The national Turkish Radio and Television (TRT) Corporation has nominated two Iranian screen productions for its International Documentary Awards.
Reza Razavi’s Seconds of Lead and Arash Lahouti’s Trucker and the Fox have been selected to vie at the competition.
Seconds of Lead features the efforts of an Iranian author Narges Abyar on the particular issue of the massacre of demonstrators during the reign of Iran’s last monarch, in 1978.
Lahouti’s Trucker and the Fox screens the life of a truck driver who is a documentarian as well and works on wildlife.
Iranian filmmaker Mohammed-Ali Hashemzehi’s Mokan won the Special Prize of Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Turkey at the 2012 edition of the annual TRT.
The 2013 winners are scheduled to be hailed during a ceremony that will be held in Istanbul on May 13.
Established in 1964, TRT has more than 10 television channels as well as over 10 radio channels.
As the national public broadcaster of Turkey, TRT Corporation organized National Documentary Awards in 2009 and then added the international category in 2010.
TRT International Documentary Film Competition aims to support amateur and professional documentary filmmakers, and to contribute to the development and prevalence of the documentary film genre.
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