A variety of documentaries that delve into the diverse lives of the LGBTQ+ communities.
Drag me to Church
Directed by Isabella Sullivan
12:34 • United States • Alabama Premiere
DOCUMENTARY, SHOUT
Worlds collide when a gay pastor in Atlanta, Georgia, bridges the gap between two divided communities by throwing a fabulous drag church service.
Rainbow Rider
Directed by Georgia Krause
25: 41 • United States • Southern U.S. Premiere
DOCUMENTARY, SHOUT
Rainbow Rider follows Shelle Lichti, an outspoken lesbian truck driver hauling freight across the country in her eponymous and iconic rainbow semi-truck.
There’s a Small Hotel
Directed by Michael Grodner
18:53 • United States • Southern U.S. Premiere
DOCUMENTARY, SHOUT
A short documentary about the Brevoort, an old Hollywood apartment building with a notorious past, that has been managed for the last 18 years by former Warhol superstar Joe Dallesandro.
Love Birds
Directed by Elliott Kennerson and Angel Morris
27:40 • United States • Alabama Premiere
DOCUMENTARY, SHOUT
In 1972, when married biologists George Hunt and Molly Warner discover that a great number of nesting seagull pairs on one of California's Channel Islands are all female, their research on “lesbian seagulls” triggers outrage and jubilation in a nation grappling with a growing LGBTQ+ rights movement while also threatening to tear apart their own relationship.
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.