After accusations of design plagiarism, the Ismailia Documentary Film Festival poster was withdrawn | art

The management of the Ismailia International Film Festival for Documentaries and Shorts in Egypt was forced to withdraw the official advertising poster for the next session, a few hours after its release, due to the discovery of its violation of intellectual property rights, as it belongs to a person. Turkish plastic artists.

The festival organizers were criticized because they did not indicate or mention that the design was quoted, which forced them to withdraw the poster hours after it was published on the official page of the Ismailia International Documentary and Short Film Festival on Facebook.

The president of the festival, in its next session, Issam Zakaria, also made an official apology, saying that the poster was not used or printed, pointing out that he had taken a decision to cancel it and replace it with a new one, which will be designed later.

Zakaria added, in media statements, yesterday, Saturday, that the festival management will review the previous works of the designer who presented the poster, the subject of controversy, and continued: “Praise be to God, we discovered the mistake early (early) and we apologize to the people.”

The festival’s president also confirmed that what happened was not intended and that the artist who designed the poster had good previous works.

Local newspapers and news sites were like a newspaper site “Pyramids”It quoted the designer of the controversial poster – Hadeer Al-Sijai – as saying that his idea came “from the inspiration of the documentaries shown by the festival, and the relationship between cinema and the audience, in colors appropriate to the spirit.”

Activists compared the recently announced design by the festival management, and another one that is almost completely similar in the same colors to a second design, which had been published earlier on the network.PinterestTo publish the photos, which bloggers attributed to a Turkish artist.

The activities of the 24th session of the Ismailia Festival are scheduled to start from the 14th to the 21st of next March.

The Ismailia International Film Festival for Documentaries and Shorts is considered the first Arab festival that specializes in documentaries and short films, as its first sessions began in 1991.

In its current version, the course celebrates the cross-genre film (Hybrid), which is one of the most prominent film genres that filmmakers resort to in the modern era, as it mixes more than one film genre and form within a single film.