TEHRAN -- Two Iranian films have been nominated for TRT Documentary Awards, an international competition held by the national Turkish Radio and Television Corporation.
“Trucker and the Fox” by Arash Lahuti and “Seconds of Lead” by Seyyed Reza Razavi will be contending for the awards, which will be presented during a ceremony in Istanbul on May 13, organizers announced last week.
“Trucker and the Fox” chronicles the life of a trucker named Mahmud Kiani Falavarjani, a documentarian whose works are on wildlife.
“Seconds of Lead” reflects the efforts Iranian author Narges Abyar made to explore the massacre of demonstrators during the reign of Iran’s last monarch, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, in Tehran’s Jaleh Square on September 8, 1978.
The Turkish Radio and Television Corporation also known as TRT (Turkish: Türkiye Radyo ve Televizyon Kurumu) was founded in 1964; it is the national public broadcaster of Turkey.
It has more than 10 television channels and more than 10 radio channels. TRT Belgesel is dedicted to screening documentary films.
TRT Documentary Awards were first organized in 2009 on a national scale. The international category was added to the event in 2010.
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