TERNI – The short film is titled Escape routes they the actors are the inmates, the teachers of Ipsia Pertini who hold lessons in Sabbione, the penitentiary officers and prison operators.
Set in school classrooms, in the bread laboratory, in the spaces dedicated to beekeeping, in the library, in the penitentiary theatre, the short is an authentic testimony of the treatment activities carried out by prisoners and aimed at their reintegration into society. Interpreted and experienced by inmates, professors and penitentiary police officers and by all those who live in the educational and community places of the prison, the short is a sort of cinema verité in which the past, fears and hopes are transformed into painful but human and viable ways out.
Escape routes also from everything that relegates invisibility and to the flattening of a world, that of prison circuits, which could instead become a hotbed of expert reconstruction and humanizing hope.
«The realization of the project was possible thanks to the management of the prison and the precious availability of the commander, Fabio Gallo – says Michela Carobelli, who took care of the direction of the short film whose images were shot and edited by Francesco Scatolini. The final product takes on particular importance for the spontaneous, light, non-vulgar documentation of fragments of life of the penitentiary community in its constructive, supportive and strongly re-socialising intentions against the more banal culture of shouting and everything is going wrong”.
The Cer-car-e project was financed by the national social innovation program for the reintegration services of people serving criminal sentences: culture, development and social cohesion-fines fund in synergy with the prison management.
Escape Routes tells the story of the arrival in prison of a new teacher who has to teach prisoners. She’s scared, she doesn’t know the reality behind bars, she doesn’t know what to expect from this experience. Her meeting with an agent and her students makes her meet someone living and proactive reality, very different from the prejudices and fears she had before crossing the big gate. Most of the actors are Ipsia restricted students, who participated in the laboratory of the audiovisual and editing course and who collaborated with Michela Carobelli in the writing phase of the screenplay and then assisted in the filming phases.
«Some inmates were released from prison for the end of their sentence during the making of the short and this leads us to hope that they have a prospect of a future» he says.
Vie di fuga will be presented on Tuesday, at 4pm, at the BCT literary café Fabio Gallo, commander of the penitentiary police, by the principal of Ipsia-Cpia Fabrizio Canolla, by the teachers Michela Carobelli, Vincenza Depretis coordinator of the cpia, school center for adults and Claudia Cianca coordinator of the Ipsia secondary school in Sabbione.
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