Logo Use

Guidelines for using the official logo of the Polish Film Institute.

The logo, full name (Polish: Polski Instytut Sztuki Filmowej; English: Polish Film Institute) and abbreviated name (Polish: PISF; English: PFI) are protected trademarks; their use always requires explicit consent of the Polish Film Institute. Requests for permission to use the logo (static or animated), full name or abbreviated name of the Polish Film Institute should be sent (along with a brief explanatory statement) to the Film Culture Promulgation and Promotion Department (Dział Upowszechniania Kultury Filmowej i Promocji) of the Polish Film Institute:

phone: + 48 22 42 10 229, email: logo@pisf.pl

Guidelines for including the logo of the Polish Film Institute in promotional publications

The actual size of the Polish Film Institute logo should be comparable with surrounding logos. The letters of the inscription “Polski Instytut Sztuki Filmowej” and/or “Polish Film Institute” that forms an integral part of the logo cannot be smaller than an 8pt font (i.e. 2.8 mm in height). The logo protected area is 1 mm around the rectangle formed around its external edges, considering that the lettering “Polski Instytut Sztuki Filmowej” and/or “Polish Film Institute” is an integral part of the logo.

Guidelines for including information regarding the involvement of the Polish Film Institute in co-financing a project in the film’s opening and end titles

1. The Polish Film Institute reserves the right to place its animated logo sequence (9 seconds) before the film’s opening titles.

2. If producers are named in the opening titles, information about the participation of the Polish Film Institute should be placed as either “Polish Film Institute” or “A Polish Film Institute Co-financed Production” (Polish version: “Polski Instytut Sztuki Filmowej” and “Film współfinansowany przez Polski Instytut Sztuki Filmowej” respectively).

3. Information about the participation of the Polish Film Institute in a given film project should be included in the end titles after all other producers are named. This statement should look as follows:

"A Polish Film Institute Co-financed Production
General Director - Agnieszka Odorowicz"

If other co-producers are mentioned by institutional name only, this statement should look as follows:

"A Polish Film Institute Co-financed Production"

4. The logo of the Polish Film Institute should be placed at the bottom of the end credits, alongside other producers’ logos.

5. The logo of the Polish Film Institute must be placed in its bilingual version, i.e. with the name of the Polish Film Institute written in both Polish and English.

6. The Polish Film Institute cannot appear in a film’s copyright note.

7. The film’s score credits as submitted to collective rights management organizations (in Poland: Stowarzyszenie Autorów ZAiKS) should include the following information regarding sound in the animated logo sequence heading of the Polish Film Institute:

composer: Janusz Grzywacz
title: “Polish Film Institute Jingle” (Polish: “Jingiel PISF”)
time: 7 seconds

8. The Polish Film Institute reserves the right to approve the final layout of the opening and end titles in all areas pertaining to the Polish Film Institute.

To receive credit layout approval of the Polish Film Institute, the producer is requested to send the opening and end titles to the Polish Film Institute by email: logo@pisf.pl or fax: +48 22 42 10 162. For additional information please call + 48 22 42 10 229.

The Polish Film Institute grants approval within five working days of submitting opening/end titles by the producer via email or fax.

Translated by Karolina Kołtun