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. […]
Category Archives: The Festival
2022 28th Annual Brainwash Movie Festival Coming Soon
October 1, 2021 – 11:02 pm
And, Also, for the SF Bay Area: Bay Area Film Industry Night Tuesday, August 16, 2022 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM Black Hammer Brewing – 544 Bryant St., San Francisco, CA 94107 RSVP now Details: The film industry is and has always been a fundamentally social industry. You never know what connections you make can […]
The 24th Annual Brainwash Drive-In/Bike-In/Walk-In Movie Festival! 2018!
June 24, 2018 – 10:47 am
July, Fri. the 13th, Sat. 14th, Fri. 20th & Sat. 21st. All shows: 9pm. @ Nimby, 8410 Amelia St., Oakland, CA, US. Please friend & share on FaceBook Adm.: $15 ea. per show at the door. $12ea. tickets, festival pass – $40 for all four shows, $50 for two @ July, Friday […]
The 19th Annual Brainwash Movie festival – 2013
July 3, 2013 – 10:41 pm
The movies shown at the Brainwash Movie Festival are a great mix of original humor, experimental art movies, innovative animation, and short live-action stories and features with high production values. The moviemakers are unique and skillful storytellers, and the movies themselves pack a real punch into anywhere from 5 to 18 to 100 minutes. Who […]
Congrats to My Friend Peter – Audience Choice 2011!
September 13, 2011 – 8:47 pm
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!
September 11, 2011 – 1:56 am
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 […]
Video: More work!
September 3, 2011 – 12:15 am
It’s Friday night (Saturday morning, by now). Dave and Simon are doing physical labor, and I am documenting it thusly:
Brainwash loves animation
August 30, 2011 – 9:43 am
As long as Brainwash has been around, animated shorts have been a major component of the festival. Following in the footsteps of such illustrious titles as Thought Bubble, Scrimshander, Boxcartoon, The Collection, and far more than I can name here (or, for that matter, remember), several very special, very distinct, and very original animated shorts […]
“How to Make it in Filmmaking”
August 28, 2011 – 10:11 pm
Like Gideon Verite, How to Make it in Filmmaking is a movie that will be shown at Brainwash about… well, filmmaking. There are, however, many differences. How to Make it in Filmmaking (check out the movie site here) is a 59-minute documentary by Shanna Maurizi about a real movie director, while Gideon Verite is a […]
