Jordi R. Roca has been the special guest at the event in the capital of Tenerife
SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Jan. 28 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The premiere of the European Outdoor Film Tour, the number one adventure sports festival, opened this Friday at the Teatro Guimerá in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, hanging the full poster with the attendance of 420 spectators who filled the room.
It is a benchmark event for mountain sports that has offered eight short films on mountaineering, mountain biking, trail running, paragliding, climbing, freeride and alpine expeditions on three continents in the capital of Tenerife, as reported by the organization in a note from press.
From England, France, Zambia, Norway and the United States, the faces of these unique documentaries have offered a transversal vision of inclusion, gender equality, zero poverty, alliances, responsible consumption, sustainable cities, and in favor of quality education through of the cinema-sport binomial.
In this sense, in Tenerife, the guest of the festival has been the prison worker and mountain guide, Jordi R. Roca, who has approached his project for the reintegration of prisoners focused on avoiding marginality, lack of training and addictions through the mountain.
The mountain “is an incredible setting that serves to channel therapy and training, and provides new useful tools to develop in life,” he said, in a strategy that already has “great results.”
“Getting out of potholes,” he continued, “from complications, gives you strength, peace of mind, releases anxiety and above all provides them with other channels to redirect their lives away from the addictions that have led them to prison.”
Roca added that the cinematographic facet is “incredible” and highlighted “the human part”, with eight people and eight stories “of overcoming, equality, integration” that are an example to discover the great potential of sport.
In this way, staff from the Santa Cruz de Tenerife penitentiary center have been part of the public, getting to know first-hand new formulas for social reintegration and their application in prisons.
