SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, July 6. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Museum of Nature and Archeology (MUNA) of Tenerife hosts from tomorrow until Saturday a new edition of the ‘Canarias Surf Film Festival’ (CSFF), an itinerant event that will tour all the islands until November and which represents a meeting point for filmmakers, athletes and businessmen linked to the practice of surfing with which they want to position the Canary Islands as a benchmark in this sporting discipline.
The Island Councilor for Museums and Sports, Concepción Rivero, highlighted in the presentation the multiple activities that this festival includes, as well as the variety of its themes, and emphasized the inclusion this year of several talks related to sustainability or care for the environment. environment, “two key issues for the sustainable future of Tenerife”.
To this he added that “this type of festival highlights how sport is an important source of economy for the island.”
The director of the festival, José María Cavero Vega, pointed out that “it is a festival that creates and stirs environmental awareness both through talks and through the screenings themselves” and stressed that “there is much work to be done to stop the degradation of the oceans”.
The festival has three days, each of which there will be a musical session with a DJ, talks or thematic conferences and the projection of a film or documentary, and its hours will be from 6:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. at night.
The musical offer will feature a different ‘dj’ for the three days of the festival and will include performances on Thursday by Dj Yaib, Tropical Ganster and Eva Soul and on Friday Dj Addams Marx, María Al Revés and Dj Gial Holap will take the stage while that on Saturday it will be the turn of Dj Ephemere, La Cangrejera and Dj Pureza.
As for the talks, tomorrow the program includes two presentations, one on training in and out of the water, by Carlos Suárez, and photography by Fonsi Martín and Jonathan González.
On Friday Pablo Martín and Javier Coello will speak about the island of the future while Lorenza Mazzola and Ruth Olapés will talk about family and surfing as a religion.
In relation to cinema, the festival program includes the screening of a dozen works related to the world of surfing.
