Film School Chronicles II: Freddy Marvasti

Freddy Marvasti, die-hard guilty pleasure addict, is one of the funniest and strangest people I've ever met. With his love of Rocky movies, Karate Kid movies and mocumentaries he's about the most laid back person I've ever encountered. And considering the people I know that's really saying something.

He coined our classes catch-phrase, getting "Chezzed" which is an abbreviation of the term dirty Sanchez, which means getting shit on your face which in turn means getting screwed. Now I'd never heard the term Dirty Sanchez so when its true meaning was graphically described to me with the aid of Nutella I was quiet horrified that such a thing was done often enough to even have a name. For those not in the know lets just say it’s a rather unhygienic version of a milk moustache.


(This picture Freddy & The Classic DS)

Things really got carried away with the whole chezzing business when we based our 35mm workshop commercial project on this concept...ugh ugh ugh...all I can say is that we were all perhaps overworked and at our wits end what with being weeks away from our thesis projects and all.

However in our class anyone going through a rough spot was soon known to all as Sanchez...this extended rather inappropriately to my thesis film, based on a young artist dealing with the death of his son and his wife leaving him and so on. When working with the actors we needed to come up for a name for the child which was neither present in the script or film. The product of late night rehearsals was the baby's moniker "baby Sanchez" providing much laughter to a somewhat heavy set, the film IN LIMBO was affectionately known on set as THE DEATH OF BABY SANCHEZ. I did suggest to Freddy that his thesis project should be a parody of my own :)