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Before the years when he started watching content on YouTube, Moises Cardenas treasured the time he spent watching Mexican sketch comedy and stand-up on the family’s living room television with his dad.
“I think my dad’s probably the funniest dude I’ve ever known. He’s a big fan of comics from Mexico, so I have vivid memories of him putting on this show called ‘La Casa de la Risa,’ it was like a Mexican SNL (Saturday Night Live), in a way. So, it was a lot of sketches with famous comics and writers, but also a lot of stand-up,” he says. “My dad would put that on for me every week, and I didn’t realize at the time how it would impact me or what it would mean to me, but I have such good memories of being a kid in the living room with my dad just watching comedy.”
That bond over comedy would grow into finding his favorite online creators and television content, to studying film after high school, to the kinds of scripts he’s drawn to writing as a young filmmaker. When he sent off his comedy short submission to the annual San Diego Latino Film Festival, he didn’t put pressure on himself to get accepted — but his submission was accepted and it felt good. His film, “Rizz Assist Gone Wrong,” is among the schedule of 150 dramatic, comedic, shorts, feature length, animated, and documentar...
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