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]
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| Opening film | Eddie and the Alternate Universe |
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| 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 |
2010 Award Winners edit
Best Feature edit
"Bilal's Stand" - Sultan Sharrief
Best Detroit Windsor Feature edit
"Annabelle and Bear" - Amy S Weber
Best Documentary edit
"Grown in Detroit" - Mascha & Manfred Poppenk
Best Detroit Windsor Documentary edit
"Regional Roots" - Carrie LeZotte
Best International Film edit
"Grown in Detroit" - Mascha & Manfred Poppenk
Best Detroit Windsor Children's Film edit
"Eddie and The Alternate Universe" - Samuel Lemberg
Best International Children's Film edit
"The Nickel" - Bill Reilly
Best Comedic Short edit
"Air Knob" Nathan Fleet
Best Short edit
"Qing Lou Nu" - Bryan Hopkins
Best Detroit Windsor Short edit
"Bare Witness" - Jeffery T. Schultz
DWIFF Chalange edit
First Place edit
Scallywag Entertainment, "The Fall of a Sparrow"[3]
Second Place edit
Gillissie, "Fracture"
Third Place edit
Wing It, "You"
Honorable Mention edit
Group Therapy, "Walk Off"
Audience Choice edit
A&W Movies, "The Bitch is Back"
Films Shown at the DWIFF edit
Animation edit
- H2oil - Animated Segments
Commercials edit
- NEC 'Make it happen'
Children's edit
- Chasing Mascots
- Eddie and the Alternate Universe
- Murphy's Short's
- The Nickel
Documentary edit
- Grown in Detroit
- H2oil - Animated Segments
- No Good Reason
- Regional Roots
- Resilience: Stories of Single Black Mothers
- The Mountain Music Project
- Tresor Berlin
Shorts edit
- '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 edit
- 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 edit
Teams Accepted for Judging and All Awards edit
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 edit
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 edit
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
See also edit
References edit
- ^ "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.