We took SAMFA’s wrist for violating the popular votes of the Fajr film

Theater News Base: Following some protests against the counting of votes in the 40th Fajr Film Festival, which is being held by the SAMFA system for the second year in a row, Abbas Naderan said: “There are rumors about the SAMFA system, one of which is the pre-sale of tickets.” We have big festivals where it is natural for tickets to their films to be sold very soon because of their names, like Mr. Kimiaei and Mohammad Hossein Mahdavian, but the pre-sale of some tickets in the two days before the screening of the film is extremely scandalous; That is, it is strange that a film that has not been seen, has no advertisements and its director is not a well-known person, the pre-sale of tickets has suddenly increased. But this is not what I mean by SAMFA, because this year there is a serious vote engineering in favor of a film.

He continued: “From the first day of the festival, when the screening of the films started, we had many calls from people who complained that the text message was not sent to them at all and they could not vote.” Personally, on the first day of the festival, I could not follow this issue very much, and I thought that there were technical problems and they would be resolved, but then I realized that the story is very strange; For example, in one case in Lotus cinema, 397 people watched the movie Shadruvan according to the cinema cameras, and surprisingly, only 20 people received text messages. On the first day of the screening of this film at the Cyrus Cinema Campus, we had 480 spectators in three halls: Khorshid, Mayak and Lalehzar, and we sold tickets, which were also present in the hall, but only 90 people were sent text messages. All these violations take place in a completely directed way in a certain series of cinemas.

In response to how he can prove this claim? He said: “From the first day we found out about this, without making a fuss, we collected the tickets from different audiences who sat down to watch the movie and said that no text message had been sent to them, without following up, that is, the original ticket.” Which we took from them when we entered the hall. Then, through the festival secretariat, we contacted the relevant officials in the SAMFA system and told them to send me the list of all the few people who say they saw the film in Kourosh Cinema, and they whistled for the first and last time and gave me this list. They left, because two hours later, when Kamran Hejazi (producer of the loser man) and I asked for the list a few days later, they refused to provide it to us under any circumstances. I matched the tickets with the list I had, and then it became clear that we have tickets that, according to the list claimed by SIMFA, its buyers did not go to the cinema at all. In last night’s meeting, in the presence of Mr. Mirzakhani (director of the Shahr Cinema Institute) and the security officials of the cinema organization, I showed all the documents. Mr. Mirzakhani, who insisted from the beginning that he would justify me, had no answer there.

Naderan added: “The noteworthy point in this case is the difference in the type of violations, that is, what happened in Lotus Mall is different from the violations in Kourosh Cinema.” In Lotus, there is no list of people who claim to have gone to the cinema. Last year, there was a lot of talk about the hacking of the SAMFA system, and this year the same thing has been repeated about Lotus Mall, and there are not even any details of the people, let alone whether they went to the salon or not; If we have tickets for people who have seen the movie.

The producer of Shadruvan stated that the person in charge of technology and information of the festival emphasized that there is no need for an observer to be present because the machine does everything in the popular voting: this machine is subject to the instructions given to it. Which is given to film A to be recorded for film B Can the machine detect this? This is exactly another type of violation that is taking place in the popular voting of the Fajr Festival, and the so-called information entry portal is being changed, and it is quite clear for which film this is happening.

Naderan noted that this is specifically happening for the movie “Private Meeting” and those who were in the meeting last night also understood the reason.

In the end, the producer of Shadruvan said: “There has always been speculation and slander about SAMFA, but for the first time, we have received a document and evidence for its violation.” I told the security friends of the Cinema Organization and Hashem Mirzakhani that I am not at all involved in controversy and interviews, but I will stand by my life on this issue and get my rights. It does not matter at all whether Simorghi is given or not, but I am following this case because I have documents that do not contain any hair. I agree with all these documents with SAMFA’s claims, so I advise all my friends to follow up on their story before it’s too late, because SAMFA has no reputation left. What I expect now is that the esteemed secretary of the festival and the head of the cinema organization, whose achievements we have reached this point during this period, will not allow a number of people who benefit from the symphonies and cinemas to play as the most important cultural symbol of the country. What is happening now is not only the discrediting of the popular Simorgh, but the discrediting of the entire Fajr Festival, and this government, which chants the slogan of transparency, justice and the fight against corruption, should at least try to prevent such a blatant violation.