3rd Detroit Windsor International Film Festival

Detroit Windsor International Film Festival
Opening film	Eddie and the Alternate Universe
Closing film	DWIFF Challenge Films
Location	Detroit, Michigan, United States ; Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Hosted by	John Kelly, Shane Sevo
No. of films	80+
Festival date	June 24, 2010 - June 24, 2010
Language	International
Website	www.dwiff.org

The 2010 Detroit Windsor International Film Festival was the 3rd annual film festival held in Detroit, Michigan, United States & Windsor, Ontario, Canada. It ran from June 24, 2010 to June 27, 2010. The lineup consisted of 80 films shown as part of the DWIFF proper and many others as a part of MovingMedia. The selection included 32 shorts and 10 feature films.^[1] The festival was attended by members of the industry, press and general public. It opened with the world premiere of Eddie and the Alternate Universe, a film about a 10-year-old boy who is sent to an alternate reality by an eccentric neighborhood wizard and must fight to return to his world, and closed with the films submitted as part of the DWIFF Challenge.^[2]

2010 Award Winners

Best Feature

"Bilal's Stand" - Sultan Sharrief

Best Detroit Windsor Feature

"Annabelle and Bear" - Amy S Weber

Best Documentary

"Grown in Detroit" - Mascha & Manfred Poppenk

Best Detroit Windsor Documentary

"Regional Roots" - Carrie LeZotte

Best International Film

"Grown in Detroit" - Mascha & Manfred Poppenk

Best Detroit Windsor Children's Film

"Eddie and The Alternate Universe" - Samuel Lemberg

Best International Children's Film

"The Nickel" - Bill Reilly

Best Comedic Short

"Air Knob" Nathan Fleet

Best Short

"Qing Lou Nu" - Bryan Hopkins

Best Detroit Windsor Short

"Bare Witness" - Jeffery T. Schultz

DWIFF Chalange

First Place

Scallywag Entertainment, "The Fall of a Sparrow"^[3]

Second Place

Gillissie, "Fracture"

Third Place

Wing It, "You"

Honorable Mention

Group Therapy, "Walk Off"

Audience Choice

A&W Movies, "The Bitch is Back"

Films Shown at the DWIFF

Animation

H2oil - Animated Segments

Commercials

NEC 'Make it happen'

Children's

Chasing Mascots
Eddie and the Alternate Universe
Murphy's Short's
The Nickel

Documentary

Grown in Detroit
H2oil - Animated Segments
No Good Reason
Regional Roots
Resilience: Stories of Single Black Mothers
The Mountain Music Project
Tresor Berlin

Shorts

'Bare Witness'
Across the Street
Air Knob
Arithmetic Lesson
Boxed In
Broken Fidelity
Chickenfut
Coping
Council
Deal Breaker
Debt of the Heart
Did You ...
Double Talk
Elusive Man
Fantastic Glass Portrait
Forbidden Fruit
Free Lunch
H2oil - Animated Segments
Horst
La Moustache
Memoirs of a Blogger
Osama Bin Latte
Pink Slip
Qing Lou Nu
Relax Dude
Sapsucker
Televisnu
Thank You, Mr. Patterson
The Lost Food Shop
The Window
Thief
too soon too late

Features

Annabelle & Bear
Bilal's Stand
Blind Sided
From A Place of Darkness
I am Bish
Ice Grill, USA
Pizza With Bullets
Starlight & Superfish
The Art of Power
The Crimson Mask

DWIFF Challenge

Teams Accepted for Judging and All Awards

These films met the following criteria; received on time, film could be played back / watched, all elements were present and accurate in submitted film, film was within the run-time limit, and there were not any obscene or pornographic scenes in the film. Films listed in order of team number assignment.

5, A&W Movies
9, T 130
11, Group Therapy
16, Wing it
17, Reel Temptations
18, Top Hat
19, Woodbridge
21, Reel Hood
22, A.G.e Industries
23, Gillissie
24, Scallywag
25, Motor City
28 LB Entertainment

Teams Accepted for Screening and Audience Choice Award

These films met the following criteria; received on time, film could be played back / watched, and there were not any obscene or pornographic scenes in the film. Films listed in order of team number assignment.

2, Krist10 Cartoons
14, Neon Complex
37, Independent

Teams Accepted for Screening

These films met the following criteria; film could be played back / watched, and there were not any obscene or pornographic scenes in the film.

A-Team
Team Channel 19
Evolution Entertainment
Afternoon Productions
HFCC Film Club
Troll Vision
JML Productions
Danse Paratus
Phoenix Gilly Productions

References

^ "The Festival The Films". Archived from the original on 2010-06-13. Retrieved 2010-06-29.
^ http://www.dwiff.org/images/stories/schedule.pdf^{[permanent dead link]}
^ "2010 Awarded Films". Dwiff.org. Archived from the original on 2012-03-08. Retrieved 2013-12-26.

External links

Official website
The DWIFF Chalange
MovingMedia Student Film Festival Archived 2010-06-08 at the Wayback Machine
DWIFF Tech Fair

[1] "The Festival The Films". Archived from the original on 2010-06-13. Retrieved 2010-06-29.

[2] ttp://www.dwiff.org/images/stories/schedule.pdf^{[permanent dead link]}

[3] "2010 Awarded Films". Dwiff.org. Archived from the original on 2012-03-08. Retrieved 2013-12-26.

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