Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival 2008

Jack is a young college student in love with Jill. Jill is a typical college freshman, lively, full of energy, and in love with her cell phone. Like many girls Jill's age, she goes to the restroom in large groups with her friends. However, Jack wonders why Jill leaves with her girl friends for the bathroom everytime her cell phone rings. So, Jack takes it upon himself to find out what is really going on behind the pink doors of the women's restroom.

A suspicious pear-thieving beast becomes fast friends with a lonely man who proudly presents him to the prestigious Academy of Sciences. The Beast of Monsieur Racine has won numerous accolades at film festivals large and small including 1st Prize at the Children’s Category, International Animation Film Festival.

For a new Chinese immigrant, one dream ends as another begins.

When one war ends, another begins.

A soul is a terrible thing to waste.

The film is a window into the life of the late Anne Ross, a longtime Parkdale resident, book enthusiast and avid feeder of the city's street “rats-with-wings”, as she feeds literally hundreds of pigeons and doles out homespun advice from her turn-of-the-century coldwater flat. The piece is the last known recording of Ross, who died a few months after principal photography. It is at once a tale of loneliness and aging and account of one of the city’s most beloved and unique characters; a true document of what is now the Parkdale of old.

Set in 1987, a young American boy finds the truest form of comradeship and inspiration from none other than Mikhail Gorbachev.

Under laws regulated by the state of Alabama, it is illegal for a direct-entry midwife to attend births. Licensure for these midwives was removed in 1976, when it was decided that only Certified Nurse Midwives were allowed to practice in our state. There is a strict penalty if found practicing—direct-entry midwives in our state may be charged with a misdemeanor and in other states even a felony prosecution. However, this has not deterred the practice of a few midwives and the mothers who use their services. Their underground network exists in our Birmingham community and other areas of Alabama. Although many mothers find justification in having midwife-attended births in our state, there is potential danger in hiring a midwife who lacks certification that establishes a standard of care. This film explores the differences in midwifery versus obstetric care and the perspective of the medical community on its practice, its many benefits, and alternatives mothers elect to experience natural birth. Also highlighted is a group of advocates that wishes to increase access to midwifery options and their efforts to change the current state of legislation of midwifery practice in Alabama.

The only things standing between a Rent-A-Cop and true love are the guard dogs on a used-car lot.