentle, Austin Quarles

Country: United States; Running Time: 13 min

Half-Day

Director: Morgan Mathews

Country: United States; Running Time: 17 min

How’dy!

Director: Keene McRae

Country: United States; Running Time: 20 min

I Did Believe In Her, “The Lady”

Director: Nick Adrian

Country: United States; Running Time: 9 min

In Memory Of

Director: Rico Shay

Country: United States; Running Time: 20 min

In Sickness and in Health

Director: Sarah Smick

Country: United States; Running Time: 11 min

In The Flesh

Director: Daphne Gardner

Country: United States; Running Time: 13 min

In-Between

Directors: Andrew Scofield, Tre Butler

Country: United States; Running Time: 16 min

Keep The Bugs Out Of My Soup!!!

Director: Tyrone Evans Clark

Country: United States; Running Time: 3 min

La Jaca

Director: Tanner Matthews

Country: United States; Running Time: 11 min

The Last F*cking Straw!

Director: Jason Michael Anthony

Country: United States; Running Time: 3 min

Last Request

Director: Daniel Thomas King

Country: United States; Running Time: 15 min

Lights, Camera, Covid

Director: Gal Ron

Country: United States; Running Time: 10 min

little trumpet

Director: Megan Trufant Tillman

Country: United States; Running Time: 26 min

Mom!

