List of Sidewalk Film Festival Award Winners

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

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''

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 Award — Into 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Butterfly In The Sky - Directors: Bradford Thomason, Brett Whitcomb[9]

Descendant - Director: Margaret Brown

Bebe’s Kids (1992) - Director: Bruce W. Smith

Bootyology - Director: Joe Eddy

The Civil Dead - Director: Clay Tatum

Cyst - Director: Tyler Russell

Funny Pages - Director: Owen Kline

God’s Country - Director: Julian Higgins

God’s Creatures - Directors: Saela Davis & Anna Rose Holmer[10]

Good Girl Jane - Director: Sarah Elizabeth Mintz

The Integrity Of Joseph Chambers - Director: Robert Machoian

Jasmine Is A Star - Director: Jo Rochelle

The Karate Kid Part III (1989) - Director: John G. Avildsen

Our Father, The Devil (Mon Père, le Diabe) - Director: Ellie Foumbi

Peace In The Valley - Director: Tyler Riggs

Country: United States; Running Time: 88 min

Petit Mal - Director: Ruth Caudeli

Pretty Problems - Director: Kestrin Pantera[11]

Quantum Cowboys - Director: Geoff Marslett

Resurrection - Director: Andrew Semans

Retrograde - Director: Adrian Murray

Sleepaway Camp (1983) - Director: Robert Hiltzik

Spin Me Round - Director: Jeff Baena

The Third Saturday In October and The Third Saturday in October Part V Double Feature - Director: Jay Burleson

Warm Blood - Director: Rick Charnoski - Director: Robert Greenwald[12]

A Life On The Farm - Director: Oscar Harding

A Run For More - Director: Ray Whitehouse

A Walk With Joey - Director: Dana Lynn Falletta, J. Neil Bloomer

All Man: The International Male Story - Directors: Bryan Darling and Jesse Finley Reed

The Automat - Director: Lisa Hurwitz

Bad Axe - Director: David Siev

Last Days of August - Directors:Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck, Robert Machoian

Battleground - Director: Cynthia Lowen

Billion Dollar Babies - Director: Andrew Jenks

Black Mothers Love & Resist - Director: Débora Souza Silva

Body Parts - Director: Kristy Guevara-Flanagan

Cat Daddies - Director: Mye Hoang

Chop & Steele - Directors: Berndt Mader, Ben Steinbauer

Color of Care - Director: Yance Ford

Etowah - Director: Daniel Fox

The Guardians (2018) - Director: Billie Mintz

Jimmy in Saigon - Director: Peter McDowell

Keep the Cameras Rolling: The Pedro Zamora Way - Director: William T. Horner & Stacey Woelfel

Lover, Beloved - Director: Michael Tully

Loving Highsmith - Director: Eva Vitija

Make Me Famous - Director: Brian Vincent

Manda Bala (Send A Bullet) (2007) - Director: Jason Kohn

McEnroe - Director: Barney Douglas[9]

Mija - Director: Isabel Castro

Nothing Compares - Director: Kathryn Ferguson

Nothing Lasts Forever - Director: Jason Kohn

The Pez Outlaw - Directors: Amy Bandlien Storkel, Bryan Storkel

The Real Estate Mixtape - Director: Malik Yoba

Refuge - Directors: Din Blankenship, Erin Bernhardt

Searchers - Director: Pacho Velez

The Smell Of Money - Director: Shawn Bannon

Sophia - Director: Jon Kasbe & Crystal Moselle[11]

Subject - Directors: Jennifer Tiexiera, Camilla Hall

The Sun Rises in The East - Director: Tayo Giwa

The Thief Collector - Director: Allison Otto

Three Minutes – A Lengthening - Director: Bianca Stigter

Unrivaled - Directors: Norman Jetmundsen, David Crews

A Cartoon of a Cat Sleeping - Director: Randall Christopher

A Fistful of Lead - Director: Dempsey Lee Birmingham III

A Nice Little Story - Director: Tyler Ross

Admit One - Director: Emma Aikman[10]

