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IRAN - SHANE IS GUY MADDIN

Papa bear boss guy Shane Smith was recently in Tehran shooting a hunk of the Vice Guide to Film, a six-part series airing on IFC Canada this fall, where he embedded himself with the people from the Academy Awards to sneak into the Iranian...


Papa bear boss guy Shane Smith was recently in Tehran shooting a hunk of the Vice Guide to Film, a six-part series airing on IFC Canada this fall, where he embedded himself with the people from the Academy Awards to sneak into the Iranian International Urban Film Festival. Blah blah blah, a bunch of ridiculous awards were, um, awarded, and then they gave Guy Maddin some kind of foreign thing, only he wasn’t there. So Shane, being a rare person from another country at this prestigious event, got up and accepted it on Guy Maddin’s behalf, delivering a speech so touching and powerful (and in Persian) that it moved the mayor of Tehran to smooch him on the cheek. The whole story in Shane's very own words is living here over at Esquire right now. Esquire!