Director: Reagan N Swindler

Country: United States; Running Time: 6 min

Nikolai and the curse of the Kobold

Director: Amos Captain II

Country: United States; Running Time: 8 min

North Star

Director: P.J. Palmer

Country: United States; Running Time: 30 min

Nova Scotia Man

Director: Matthew Brdlik

Country: United States; Running Time: 4 min

The Perfect First Date

Director: Christopher J Hall

Country: United States; Running Time: 13 min

Phantom Tension

Director: Dennis Calvert

Country: United States; Running Time: 7 min

The Phoenix

Director: Regina Pigsley

Country: United States; Running Time: 15 min

Possum

Director: Erin Jackson Clark

Country: United States; Running Time: 8 min

Santa Doesn’t Need Your Help

Directors: Kevin Maher, Joe Dator

Country: United States; Running Time: 10 min

The Seal of Death

Director: Harris Josey

Country: United States; Running Time: 11 min

She Dreams At Sunrise

Director: Camrus Johnson

Country: United States; Running Time: 11 min

Shipwreck

Director: Lisa Cole

Country: United States; Running Time: 10 min

Shitshow

Director: Ryan Lilienfield

Country: United States; Running Time: 4 min

The Shocklosers’ Odyssey

Director: Zach Swiatocha

Country: United States; Running Time: 27 min

Shower Boys

Director: Christian Zetterberg

Country: Sweden; Running Time: 9 min

Skim

Director: William Pisciotta

Country: United States; Running Time: 18 min

Space Race

Director: Shane Dioneda

Country: United States; Running Time: 6 min

Spin

Directors: Brandi Nicole, Jen West

Country: United States; Running Time: 10 min

Spin

Director: Lisa Marie Tedesco

Country: United States; Running Time: 17 min

Steps

Director: Blake Winston Rice

Country: United States; Running Time: 15 min

Symptomatic

Director: Jay Burleson

Country: United States; Running Time: 4 min

Teddy Too-Big

Director: Suki-Rose Etter

Country: United States; Running Time: 2 min

Ten & Two

Director: Travis Wood

Country: United States; Running Time: 5 min

Things We Feel But Do Not Say

Director: Lauren Grant

Country: Canada; Running Time: 10 min

This Is How It Ends

Director: Gal Ron

Country: United States; Running Time: 13 min

Too Rough

Director: Sean Lìonadh

Country: United Kingdom; Running Time: 15 min

Turn Around

Director: Kyle Mackenzie Sullivan

Country: United States; Running Time: 1 min

Type 2

Director: Caroline McKenzie

Country: United States; Running Time: 5 min

unfinished

Director: Dailey Moore

Country: Czech Republic; Running Time: 8 min

Uno Royale

Director: Nathan Fisher, Kate Edmonds

Country: United States; Running Time: 12 min

UPYA

Director: Maxence Cazorla

Country: France; Running Time: 3 min

We All Die Alone

Director: Jonathan Hammond

Country: United States; Running Time: 14 min

When We Arrive As Flowers

Director: Susan C OBrien

Country: United States; Running Time: 5 min


DOCUMENTARY SHORTS

54 Miles To Home

Director: Claire Haughey

Country: United States; Running Time: 26 min

A Central Part of Who I Am

Director: Gabriel Kalil Talley

Country: United States; Running Time: 8 min

A Million Dollar Journey

Director: Nick Golden, Dawson Estes

Country: United States; Running Time: 11 min

A New Normal

Director: Britney Le and Victoria Sutton

Country: United States; Running Time: 10 min

Aftermath

Director: Hailey Millar

Country: United States; Running Time: 39 min

The American Frontier

Director: Edward Frumkin

Country: United States; Running Time: 16 min

Another World Right Here

Director: Sage Lucia

Country: United States; Running Time: 15 min

Aqueducts

Director: Álvaro Martín Sanz

Country: France; Running Time: 8 min

Ashima

Director: Dillon M. Banda

Country: Hong Kong; Running Time: 7 min

Barriers to Entry

Directors: Ritika Samant, Connor Campbell

Country: United States; Running Time: 10 min

Baseball’s Living Museum

Directors: Jordan Blankenship, Chelsie Budd

Country: United States; Running Time: 10 min

Betsy & Irv

Director: Nicole Noren

Country: United States; Running Time: 16 min

Brave Space

Director: Lillie Ben Harris

Country: United States; Running Time: 13 min

Breast Friend

Director: Aysha Wax

Country: United States; Running Time: 3 min

CANS Can’t Stand

Directors: Matt Nadel, Megan Plotka

Country: United States; Running Time: 19 min

Chasin’ Butterflies

Directors: Joshua Harding, Adam Hobbs, Matt Klug

Country: United States; Running Time: 19 min

Conducting Life

Director: Diane Moore

Country: United States; Running Time: 31 min

Dance To Me

Director: Sabrina Palmer

Country: United States; Running Time: 10 min

Decisions

Directors: Donte Johnson, Katherine Nguyen

Country: United States; Running Time: 12 min

Deerfoot of the Diamond

Director: Lance Edmands

Country: United States; Running Time: 27 min

Deerwoods Deathtrap

Director: James P Gannon

Country: United States; Running Time: 9 min

Drexell & Honeybees

Director: Angel Caro

Country: United States; Running Time: 6 min

Elvis of Laos

Director: Van Ditthavong

Country: United States; Running Time: 12 min

Exit 238

Director: Henry Davis

Country: United States; Running Time: 14 min

Favorite Daughter

Director: Dana Reilly

Country: United States; Running Time: 19 min

Heal The River

Director: Paulina Sobczak

Country: United States; Running Time: 22 min

If Cities Could Dance: J-Setting Atlanta

Director: Fr3deR1cK Jerome Taylor

Country: United States; Running Time: 5 min

Iron Sharpens Iron

Director: John Gallen

Country: United States; Running Time: 12 min

The JLB: 100 Years of Service and Impact

Director: Jenna M. Bedsole

Country: United States; Running Time: 32 min

Lalito 10

Director: Jordan Matthew Horowitz

