The national Turkish Radio and Television (TRT) Corporation has nominated two Iranian screen productions for its International Documentary Awards
, Press TV reports.
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.