Birmingham International Center's Spotlight of Israel & Jordan 25th ONB Magic City Art Connection Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival present A dramatic story of four young girls who were adopted in Brazil by Israeli families in the 1980's. Now grown, the women return to Brazil to search for their birth mothers.

Scramble Registration
Registration for the 2008 Winter Scramble closes March 6 at 5pm.

Download your registration packet by clicking on the PDF icon.


Scramble Dates: March 7-9, 2008
Kick-off: March 7 | 6pm | WorkPlay Soundstage
Turn-in: March 9 | 5pm-7pm | Rojo

Screening: March 22 | 7pm | Carver Theatre

Make sure to clear your schedules, ask off work, and tell your friends you'll be MIA those weekends. For more information on the Scramble, visit sidewalkfilm.org.

The 2008 Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival has announced its Call For Entries for feature-length narratives, documentaries and short film entries. Now in its 9th year, Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival has been named one of TIME Magazine's "Film Festivals for the Rest of Us," one of the "Top Ten Film Festival Vacations" by the Ultimate Film Festival Survival Guide and a "Best Kept Secret" by MovieMaker magazine.

Award prizes include:
$1,000 for Best Feature
$1,000 for Best Documentary
$1,000 for Best Short
$500 for Best Animated Film
Kathryn Tucker Windham Storytelling Award
Audience Choice Awards
Alabama Citations of Excellence (ACE Awards)
Handcrafted cast-iron award sculptures designed by resident artists of Birmingham's historic Sloss Furnaces

Submissions must have been completed after January 1, 2006 and must not have been publicly exhibited in the Greater Birmingham Metropolitan Area prior to the 2008 festival dates.

Visit sidewalkfest.com for complete entry information and eligibility requirements. Sidewalk prefers submissions online through Withoutabox.com, but a downloadable PDF entry form is available here.

Stay tuned to your inbox for more updates, and please use the "send to a friend" link at the bottom of this page to forward this email on to others who may be interested. And be sure to join Sidewalk's network of friends on MySpace.com!

The Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival is set for September 26-28 in downtown Birmingham's historic theatre district and is a project of the Alabama Moving Image Association, Inc., a publicly supported 501(c)(3) non-profit organization created to inspire, encourage and support films and filmmaking in Alabama.


BEST KEPT SECRET in MovieMaker magazine

One of TIME Magazine's "Film Festivals for the Rest of Us"

One of Chris Gore's BEST VACATION FILM FESTIVALS in the Ultimate Film Festival Survival Guide

One of 20 FILM FESTIVALS WORTH THE ENTRY FEE in MovieMaker magazine.

Sidewalk Salons provide an opportunity for Birmingham's filmmaking community to meet, greet, listen and discuss. Guest speakers and topics provide a focus to each meeting, while the social environment of Rojo gives friends and colleagues a reason to get together monthly to talk about upcoming projects.

TUESDAY, March 4th @ Rojo (2921 Highland Ave South)
Admission is free and open to the public
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm Group Networking
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Presentation

Come hang with Birmingham's filmmaking community and meet, greet, listen and discuss. On the docket:

Networking
Looking for collaborators for your next project? Does that script you wrote need a second opinion? Need to ask an experienced cinematographer how feasible your ideas are? If so, then please come to the the March Salon where our focus is networking. This is an excellent time for Scramblers to find teammates!