Life & Liberty Shorts: Freedom in Practice

Documentaries about those who have worked and fought to gain, preserve, and practice their rights and freedom.

  • 91 minutes
  • Sea Song

    Directed by An-Phuong Ly

    17:58 • USA Alabama Premiere

    LIFE & LIBERTY, WOMEN IN FILM

    Finding solace in the shared experience of their youth, the last remaining South Vietnamese naval officers trained by the US during the Vietnam War reconnect with the few people in the world who understand the complexities that shaped them.


    Honor Song

    Directed by Ryan Begay

    19:35 • USA

    LIFE & LIBERTY

    Celebrating the long history and service of Native Americans in the United States military, veterans of the Southwest share personal stories and perspectives of their military service and their cultural experience.


    60 Years of Selma

    Directed by Jori Parson

    16:04 • USA Alabama Premiere

    LIFE & LIBERTY, ALABAMA, BLACK LENS, WOMEN IN FILM

    Sixty years after the 1965 Voting Rights Act was signed into law, civil rights activists and historians gather to reflect on the movement in Selma, Alabama, that led to revolutionary change.


    The Other Roe

    Directed by Wendy Eley Jackson

    14:47 • USA Southern US Premiere

    LIFE & LIBERTY, BLACK LENS, WOMEN IN FILM

    Learn the untold story of attorney Margie Pitts Hames whose Supreme Court victory in Doe v. Bolton - the companion case to Roe v. Wade - reshaped reproductive rights in America.


    Projecting Protest

    Directed by Thomas Clement

    22:07 • USA Southern US Premiere

    LIFE & LIBERTY

    Over the past decade, activists across the political spectrum have been deploying a new protest tactic: guerrilla light projection. Projection devices have become cheap, powerful, and can be smaller than a toaster. They are also, for the most part, wildly unregulated by American law.

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We produce the nationally recognized Sidewalk Film Festival; organize a wide variety of educational programs for filmmakers and hold other events that create interest in and enthusiasm for independent film. To expand on this work and better serve our mission we have opened the Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema, a two-screen independent movie theater in the heart of Birmingham’s historic theatre district.