After (A Love Story) - Director: Clare Cooney

Allie’s Out - Director: Akil B. Buggs

Ava - Director: Marcus January

The Bake Steal - Director: Wil Deusner

Baking Bad - Directors: Ben Swearingen, Nathan Fisher, Caroline McKenzie

Bite Me - Director: Mike Cunliffe

Blackout - Director: Andrew Reid

Blossoming - Director: Lauren Musgrove

Box on the Hill - Director: Erik Odom

Brick By Brick - Director: Tyler Downey

Bygone - Director: Mickey Tetrov

The Cahaba River Killer - Director: Rico Shay

Canceled - Director: Christopher Guerrero

Ceaseless - Director: Benjamin Johnson

Cock N’ Bull 3 - Director: Nathan Adloff

The Contract Musical - Director: Chris Cole[12]

Convection - Director: Stacey Davis

Cruise - Director: Sam Rudykoff

Deep Fears - Director: Ryan Chu

Desmond’s Not Here Anymore - Director: Mmabatho Montsho

The Devil Will Run - Director: Noah Glenn

Discovery - Director: Ashley P Causey

Don’t Be Scared - Director: Richard O’Connor

Don’t You Go Nowhere - Director: Bryan Poyser

Dot - Director: Tiffany Frances

El Rey - Director: Jonathan D London

Empty Handed - Director: Yasmin Nearor

The Event - Directors: Frank Mosley, Hugo De Sousa

Face To Face - Director: Sarah Coffee

First Drag - Director: Elliott Andreas Moe

Free Noir Papillon - Director: Lev Omelchenko

future boys - Director: Julian Clark[11]

The F-Word - Directors: Alex Cannon, Paul Cannon

Galileo - Director: Ryan Gentle, Austin Quarles

Half-Day - Director: Morgan Mathews

How’dy! - Director: Keene McRae

I Did Believe In Her, “The Lady” - Director: Nick Adrian

In Memory Of - Director: Rico Shay

In Sickness and in Health - Director: Sarah Smick

In The Flesh - Director: Daphne Gardner

In-Between - Directors: Andrew Scofield, Tre Butler

Keep The Bugs Out Of My Soup!!! - Director: Tyrone Evans Clark

La Jaca - Director: Tanner Matthews

The Last F*cking Straw! - Director: Jason Michael Anthony

Last Request - Director: Daniel Thomas King

Lights, Camera, Covid - Director: Gal Ron

little trumpet - Director: Megan Trufant Tillman

Mom! - Director: Reagan N Swindler

Nikolai and the curse of the Kobold - Director: Amos Captain II

North Star - Director: P.J. Palmer

Nova Scotia Man - Director: Matthew Brdlik

The Perfect First Date - Director: Christopher J Hall

Phantom Tension - Director: Dennis Calvert

The Phoenix - Director: Regina Pigsley

Possum - Director: Erin Jackson Clark

Santa Doesn’t Need Your Help - Directors: Kevin Maher, Joe Dator

The Seal of Death - Director: Harris Josey

She Dreams At Sunrise - Director: Camrus Johnson

Shipwreck - Director: Lisa Cole

Shitshow - Director: Ryan Lilienfield

The Shocklosers’ Odyssey - Director: Zach Swiatocha

Shower Boys - Director: Christian Zetterberg

Skim - Director: William Pisciotta

Space Race - Director: Shane Dioneda

Spin - Directors: Brandi Nicole, Jen West

Spin - Director: Lisa Marie Tedesco

Steps - Director: Blake Winston Rice

Symptomatic - Director: Jay Burleson[9]