Country: United States; Running Time: 17 min

The Last Last Hike

Director: Céline François

Country: United States; Running Time: 20 min

Liquid Gold

Director: William Green

Country: United States; Running Time: 5 min

Living While Black in Japan

Directors: Keith Bedford and Shiho Fukada

Country: United States, Japan; Running Time: 15 min

The Meaning of Movement

Director: Antonio R. Garcia

Country: United States; Running Time: 4 min

Monograph: Amari Ansari

Director: Kelsey Harrison Ianuzzi

Country: United States; Running Time: 7 min

Monograph: Chris Lawson

Director: Lisa Cordes

Country: United States; Running Time: 7 min

More Than I Remember

Director: Amy Bench

Country: United States; Running Time: 14 min

Mr. Ashley Lived Here

Director: Hannah Timmons

Country: United States; Running Time: 27 min

My Duduś

Director: Tom Krawczyk

Country: United States; Running Time: 8 min

The Net Makers

Director: Hannah Myers Lindgren

Country: United States; Running Time: 17 min

One Heck of a Game

Director: Karen DeLuca Stephens

Country: United States; Running Time: 18 min

The Originals

Directors: Cristina Maria Costantini, Alfie Kim Koetter

Country: United States; Running Time: 10 min

Pulled Over/Pulled Under

Director: Anissa Latham

Country: United States; Running Time: 17 min

Resilience

Director: Raven Shaw

Country: United States; Running Time: 10 min

Shut Up And Paint

Directors: Alex Ramirez-Mallis and Titus Kaphar

Country: United States; Running Time: 20 min

Smile Little Ladybug

Director: Laura Asherman

Country: United States; Running Time: 17 min

Soldier

Director: Justin Zimmerman

Country: United States; Running Time: 22 min

The Space Between You and Me

Director: Lily Ahree Siegel

Country: United Kingdom; Running Time: 23 min

Stories Within

Director: PJ Raval

Country: United States; Running Time: 11 min

Stranger at the Gate

Director: Joshua Seftel

Country: United States; Running Time: 29 min

Surviving Clotilda

Director: Olivia Grillo, Kathryn Jamieson

Country: United States; Running Time: 26 min

Surviving The Holocaust: A Conversation with Dr. Robert May

Director: Kim Garner

Country: United States; Running Time: 27 min

Sweet Home Alabama

Director: Frederick Murphy

Country: United States; Running Time: 18 min

Tin Sandwich Blues: A Musical Journey

Director: Erik Jambor

Country: United States; Running Time: 10 min

Underdogs

Director: Alex Astrella

Country: United States; Running Time: 15 min

Valentine

Director: Sinead Keirans

Country: United States; Running Time: 7 min

The Village That Once Was

Director: Tyrrell Shaffner

Country: United States; Running Time: 31 min

Visions

Director: Karina Lomelin Ripper

Country: United States; Running Time: 10 min

Wastewater: A Tale of Two Cities

Director: Sarah Franke

Country: United States; Running Time: 22 min

What They’ve Been Taught

Director: Brit Hensel

Country: United States; Running Time: 9 min

What We’ll Never Know

Director: Lauren Ready

Country: United States; Running Time: 16 min

When I Get Grown – Reflections of a Freedom Rider

Director: Chris Preitauer

Country: United States; Running Time: 32 min

Who Am I Called To Be

Director: Aniya Kinnion

Country: United States; Running Time: 10 min

WINN

Director: Joseph East, Erica Tanamachi

Country: United States; Running Time: 17 min

The Wintering Grounds

Director: Jeff Springer

Country: United States; Running Time: 23 min


ANIMATED SHORTS

A Prayer for My Mother: The Eva Brettler Story

Directors: Ruben Barrett, Raisa Effress, Sophia Evans, Lauren Fuchs, Katie Hadsock-Longarzo, Ian Kim, Eve Levy, Timothy Lim, Asher Meron, Marlon Ochoa, Bella Rahi, Hank Schoen, Olivia Uzielli

Country: United States; Running Time: 10 min

The Amazing Airwalker

Director: Steve McClean

Country: United States; Running Time: 6 min

Andy

Director: James Wheless

Country: United States; Running Time: 8 min

Beacon

Director: Clarke Stallworth

Country: United States; Running Time: 3 min

Blow Out

Director: Lucas Fraga Pacheco

Country: United States; Running Time: 6 min

Demi’s Panic

Director: Bill Plympton

Country: United States; Running Time: 10 min

Five Cents

Director: Aaron Hughes

Country: United States; Running Time: 5 min

Footprints in the Forest

Director: Juhaidah Joemin, Sandra Khoo

Country: Malaysia; Running Time: 18 min

The Girl Behind The Mirror

Director: Iuri Moreno

Country: Brazil; Running Time: 12 min

In The Mountains

Director: Wally Chung

Country: United States; Running Time: 6 min

Letters In The Wind

Director: Anirudh Aditya

Country: United States; Running Time: 5 min

Memento Mori

Director: Paul O’Flanagan

Country: Ireland; Running Time: 9 min

Morning’s With My Good Sis, Black Bird

Director: Mike McCraw

Country: United States; Running Time: 3 min

Paragons of Boulevard

Director: Yamin Rasheed

Country: Maldives; Running Time: 7 min

The Park Bench

Director: Rob Edwards

Country: United States; Running Time: 4 min

Qing Qong

Directors: Bele Marx & Gilles Mussard

Country: Austria; Running Time: 7 min

Seven Grams

Directors: Karim Ben Khelifa, TT Hernandez

Country: France; Running Time: 8 min

EPISODIC

Broken News

Director: Adam Schwartz, Luke Porter

Country: United States; Running Time: 32 min

LOST/FOUND, Season 1, Episode 1

Director: Brian Christopher White

Country: United States; Running Time: 10 min

Monograph: Adrienne Darnell

Director: Kelsey Harrison Ianuzzi

Country: United States; Running Time: 7 min

Night

Director: John D’Aquino

Country: United States; Running Time: 34 min

That Picnic Show with Nancy

Director: Nancy Tran

Country: United States; Running Time: 10 min

Updowns S.1 Ep 1 “Pilot”

