3rd Detroit Windsor International Film Festival

The 2010 Detroit Windsor International Film Festival was the third annual film festival held in Detroit, Michigan, United States and Windsor, Ontario, Canada. It ran from June 24, 2010 to June 27, 2010. The lineup consisted of eighty 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. 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.

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"

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

3rd Detroit Windsor International Film Festival

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