Best Youtuber: BOBBY MILLER vs BRANDON HARDESTY

BOBBY MILLER

Bobby Miller is an Italian-American writer/director whose short film TUB world premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. It went on to play Cannes, SXS...

Bobby Miller is an Italian-American writer/director whose short film TUB world premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. It went on to play Cannes, SXSW, and other film festivals around the world. He's a 2009 graduate of Columbia University's Graduate MFA Film Program He directed and executive produced CRITTERS ATTACK!, a reboot of the cult horror franchise. In 2018 he wrote/directed his first feature film, The Cleanse, starring Johnny Galecki, Anna Friel, Anjelica Huston, and Oliver Platt. It world premiered at SXSW 2016 and was named one of "7 Hidden Gems in the 2016 Features Lineup" by Indiewire. His next project is called END TIMES, funded by a Kickstarter campaign. It had its world premiere at the Boston Underground Film Festival. He was also a co-writer for the Summer Camp Island episode "Time Traveling Quick Pants".

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BRANDON HARDESTY

Brandon Allan Hardesty (born April 13, 1987) is an American comedic performer and actorOn YouTube, Hardesty goes by the username "ArtieTSMITW," which...

Brandon Allan Hardesty (born April 13, 1987) is an American comedic performer and actorOn YouTube, Hardesty goes by the username "ArtieTSMITW," which is an abbreviation for "Artie: The Strongest Man in the World," a character from one of his favorite childhood shows, The Adventures of Pete and Pete. His most popular videos are his Re-enactment videos, in which he chooses a movie scene, and re-enacts it, playing all the characters. One of his most popular and strikingly real performances is the drill instructor from Full Metal Jacket, originally portrayed by R. Lee Ermey. Another popular series is Strange Faces and Noises I Can Make, in which he demonstrates the strange faces and noises he can make. He has parodied the Internet sensation 2 Girls 1 Cup with "1 guy 1 lunchable". Hardesty posts original comedy videos as well as "uncanny" recreations of scenes from movies, playing every part himself. The Village Voice writer Julian Dibbell has called his works "web culture at its finest. To date, Hardesty has had seven of his videos featured on the front page of YouTube: his reenactment of a scene from The Princess Bride, his reenactment of a scene from Uncle Buck, a video dubbed "Three Impressions" which features three of Hardesty's celebrity impersonations, his "Strange Faces and Noises I Can Make III" video, which has had over 7.2 million views, a video entitled "The 30-Second Video," a video called "Request a Reenactment for YouTube Live," and a video called "Movies on YouTube? Huzzah!"

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