1999 - 2000 - 2001 - 2002 - 2003 - 2004 - 2005 - 2006 - 2007 - 2008 - 2009 - 2010 - 2011 - 2012 - 2013 - 2014 - 2015 - 2016 - 2017 - 2018 - 2019 - 2022 - 9th Annual Sidewalk Film Festival: September 22 - September 24 Narrative Features Documentaries Short Films Audience Choice Other Awards 10th Annual Sidewalk Film Festival: September 26 - September 28 Narrative Features Documentaries Short Films Audience Choice Other Awards 11th Annual Sidewalk Film Festival: September 25 - September 27[1] Narrative Features Documentary Features Shorts Audience Choice Awards Alabama Awards 12th Annual Sidewalk Film Festival: September 24 - September 26[2] Jury Awards Audience Choice Awards Other Awards 13th Annual Sidewalk Film Festival: August 26 - August 28 [2] Jury Awards Audience Choice Awards Other Awards 14th Annual Sidewalk Film Festival: August 26 - August 28 [3] Jury Awards Audience Choice Awards 15th Annual Sidewalk Film Festival: August 23–25, 2013 Documentary: Best Documentary Feature: HIT & STAY Shout: Narrative: Shorts: Special Awards: Schaeffer Eye Center Audience Choice Awards: Shout Audience Choice: 16th Annual Sidewalk Film Festival: August 22–24, 2014 Sidewalk Jury Awards Sidewalk Audience Choice Awards 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”
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] [5] Jambor-Franklin Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature: "Donald Cried" Best Documentary Feature: ''Syl Johnson: Any Way the Wind Blows."
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."
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.
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