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TEHRAN -- Actor Parviz Parastuii said on Sunday that, like director Rakhshan Bani-Etemad and actor Reza Kianian, he plans to sell his awards in an international auction to raise funds for homeless women in Iran.
In a press release published by the Persian service of ISNA, Parastuii, in advance, wished a happy Noruz for the Iranian people and added, “We should notice that there are some women living homeless in the four corners of our country.”
“They neither have a Haft Seen table nor any family, which they can visit during Noruz,” he stated.
He said that he will put on sale the awards that he received from some international events in Rome, Rabat, Jaipur and Belgrade for the benefit of homeless women.
In February, the Jaipur International Film Festival in India honored Parastuii with a best actor award for his roles in “Today” and “We Have a Guest”.
Earlier in November 2014, he won the best actor award at the 20th Rabat Auteur Film Festival in Morocco for his role in “Today”.
The selling of awards by Iranian cineastes for the benefit of homeless Iranian women is becoming a trend after “Tales” director Bani-Etemad announced her plan on March 6 to auction an award that she won at the 8th Asia Pacific Screen Awards in 2014 to raise funds for homeless women.
The auction is scheduled to be organized by the Toloo Bi-neshanha Society, a Tehran-based charity institute that prepares food for homeless people.
Afterwards, Kianian also said that he will join the charity auction with his awards.
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