The Second Annual Detroit Windsor International Film Festival is calling all entries for this year’s event.
DWIFF is a four-day celebration of the art of cinema, happens June 25-28, 2009 in both neighboring cities. The festival will exhibit short and feature length films in narrative, documentary and animated forms. It is open to all filmmakers and is not limited to only recent productions.
Detroit Convention & Visitors Bureau launches new web site www.FilmDetroit.com
Michigan’s new film Incentives have created over 3,000 new jobs with total wages reaching $57 million in 2008.
This past weekend saw Lifetime’s network premier of Prayers For Bobby, which was shot in Metro Detroit.
On the set of Grand Torino in Metro Detroit.
Also his is a list of more feature length movies being made in Michigan 2009:
Diary of a Champion
The Disappearing Act
Fish in a Barrel (staring Burt Reynolds)
Scarlet Creek
Something in the Night
Sweet Baby Jesus (starring Robbie Coltrane, Melanie Griffith, Michael McKean, Tom Green, Lily Tomlin)
War of the Dragon
Timberwolf
Holly, Jingles and Clyde
Thanks to Mickey Rourke’s Golden Globe-winning performance in “The Wrestler,” the Weinstein Co. film Killshot isn’t a dead duck. It could even be called the “phoenix from Phoenix.” (more)
State film officials say they are on the verge of sealing an $80 million development deal that would create three film and television production studios in southeast Michigan, boosting one of the state’s few fast-growing industries.
