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Congrats to My Friend Peter – Audience Choice 2011!

Jason Gohlke — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 03:47:28 +0000

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 puppet. It also received one of the best audience reactions I’d ever seen in six years of Brainwash. Though we are a drive-in festival, a lot of our patrons sit outside their cars, so we are able to hear their reactions… and they were big.

To choose the Audience Choice Award, we handed out ballots as people entered the venue. Members of the audience each wrote down their ratings of each of the movies (0-5 stars), and we tallied them up this week.

My Friend Peter won decisively with an average rating of 4 2/3, but several other movies were also extremely well-received by our audience, including The Lost Samurai, 5 Minutes Each, Spirit of the Bluebird, and Earthship, which all averaged ratings of four stars or more.

Thank you!

Jason Gohlke — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 08:56:08 +0000

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 Raji Barbir
4th prize: 5 Minutes Each by Vojin Vasovic
5th prize: The Lost Samurai by Yuta Okamura
Executive Consultant Award: Dave Reda for My Undeadly and Horror of Our Love
Audience Choice: My Friend Peter by Mike Kopera

Congrats to our award winners and to all our moviemakers!

The Audience Choice Award goes to…

Jason Gohlke — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:30:03 +0000

We are happy to announce that the 2010 Brainwash Drive-in Bike-in Walk-in Movie Festival Audience Choice Award goes to — among several very strong contenders — “Morgue: A Love Story With Guts,” directed by Donald McQuade and written by Anthony Pizzo! Both of them came up from Southern California to see the 21 shorts we showed at the final weekend of the festival. Our congratulations, and thanks to them for submitting their movie and for coming up!

Speaking of which, we were really glad to get a chance to meet and talk to the moviemakers who came to the festival: Mark Poisella, writer and director of the feature “Dynamite Swine”; Jason Rose (director) and Leslie Rose (producer) of “Viola Concerto”; Matthew McKenna, who directed “Signatures”; Josh Self and Orlando Rivera, co-directors and writers of “Goodnight Harvey”; and Karl Schweitzer and Tony Turino, cast and crew of “Horror of Our Love”.

Congratulations again to all of our moviemakers and award winners! See you next year, if not sooner!

2010′s Winners (minus one)!

Jason Gohlke — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 11:55:38 +0000

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 Grand Prize: Way To Go, Christine! by Mark Thimijian
3rd prize: Goodnight, Harvey by Josh Self and Orlando Rivera II (IFYW)
4th prize: The Horror of Our Love: A Short Film by Dave Reda (Elftwin Films)
5th prize: Signatures by Matthew McKenna
6th prize: What Alex Understands by Sebastian Jones

Congratulations!

The winners!

Jason Gohlke — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 09:58:33 +0000

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 Collection” by Keren Albala
5th Prize: “Gypsy Crepes” by Count Lear Bunda
Brainwash First Feature: “Dr. S Battles the Sex-Crazed Reefer Zombies: The Movie” by Bryan Ortiz
Audience Choice Award: “Stalk Much?” by Bill Baykan

The last was finally tabulated from the thousands and thousands of paper ballots (chads hanging all over the place) so that you, the loyal reader, would finally know the truth about the 2009 Brainwash Movie Festival.

The truth is, it’s all over, so watch this space for our call for entries! Become a fan on Facebook (not that we’ve done much with that in a while) to keep up. Soon we’ll relaunch our email list as well.