This outrageous marketing parody film guides viewers through the rise and fall of George and Monty, who manage to captivate audiences in all the wrong ways.
An unpredictable internet and commercial sensation, George and Monty lack any discernable talent or intelligence, and nothing about them makes any sense.
In this absurd “documentary,” they carelessly wield the power of the camera with catastrophic results in their absurd workplace training videos, alternative advertising campaigns, dating websites, connections to North Korea, multiple branding fails, re-editing of major motion pictures, and seemingly ruining the lives of everyone they touch (well no, not like that).
In a world where appearance supersedes reality, you won’t know what’s real or fake.
The story of George and Monty needed to be told but nobody is sure why – they still don’t make any sense – none of this makes any sense!
D
irector Statement:
Our project started as a silly short-form comedy sketch and after making a handful of comedy shorts, we challenged ourselves to write a narrative that threaded the shorts together into a cohesive narrative “mockumentary” – both as an opus to our sketches and as a nod to comedies like Spinal Tap, Borat, and What We Do In The Shadows.
As of February, 2026, the version uploaded onto Film Freeway is fully colored, mixed, and mastered.
We hope that you enjoy the film and Jason & I would love to come to the festival as well.
Thanks in advance for the time and consideration!
John Schwert.
Biography
John Schwert is a director, producer, and writer whose body of work spans feature and short films, commercial productions, and various digital content.
Sharing his time between the east and west coast, Schwert started making films in 2004 after he left his corporate advertising job, took a second mortgage on his home, and made his debut feature film Among Brothers.
Among Brothers is based on the real-life, unsolved murder of a college student in 1994 – which led to a two-hour Dateline NBC special, and subsequently prompted South Carolina law enforcement to reopen the cold case.
Schwert’s second feature film came four years later, when he wrote, directed, and produced In/Significant Others – a multi-narrative drama about interconnected lives in the wake of another unsolved homicide.
Schwert’s films have played at over 50 film festivals, are available on major streaming networks worldwide, and remain fixtures in the micro-budget indie film scene.
His latest feature film: This Is George & Monty – is Schwert’s first comedic feature film and based on the short film sketch series featuring Schwert himself along side of his writing, producing, and acting partner, comedian Jason Allen King.
George & Monty began as a sketch comedy show via Funny Or Die with Schwert and King successfully developing the series into the feature length This Is George & Monty mockumentary.