Just two weeks until opening night! (Buy your tickets and RSVP on Facebook just for fun.)
We’re screening a full-length feature called “Dynamite Swine” (facebook) by Mark Poisella, a rollicking action movie/buddy flick/poker movie that defies description but just works. This is the second year in a row we’ve opened with a feature film, and you [...]
Just to let you know, you’ve got 8 days and counting to submit your movies for consideration to the Brainwash Movie Festival. We want your unique independent movies… you want people to watch your movie and give you awards for it. “Mutually beneficial” is how I would describe the arrangement.
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 Smyth
4th Prize: “The [...]
Thank you to all of our audience members and the moviemakers (those who could make it and those who couldn’t) who made the 2009 festival a success! We really enjoyed ourselves and hope you did too. Special thanks to the folks at the American Steel building for hosting the festival and making everyone feel welcome.
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July 31st and August 1st will be the 15th Annual Brainwash Bike-in Walk-in Movie Festival [no cars allowed; bring a chair].
For the festival proper on July 31st and August 1st (check out the program), our new venue is the really cool American Steel building on 18th and Mandela in Oakland.
We are proud to announce a terrific line-up of short independent movies at this year’s 15th Annual Brainwash Drive-in Bike-in Walk-in Movie Festival, to be held in Oakland on Friday, July 31st and Saturday, August 1st, 2009. [Buy advance tickets on TicketWeb.]
Congratulations to our moviemakers and a sincere thanks to all who submitted their movies! [...]
This Saturday, July 18th, at 1357 5th Street in Oakland, the Brainwash Movie Festival kicks off the 2009 season with Brainwash Zombie Night!
Featuring:
Feature Presentation Doctor S. Battles the Sex-Crazed Reefer Zombies: The Movie
Shorts Dead Sucks and Dead in the Water
Buy tickets either online or at the gate… and RSVP on Facebook. $9, 9 pm! Fun [...]
Brainwash Movies is now on Facebook.
So, if you’re on Facebook, become a fan! It’ll be worth your while. We’ll offer Facebook fans exclusive first access to discounts and announcements about the festival. (It might barely be first, but it’ll still be first.)
