Mo & Bert
2024 · 10m · USA
Directed by Whit Conway
Tones: darkly comic, humorous, provocative
Two LA commercial actors — Mo, Middle-Eastern American, and Bert, Latino-American — survive an audition full of ethnographic stereotypes, then meet the same nonsense again at a bar. Eventually they take it to the stage on their own terms.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
Industry-satire shorts are usually limp because the people making them want a job at the place they're roasting. Conway loaded the cast with comedians and let them actually swing.
Hollywood typecasting as recurring social hazard rather than a single act break — Ramy's edge meeting industry-misery; a serious ensemble for what could've been a single-joke piece.
Hollywood typecasting framed as a recurring social hazard rather than a single act break — the Osama accent / sombrero audition cascading into a bar repeat is the right structural choice. Carmen Christopher + Sydnee Washington bench is loaded.