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Category Archives: Award Winners

The Brainwash Movie Festival’s 30th Anniversary Annual Shows!

OK, Look Out Now, here comes our 30th! Annual Brainwash Movie Festival! But first, here are our winners from our 2023 Festival, shown at SF’s New Farm, 10/27-29/2023: 1st Prize: Loop Garou – a French Canadian Werewolf Fable – Erin Greenwell 2nd Grand! Prize!: The Unseen – John Akre 3rd Prize: Shitfaced –Jack E. K. […]

The 24th Brainwash Drive-In/Bike-In/Walk-In Movie festival Award Winners!

The 2nd Grand Prize Award Winner: Twice Upon a Time – Vojin Vasovic The First Prize Award Winner:  High-Five the Cactus– Christopher Allan Thomas Third Prize Award: Bounty – Katarzyna Kochany Fourth Prize: Colorado Counties: A Journey in Watercolor – Ronnie Cramer Fifth: The Oak Tree – Ethan Jahan The Audience Choice Award: Suck – […]

The 23rd Annual Winners AND 2013 Audience Choice Awards!

Announcing The 23rd Annual Brainwash Drive/In-Bike-In/Walk-In Movie Festival Winners: The First Prize Award winner: Where Have The Flowers Gone – Sin-Hong Chan 2nd Grand Prize: Bien Mal à Qui!? – Daniel Jenny Third Prize Award: The Blue Jet – Lawrence Lam Fourth Prize: Solved – Michael Bartolomeo Fifth: What Price Freedom: The History of Apocalypse Cartoons – Dean Packis The Audience Choice AND Best Feature Film Awards: Jackson Bolt […]

The Brainwash 2016 22nd Annual Movie Festival Winners!

Announcing The 22nd Annual Brainwash Drive/In-Bike-In/Walk-In Movie Festival Winners: The First Prize Award winner: Dance of the Neurons – Jody Oberfelder 2nd Grand Prize: High Signs – Damien Patrik Third Prize Award: Head – Stav Levi Fourth Prize: Clyde’s Game – William Howard Fifth: “Ahavot Be’kitsur/Short Love – Yaron Yarkoni The Audience Choice AND Best […]

18th Annual Festival Winners! 2012!

Who won awards? 1st Prize: Secret of Goat – Park Bench – A Woman and a Man live in a cabin in the woods. They are in love. One autumn they buy a goat. Something starts happening to the Woman and Man, they begin to change… and so does their love. 2nd Grand Prize: Odokuro […]

Congrats to My Friend Peter – Audience Choice 2011!

Congratulations to the Kopera brothers, makers of the short My Friend Peter, which won the “Audience Choice Award” at this year’s festival! Written, produced, and starring Mike Kopera, directed by Steve Kopera, and produced by Matt & John Kopera, My Friend Peter is a heartwarming and funny 11-minute short about a man and his monkey […]

Thank you!

Thank you all for making the 17th Annual Brainwash Drive-in Bike-in Walk-in Movie Festival a success! It seemed like the audiences had a good time. It’s late, but I am still posting the award winners: 1st Prize: Clean is Good by Carlos Matiella 2nd Grand Prize: Earthship by David Wilson 3rd prize: Coming Soon by […]

The Audience Choice Award goes to…

The 2010 Brainwash Drive-in Bike-in Walk-in Movie Festival Audience Choice Award goes to “Morgue: A Love Story With Guts,” directed by Donald McQuade and written by Anthony Pizzo.

2010’s Winners (minus one)!

Thanks again to all who came to the festival and all of the moviemakers! Here are the first six awards — some time in the next couple days we’ll tally up the totals of the many ballots you submitted and award the Audience Choice Award! 1st prize: With Anchovies… Without Mamma by Thomas Justino 2nd […]

The winners! – 2009

How could we have waited so long to finally announce this? My apologies to the moviemakers who have been waiting to point to this very website to prove that they weren’t just making it up. 1st Prize: “MXD MSG” by Jeffrey Durkin 2nd GRAND Prize: “Mister Coffey” by Mark Thimijan 3rd Prize: “EXIT:ALLEY” by Robin […]