Film Birmingham Updates Central Calendar for Local Indie Screenings and Festivals

Film Birmingham refreshed and republished its Film Calendar on February 23, 2026, creating a single resource to centralize listings for independent screenings, community-run series, local film club events and festival programs across the Birmingham metropolitan area. The update is the organization’s latest effort to streamline how screenings and festival programs are listed for the city and surrounding communities.

Film Birmingham is the nonprofit that supports local filmmaking and exhibition in the Birmingham metropolitan area, and the Film Calendar resource now groups independent screenings alongside community series and film club events. The calendar explicitly covers the range of exhibition activity that drives the local circuit: indie features and shorts, recurring neighborhood series, formally organized film clubs, and scheduled festival programming.

The refresh on Feb 23 places community-run series listings next to festival program dates so readers can see neighborhood screenings and multi-venue festival blocks on the same schedule. That centralization reduces the need to track multiple bulletin boards and event pages when planning attendance or avoiding schedule clashes between local festivals and ongoing series in Birmingham.

For programmers and venue operators in the Birmingham metropolitan area, the updated Film Calendar provides one consolidated place to flag events, including single-night independent screenings and longer festival runs. Film Birmingham’s role supporting local filmmaking and exhibition means venue managers and festival organizers can point participants to a single published calendar rather than distribute separate listings for each series or club.

The calendar refresh on February 23, 2026 aligns with Film Birmingham’s ongoing mission to support local exhibition and to help audiences find independent programming across the metro area. With the Film Calendar current as of Feb 23, planners and audiences can reference the consolidated listings for upcoming screenings, community-run series nights, local film club meetings and scheduled festival programs this season.