Teddy Too-Big - Director: Suki-Rose Etter

Ten & Two - Director: Travis Wood

Things We Feel But Do Not Say - Director: Lauren Grant

This Is How It Ends - Director: Gal Ron

Too Rough - Director: Sean Lìonadh

Turn Around - Director: Kyle Mackenzie Sullivan

Type 2 - Director: Caroline McKenzie

unfinished - Director: Dailey Moore

Uno Royale - Director: Nathan Fisher, Kate Edmonds

UPYA - Director: Maxence Cazorla

We All Die Alone - Director: Jonathan Hammond

When We Arrive As Flowers - Director: Susan C OBrien

54 Miles To Home - Director: Claire Haughey

A Central Part of Who I Am - Director: Gabriel Kalil Talley

A Million Dollar Journey - Director: Nick Golden, Dawson Estes

A New Normal - Director: Britney Le and Victoria Sutton[12]

Aftermath - Director: Hailey Millar

The American Frontier - Director: Edward Frumkin

Another World Right Here - Director: Sage Lucia

Aqueducts - Director: Álvaro Martín Sanz

Ashima - Director: Dillon M. Banda

Barriers to Entry - Directors: Ritika Samant, Connor Campbell

Baseball’s Living Museum - Directors: Jordan Blankenship, Chelsie Budd

Betsy & Irv - Director: Nicole Noren

Brave Space - Director: Lillie Ben Harris

Breast Friend - Director: Aysha Wax

CANS Can’t Stand - Directors: Matt Nadel, Megan Plotka

Chasin’ Butterflies - Directors: Joshua Harding, Adam Hobbs, Matt Klug

Conducting Life - Director: Diane Moore

Dance To Me - Director: Sabrina Palmer

Decisions - Directors: Donte Johnson, Katherine Nguyen

Deerfoot of the Diamond - Director: Lance Edmands

Deerwoods Deathtrap - Director: James P Gannon[11]

Drexell & Honeybees - Director: Angel Caro

Elvis of Laos - Director: Van Ditthavong

Exit 238 - Director: Henry Davis

Favorite Daughter - Director: Dana Reilly

Heal The River - Director: Paulina Sobczak

If Cities Could Dance: J-Setting Atlanta - Director: Fr3deR1cK Jerome Taylor

Iron Sharpens Iron - Director: John Gallen

The JLB: 100 Years of Service and Impact - Director: Jenna M. Bedsole

Lalito 10 - Director: Jordan Matthew Horowitz

The Last Last Hike - Director: Céline François

Liquid Gold - Director: William Green

Living While Black in Japan - Directors: Keith Bedford and Shiho Fukada

The Meaning of Movement - Director: Antonio R. Garcia

Monograph: Amari Ansari - Director: Kelsey Harrison Ianuzzi

Monograph: Chris Lawson - Director: Lisa Cordes

More Than I Remember - Director: Amy Bench

Mr. Ashley Lived Here - Director: Hannah Timmons

My Duduś - Director: Tom Krawczyk[9]

The Net Makers - Director: Hannah Myers Lindgren

One Heck of a Game - Director: Karen DeLuca Stephens

The Originals - Directors: Cristina Maria Costantini, Alfie Kim Koetter

Pulled Over/Pulled Under - Director: Anissa Latham

Resilience - Director: Raven Shaw

Shut Up And Paint - Directors: Alex Ramirez-Mallis and Titus Kaphar

Smile Little Ladybug - Director: Laura Asherman

Soldier - Director: Justin Zimmerman

The Space Between You and Me - Director: Lily Ahree Siegel

Stories Within - Director: PJ Raval

Stranger at the Gate - Director: Joshua Seftel

Surviving Clotilda - Director: Olivia Grillo, Kathryn Jamieson

Surviving The Holocaust: A Conversation with Dr. Robert May - Director: Kim Garner

Sweet Home Alabama - Director: Frederick Murphy

Tin Sandwich Blues: A Musical Journey - Director: Erik Jambor

Underdogs - Director: Alex Astrella

Valentine - Director: Sinead Keirans

The Village That Once Was - Director: Tyrrell Shaffner

Visions - Director: Karina Lomelin Ripper

Wastewater: A Tale of Two Cities - Director: Sarah Franke

What They’ve Been Taught - Director: Brit Hensel

What We’ll Never Know - Director: Lauren Ready

When I Get Grown – Reflections of a Freedom Rider - Director: Chris Preitauer

Who Am I Called To Be - Director: Aniya Kinnion

WINN - Director: Joseph East, Erica Tanamachi

The Wintering Grounds - Director: Jeff Springer

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[11]

