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Detroit Windsor International Film Festival
Opening filmEddie and the Alternate Universe
Closing filmDWIFF Challenge Films
LocationDetroit, Michigan, United States United States
Windsor, Ontario, Canada Canada
Hosted byJohn Kelly, Shane Sevo
No. of films80+
Festival dateJune 24, 2010 - June 24, 2010
LanguageInternational
Websitewww.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

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Best Feature

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"Bilal's Stand" - Sultan Sharrief

Best Detroit Windsor Feature

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"Annabelle and Bear" - Amy S Weber

Best Documentary

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"Grown in Detroit" - Mascha & Manfred Poppenk

Best Detroit Windsor Documentary

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"Regional Roots" - Carrie LeZotte

Best International Film

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"Grown in Detroit" - Mascha & Manfred Poppenk

Best Detroit Windsor Children's Film

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"Eddie and The Alternate Universe" - Samuel Lemberg

Best International Children's Film

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"The Nickel" - Bill Reilly

Best Comedic Short

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"Air Knob" Nathan Fleet

Best Short

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"Qing Lou Nu" - Bryan Hopkins

Best Detroit Windsor Short

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"Bare Witness" - Jeffery T. Schultz

DWIFF Chalange

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First Place

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

Second Place

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Gillissie, "Fracture"

Third Place

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Wing It, "You"

Honorable Mention

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Group Therapy, "Walk Off"

Audience Choice

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A&W Movies, "The Bitch is Back"

Films Shown at the DWIFF

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Animation

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  • H2oil - Animated Segments

Commercials

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  • NEC 'Make it happen'

Children's

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

Documentary

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

Shorts

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  • '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

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  • 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

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Teams Accepted for Judging and All Awards

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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

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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

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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

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References

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  1. ^ "The Festival The Films". Archived from the original on 2010-06-13. Retrieved 2010-06-29.
  2. ^ http://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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