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Video: More work!

It’s Friday night (Saturday morning, by now). Dave and Simon are doing physical labor, and I am documenting it thusly:

Video: That’s dedication.

Okay, here’s what Dave and I were doing at midnight last night to bring you, the Brainwash Drive-in Bike-in Walk-in Movie Festival patron, the best possible drive-in film experience possible. By the way, this new, thicker vinyl screen is a significant upgrade from last year. Last year we added a new projector and FM transmitter, […]

Brainwash loves animation

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”

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 […]

Trailer/teaser for 2011

Hey, look… here’s a weird preliminary trailer for 2011! Share and enjoy!

A little about Opening Night: August 7th!

Opening night is TONIGHT! (Buy your tickets on TicketWeb here — and just for fun, why not RSVP on Facebook?) 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 […]

Some weird footage we found

We were shooting footage for our trailer and something weird happened: A few random things as we approach festival time: We’ve updated the program page with short descriptions of the movies and where the moviemakers are from. We got a nice little blurb on KCBS’ website and another very good writeup in the East Bay […]

Some movies we like

Here are trailers for a couple movies that are going to appear in the festival: MXD MSG: Watch the trailer for MXD MSG on the Breadtruck Films website Gypsy Crepes: Watch the trailer for Gypsy Crepes on Facebook We liked these movies a lot! Watch for more links to some of the movies from this […]