Walton Theater Hosts The Alabama Solution Screening, Panel of Formerly Incarcerated Workers

An exclusive Selma screening of the HBO documentary The Alabama Solution is scheduled at Walton Theater Selma today, March 7, 2026, with a post-screening panel featuring formerly incarcerated workers. Local organizers Good Neighbors Alabama, The Ordinary People’s Society (TOPS), and No More Alabama are listed as hosts; an AllEvents listing gives a 4:00 PM CST start and a 2.5-hour runtime for the Walton Theater showing at 1000 Selma Ave, Selma, AL 36701-4653.

The Alabama Solution is directed by Emmy-winning filmmaker Andrew Jarecki and, per a prior Alvalues release, debuted nationwide on HBO and Max on October 10, 2025. TOPS has previously organized community screenings: on October 12, 2025 TOPS partnered with Alabama Values, Transform Alabama, Black Voters Matter, HICA, Lift Our Vote and others for a free Selma screening at the George P. Evans Reception Center that included a complimentary soul food dinner. That statewide series planned additional stops in Dothan, Mobile, Huntsville, and Montgomery, framing the screenings as efforts to "spark dialogue, healing, and collective action around the state’s prison crisis," according to the release.

Organizers list a post-film panel composed of "formerly incarcerated workers," but sources do not provide panelist names, moderator, or a detailed run-of-show for the Walton Theater event. Admission type and ticket price for March 7 are not specified in event listings; the AllEvents page asks users to click a "Notify me" option to stay informed about ticket availability. Reporters and attendees looking for confirmation will need to verify panelist names and the event schedule with Good Neighbors Alabama or the Walton box office.

Walton Theater venue policies captured in source material apply to screenings at the Selma venue: "Children 16 and under must be accompanied by an adult (all showtimes)." Sources also show differing contact details for Walton ticketing and group sales: one Walton site capture lists group-sales phone 334-505-9315 and states group tickets are non-refundable due to reserved seating, while a SelmaTimesJournal excerpt quotes a Walton group-sales line of (334) 878-3456 for pre-purchase. The SelmaTimesJournal excerpt also cited a separate contact, the TKO Society at (334) 526-4443, for a different early-screening fundraiser. These discrepancies appear in the collected materials; organizers or Walton staff should be contacted directly for the single authoritative ticketing phone number and box office instructions for tonight’s event.

Today’s Walton Theater screening continues a pattern of locally organized showings of The Alabama Solution that aim to center formerly incarcerated voices in public discussion. With the film’s statewide rollout and TOPS’s prior coalition screenings, the Selma event brings those formerly incarcerated workers into a public forum at a historic downtown address, and it will serve as a local touchpoint in ongoing conversations about Alabama’s prison conditions.