From 16-24 July 2010 Jos Stelling will be head of Jury at the First Odessa International Film Festival. Contestants will compete in the nominations for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor. The main prize of the festival - $15.000 and a statuette of the "Golden Duke". There is the "People's Choice Award".
The festival will show more than a hundred films. It will include a competitive program of feature films, retrospectives and special screenings, like retrospectives of Federico Fellini, Kira Muratova and the best comedies of the Odessa Film Studio. The main theme of the festival programme is humor.
From 4 to 13 June Jos Stelling will be the head of the jury of the 26th Festroia International Film Festival in Portugal. The Official Competetion consists of twelve European films produced during the last year. The winning film will be awarded with the Gold Dolphin for Best Film.
The 26th Imagine: 26th Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival will take place from 14 to 24 April in Amsterdam. Jos Stelling will be in the jury to select the winner of the Silver Méliès, the award for the best long European fantastic feature.
On the 26th of March 2010 Jos Stelling was granted with the title of Honourable Professor of the University of Yerevan. The certificate was given by the rector, Rahrachya Gasparyan:
'to award the world-known filmmaker JOS STELLING with the Title of HONOURABLE PROFESSOR of Yerevan State Institute of Theatre and Cinematography, according to the solution N04 of the Institute Scientific Council from March 22, 2010.'