
A while back, papa bear boss guy Shane Smith was in Tehran shooting the Vice Guide to Film: Inside Iranian Cinema 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. But to see it with your own two eyeballs be sure to catch it on IFC Canada this Friday, August 20 9pm ET.
