Tuesday 12/November/2024 – 11:06 PM
The Department of Photography at the Higher Institute of Cinema issued a statement expressing its denunciation of the Cairo International Film Festival administration’s neglect and refusal to facilitate the procedures for obtaining entry cards for the institute’s professors, explaining – according to what it said – that it is something that previous administrations that used to cooperate positively were accustomed to.
The statement, which he published on his Facebook account, stated: The Cairo Festival, which is organized by the Egyptian Ministry of Culture, must take into account the role of the Higher Institute of Cinema as one of the Ministry’s educational institutions that contribute to graduating generations of Egyptian and Arab filmmakers.
The Institute stressed the need to treat its professors with appropriate appreciation and respect, especially since the Institute’s graduates and students have, for decades, constituted the largest artistic bloc in the festival’s activities.
Statement from the Department of Photography at the Higher Institute of Cinema
The statement read: The Higher Institute of Cinema denounces the unjustified ignorance of the Cairo Film Festival administration and the administration’s refusal to facilitate the extraction of festival cards for the institute’s professors, which is unusual for previous administrations that cooperated positively and constructively, especially since the Cairo Film Festival is held by the Ministry of Culture and the Higher Institute. Cinema has one of its institutions.
The statement added: The Cinema Institute is considered the educational institution responsible for graduating generations of Egyptian and Arab filmmakers, and it is not appropriate for the Institute’s professors to be treated with this degree of lack of appreciation and respect. It is worth noting that the graduates, students and professors of the Higher Institute of Cinema are the largest artistic bloc in the festival’s activities throughout the previous decades. .
