It’s the Monday before the one weekend that I look forward to every year. This year’s Sidewalk Film Festival is going to be one of the best, I feel. You can check out all the details for the weekend at http://www.sidewalkfest.com. A couple of the highlights for me will be:
(1) to actually see the film I helped create the title sequence for – “Wheedle’s Groove”
(2) to watch my good friend’s band – Imaginary Planes – perform in the Sidelot area.
(3) to see one of the few feature films that was shot here in Birmingham – “Lifted”. I worked on the behind-the-scenes crew and am interested to see how it turned out. Unfortunately, I probably won’t see this because it’s scheduled at the same time as “Wheedle’s Groove”
(4) to go to as many of the parties as my old body can take.
(5) to find that one film that makes the festival for me. In 2008, it was a movie called “Cook County”.
Last year, we had a short film in the festival. This year, there are films that we had some sort of hand in – including renting space in our studio for a few scenes of “A Dread of Red”. We have tons of friends with films screening, and we’ll try to see as many as we can.
And now, we can walk under the train tracks at 18th Street and hang out at the Railroad Reservation Park to get our fill of green grass when we’re tired of the concrete jungle.
Overall, it looks like we’re in for a great weekend.