The Amazing Airwalker - Director: Steve McClean

Andy - Director: James Wheless

Beacon - Director: Clarke Stallworth

Blow Out - Director: Lucas Fraga Pacheco

Demi’s Panic - Director: Bill Plympton[10]

Five Cents - Director: Aaron Hughes

Footprints in the Forest - Director: Juhaidah Joemin, Sandra Khoo

The Girl Behind The Mirror - Director: Iuri Moreno

In The Mountains - Director: Wally Chung

Letters In The Wind - Director: Anirudh Aditya

Memento Mori - Director: Paul O’Flanagan

Morning’s With My Good Sis, Black Bird - Director: Mike McCraw

Paragons of Boulevard - Director: Yamin Rasheed

The Park Bench - Director: Rob Edwards

Qing Qong - Directors: Bele Marx & Gilles Mussard

Seven Grams - Directors: Karim Ben Khelifa, TT Hernandez

Broken News - Director: Adam Schwartz, Luke Porter

LOST/FOUND, Season 1, Episode 1 - Director: Brian Christopher White

Monograph: Adrienne Darnell - Director: Kelsey Harrison Ianuzzi

Night - Director: John D’Aquino

That Picnic Show with Nancy - Director: Nancy Tran[10]

Updowns S.1 Ep 1 “Pilot” - Director: Tyson D Evans, Rebecca Brooks

Wipe Me Away - Director: Eric Piccoli

38th Parallel - Director: Ejun Mary Hong

Bird Lady - Director: Carter Rostron

Boxy - Director: King Smith

cowpoke - Director: nicole hatton

Decision Day - Director: Goodman Murphy-Smith

Devil Bean - Director: Jessica Nipperess

Is It My Fault? - Director: Benjamin Pacheco

Letters from an Avalanche - Director: Palavi Ahuja

Masterful - Director: Jason Leeper[12]

Numb - Director: Chris Chaei

On the Second Floor - Director: Marco Araujo

Reaper - Director: Eva Ulreich

SEM;COLON - Director: Anna Claire Hathorn

Those Who Run - Director: Nick Milczarczyk

Uncommon Application - Director: Ris Igrec

When It Started - Director: Sydney Noelle Stephenson

Why Wouldn’t I Be - Director: Ella Greenwood

Wuhan Driver - Director: Tiger Ji

Angel Hilson – Just This Once - Director: Ken Stevenson

Aquarian Devils – Aquarian Devils - Director: Kamara Thomas

Between There and Here – Hrishikesh Hirway (feat. Yo-Yo Ma) - Directors: Prashanti Aswani and Hrishikesh Hirway

Dalby – Angelic - Director: Video Rahim

Don’t Deserve This – Yasmina - Director: Jivensley Alexis and Reece Daniels

Emily Rooker – Don’t Come Home - Director: Emily Rooker and Mitchell Carter

The Envied – Gondola Ride - Director: Alex Gibson[9]

Gordy Bridgeford – Follow You - Director: John Utter

John Jupiter – The Plastic Outhouse - Director: John Jupiter

Jupie – Sandbox - Director: Jake Armstrong

Linqua Franqa – Bellringer - Director: Nolan Huber-Rhoades

Lule – Mood19 - Director: Kevon Pryce

Malcolm McRae – Woman on the Move - Director: Keene McRae

Memphis Wilcox – Comeback - Director: Jason OBrien

Oliver Tree & Little Big – Turn It Up (feat. Tommy Cash) - Director: Oliver Tree, Alina Pasok Pasok, and Maxim Semyonov

Onry – 1955 - Director: Martin Melnick

SÄYE SKYE – ADHD - Director: Sina Dolati

Shovel – I. The Void - Director: Alexandros Papathanasopoulos

Young Jahcee – GamGino - Director: J. Gino Cyrus[11]

Zero Trust – Clouds - Director: Jeremiah Dickey