The 16th annual Brainwash Movie Festival was held Saturday, August 7th, Friday, August 13th, and Saturday, August 14th, 2010. (Find out more about 2011′s 17th Annual Festival.)
2010′s award winners:
- 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
- Audience Choice Award: Morgue: A Love Story With Guts by Donald McQuade and Anthony Pizzo
2010′s lineup:
| Friday, August 13th: | |
|---|---|
| Signatures | Matthew McKenna (Santa Cruz) |
| Political volunteers working for the same cause — maybe — clash in this dark comedy. | |
| A Tooth Fairy | Benjamin Welmond (Pittsburgh, PA) |
| “A” tooth fairy, or “the” tooth fairy? | |
| Sunset to Sunset | Kent Hayward (Venice, CA) |
| A pedestrian walks across L.A. and comes face to face with the metropolis (rather than watch it blur by through a windshield). | |
| Underestimated | Michele Ervin (Cerritos, CA) |
| Based on actual events, a pair of unfortunate criminals pick, perhaps, the wrong target. | |
| Fledgling | Tony Gault & Elizabeth Henry (Glenwood Springs, CO) |
| A backyard provides a rich setting for the story of a man and his complicated relationship with nature. | |
| L’Essere Umano Moderno | Jacqui Siler (Los Angeles) |
| How the modern human functions within society’s constraints. | |
| How It’s Done | Michael O’Kelly (London, UK) |
| Hey, baby! Hey, baby! Hey, baby! Want to party? Want to party with me? Hey, baby! | |
| Morgue: A Love Story With Guts | Donald McQuade (Florida) |
| A lonely cop finds the love of his life in a morgue. | |
| Way to Go, Christine! | Mark Thimijian (Lincoln, NB) |
| “Run, Lola, Run” meets “Office Space” (add 40 oz. malt liquor, repeat). | |
| Demiurge Emesis | Voltaire (NY, NY) |
| Past meals torment a mummified cat. | |
| Saturday, August 14th: | |
| The Magnitude of the Continental Divides | Christopher Coleman (Centennial, CO) |
| An animated exploration of individuals, nations, and the borders between them. | |
| The Salariat in Parts | Zachary Epcar (San Francisco) |
| Several points of correspondence between the material space of the office and the gastrointestinal movements of its inhabitants. | |
| Phillip the Safety Egg | Mike Owens (Minneapolis, MN) |
| Genetically altered mutant animals go wild, in an animation reminiscent of Adult Swim. | |
| What Alex Understands | Sebastian Jones (Boynton Beach, FL) |
| A young man has a revelation, and starts cleaning up his life. So to speak. | |
| This Sucks | Eric Coppa-Cross (Orlando, FL) |
| A man overcomes tremendous difficulties to retrieve something… precious. | |
| Viola Concerto | Jason Rose (Burbank) |
| Just another day on the job. | |
| The Empress | Lyle Pisio (Calgary, AB, Canada) |
| An animated short about loneliness, desire, love, hesitation, miscommunication, fear, loss, and alcoholism (for comic relief). | |
| Horror of Our Love: A Short Film | Dave Reda (Pasadena) |
| This horror romantic comedy short film will twist your normal love story’s back until it breaks. | |
| Billionaire | Antonio Figueroa (Mexico City, DF, Mexico) |
| A board game is adeptly used as an allegory for capitalism. Animated. | |
| Frank DanCoolo: Paranormal Drug Dealer | Andrew Jones (Sherman Oaks) |
| Stop-motion monsters, cartoon physics, and computer-generated overkill dot the futurescape of Neo-Mega-Ultra Tokyo, where ace reporter Holly Malone follows the scent of a murderous urban legend. | |
| Goodnight Harvey | Joshua Self (San Francisco) |
| Muppos: those furry puppet performers we all know and love. Here’s what you didn’t know: they’re alive! Must-see short from local filmmakers. | |
| Awards Presentation | |
| Previously (Saturday, August 7th): | |
| With Anchovies… Without Mamma | Thomas Justino (Brooklyn, NY) |
| An amazing mockumentary about pizza and revenge. | |
| Dynamite Swine (feature) | Mark Poisella (Los Angeles) |
| A run-n-gun gambler must enter the biggest card tourney of his life, to save his girlfriend’s “hair salon for the homeless,” his ass, his brother’s ass, and the life of a pig named Porky. World Festival Premiere. | |
