Iran’s Saba Animation Center is producing an animated series reminding people of tips to prevent spreading coronavirus. With no dialogue, the one-minute movies each is composed of 26 episodes.
Titled Coronavirus, the episodes carry messages narrated at the end in Persian, English, French, Spanish, Italian, Arabic, Turkish and Kurdish.
Produced by Alireza Issai, the episodes in the series will be aired as public service advertisements during intermissions between regular programs on IRIB’s various channels. Pejman Malemir, Hesam Javaheri, Behnam Berenji and Azadeh Nikbar are the directors of the series penned by Ali Zaranduz, Leila Zarqi and Shabnam Fattahi.
Iranian artists have taken an active role to raise people’s awareness of coronavirus – Covid-19. Earlier in mid-March, Iranian cartoonist Jamal Rahmati announced that he has used characters from Persian poet Ferdowsi’s magnum opus, the Shahnameh, to make an animation series named The Seven Adventures of Coronavirus on coronavirus.