Director: Tyson D Evans, Rebecca Brooks

Country: United States; Running Time: 16 min

Wipe Me Away

Director: Eric Piccoli

Country: Canada; Running Time: 11 min


TEEN FILMMAKER

38th Parallel

Director: Ejun Mary Hong

Country: United States; Running Time: 4 min

Bird Lady

Director: Carter Rostron

Country: United States; Running Time: 17 min

Boxy

Director: King Smith

Country: United States; Running Time: 5 min

cowpoke

Director: nicole hatton

Country: United States; Running Time: 3 min

Decision Day

Director: Goodman Murphy-Smith

Country: United States; Running Time: 9 min

Devil Bean

Director: Jessica Nipperess

Country: Australia; Running Time: 11 min

Is It My Fault?

Director: Benjamin Pacheco

Country: United States; Running Time: 13 min

Letters from an Avalanche

Director: Palavi Ahuja

Country: United States; Running Time: 16 min

Masterful

Director: Jason Leeper

Country: United States; Running Time: 13 min

Numb

Director: Chris Chaei

Country: United States; Running Time: 2 min

On the Second Floor

Director: Marco Araujo

Country: Spain; Running Time: 19 min

Reaper

Director: Eva Ulreich

Country: United States; Running Time: 4 min

SEM;COLON

Director: Anna Claire Hathorn

Country: United States; Running Time: 30 min

Those Who Run

Director: Nick Milczarczyk

Country: Canada; Running Time: 14 min

Uncommon Application

Director: Ris Igrec

Country: United States; Running Time: 17 min

When It Started

Director: Sydney Noelle Stephenson

Country: United States; Running Time: 6 min

Why Wouldn’t I Be

Director: Ella Greenwood

Country: United Kingdom; Running Time: 17 min

Wuhan Driver

Director: Tiger Ji

Country: United States; Running Time: 14 min


MUSIC VIDEOS

Angel Hilson – Just This Once

Director: Ken Stevenson

Country: United States; Running Time: 4 min

Aquarian Devils – Aquarian Devils

Director: Kamara Thomas

Country: United States; Running Time: 4 min

Between There and Here – Hrishikesh Hirway (feat. Yo-Yo Ma)

Directors: Prashanti Aswani and Hrishikesh Hirway

Country: United States; Running Time: 5 min

Dalby – Angelic

Director: Video Rahim

Country: United States; Running Time: 4 min

Don’t Deserve This – Yasmina

Director: Jivensley Alexis and Reece Daniels

Country: United States; Running Time: 3 min

Emily Rooker – Don’t Come Home

Director: Emily Rooker and Mitchell Carter

Country: United States; Running Time: 5 min

The Envied – Gondola Ride

Director: Alex Gibson

Country: United States; Running Time: 5 min

Gordy Bridgeford – Follow You

Director: John Utter

Country: United States; Running Time: 5 min

John Jupiter – The Plastic Outhouse

Director: John Jupiter

Country: United States; Running Time: 5 min

Jupie – Sandbox

Director: Jake Armstrong

Country: United States; Running Time: 3 min

Linqua Franqa – Bellringer

Director: Nolan Huber-Rhoades

Country: United States; Running Time: 5 min

Lule – Mood19

Director: Kevon Pryce

Country: United States; Running Time: 3 min

Malcolm McRae – Woman on the Move

Director: Keene McRae

Country: United States; Running Time: 4 min

Memphis Wilcox – Comeback

Director: Jason OBrien

Country: United States; Running Time: 6 min

Oliver Tree & Little Big – Turn It Up (feat. Tommy Cash)

Director: Oliver Tree, Alina Pasok Pasok, and Maxim Semyonov

Country: Russian Federation; Running Time: 4 min

Onry – 1955

Director: Martin Melnick

Country: United States; Running Time: 7 min

SÄYE SKYE – ADHD

Director: Sina Dolati

Country: Canada; Running Time: 5 min

Shovel – I. The Void

Director: Alexandros Papathanasopoulos

Country: Greece; Running Time: 6 min

Young Jahcee – GamGino

Director: J. Gino Cyrus

Country: United States; Running Time: 4 min

Zero Trust – Clouds

Director: Jeremiah Dickey

Country: United States; Running Time: 4 min

Sidewalk Film Festival 2022 now underway goes BIG with 250+ films and events