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The winners!

September 16, 2009 – 2:58 am

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 [...]

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Audience Choice Award – TAKE THE SURVEY

August 6, 2009 – 6:22 pm

If you came to the festival, please rate the movies on our survey form.
We trust you to use the honor system and rate only the movies you saw! Enjoy, and thanks for coming to the festival!

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Thank you!!

August 2, 2009 – 12:27 pm

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.
We [...]

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Announcing the 2009 Brainwash Movie Festival Lineup!

July 14, 2009 – 7:16 pm

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! [...]

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July 18: Brainwash Zombie Night!

July 13, 2009 – 11:07 am

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 [...]

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