‘Speechless’

Filmmaker George Hickenlooper and screenwriter Alan Sereboff have created a series of clever digital shorts in support of Hollywood’s striking writers.

The “Speechless” campaign features prominent actors like Sean Penn, Holly Hunter and Harvey Keitel.

The shorts will debut throughout this long holiday weekend on Nikki Finke’s blog, Deadline Hollywood Daily. (Three cheers to Ms. Finke for her indispensable blow-by-blow coverage of the strike so far.)

Here’s the most recent short posted, featuring Jeff Garlin of “Curb Your Enthusiasm”: