A programme that DMA Media helped produce for BBC Persian TV has been shortlisted for an award for “Best TV current affairs documentary” by the Association of International Broadcasters.

‘The Election That Shook Iran’ documented the most turbulent period in Iran’s recent history – the period leading up to June’s disputed elections and the violence that followed. The half hour programme was broadcast in Farsi on BBC Persian TV and in English on BBC World, and it made extensive use of ‘user-generated’ videos sent directly to the channel from eyewitnesses in Iran.

The Executive Producer of the programme was DMA Media’s Senior Consultant, Patrick Hubbard, it was presented by BBC Persian’s Sima Alinejad. It was commissioned by Rob Beynon, DMA Media’s CEO who was then Acting Head of Persian TV. Click here for the full story of DMA’s involvement with BBC Persian TV.

BBC Persian TV has also been shortlisted by the AIB in two other categories for the documentary ‘Taste of Iran’ and for its marketing campaign ‘Stories That Connect Lives’.