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Short film about my Baba by David Sheffield.

Without Expectation from Story Collector on Vimeo.

Baba’s good friend David wrote and magazine article about him. Here is his reading of it until I can get a scanned copy. From what I believe Link Magazine is a type of travel periodical.

Any press is good press! http://www.northumberlandtoday.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2096842

Posted on YouTube, the sketches feature the older of the two men as a dysfunctional eccentric Iranian father and the younger as a his clueless Canadian son.

One of the early posts, featuring the elder reciting poetry in Farsi and mysteriously appearing occasionally with the arms of a woman has been viewed more than 130,000 times.

Other posts have been viewed in the tens of thousands.

The most recent post involves Firooz serving food to his son and William’s subsequent reaction.

While William attended Humber College where he took a degree in comedy writing and performance, the two men claim the idea to do the sketches came to them when it was discovered a camera William gave his dad for Father’s Day could record video with fairly good quality. They made a short video of themselves playing ping pong rather aggressively.

Since then 26 sketches have been recorded.

You can read the whole article by following the link at the top. Baba has the hardcopy that has our photo in it which I’ll scan because the photo is apparently ridiculous.

The Pedar va Pesar DVD is now being distributed through IndieFlix. You can buy it online in two flavors: stream it or order a DVD. Sweet! You can also still buy the Collectors Edition of the DVD from me using the sidebar link. Doubly Sweet!!

This is a really cool accomplishment for Baba and I. We’re really pleased and thankful to our fans that keep us going. Thank you

Baba and I were featured in a college newspaper article: Humber Et Cetera

Son’s YouTube video of dad a hit
Comedy students learn how to build a career using the internet

Josh Kerr
BIZ/TECH REPORTER
Published: February 4, 2009

From a basement in Grimsby, Humber graduate William Hooshmandi unintentionally turned his father into an Internet celebrity.

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