Tulipanes Latino Art & Film Festival

The Dancing Chickens of Ventura Fabian is the National City 2007 Tulipanes Film Award winner for "Best Short Film."

The Dancing Chickens of Ventura Fabian is a lively, bilingual musical video visit with master woodcarver Ventura Fabian and his family in their small rural village of San Martin Tilcajete, nestled in the hills outside the colonial city of Oaxaca in southern Mexico. Every member of this campesino/artesano family works together to create some of the country’s most colorful and creative folk art — the hand-carved, hand-painted wooden figures that have become one of Mexico’s most popular contemporary crafts.

Cartoneros is the National City 2007 Tulipanes Film Award winner for "Best Educational Film."

Cartoneros follows the paper recycling process in Buenos Aires from the trash pickers who collect paper informally through middlemen in warehouses, to executives in large corporate mills. The process exploded into a multimillion dollar industry after Argentina’s latest economic collapse. The film is both a record of an economic and social crisis and an invitation to audiences to rethink the value of trash.

Just as the rivers of the Andes mountains twist and coil in a curious maze, so does the grave situation of Peruvian women’s health care.

Within the past decade, the Andean women in Peru have faced a massive sterilization campaign, exorbitant fines for homebirths, remnants of a deadly civil war, and the second highest maternal death rate in South America. Yet, as they have for centuries, the Quechua and Aymara people are fighting to preserve their traditions, beliefs and integrity.

There are thousands of women in New York City taking care of other people’s children. Everyday they arrive at households prepared to pick up where moms leave off.  They’re on the playground, at the park, in preschool lobbies with arms outstretched.  They work long hours with no benefits to keep kids safe and parents happy.  Although these women form the invisible backbone of New York City’s economy, their stories are seldom told.

Shadow of the House is an intimate portrait of the Cuban-American photographer Abelardo Morell. Morell’s life is utterly ordinary on the surface but our understanding of Morell deepens as layer after layer of the man and his influences are revealed: his strange and compelling journey fleeing Castro in the early sixties and growing up in NY as a teenager; his life as an American family man; a Cuban refugee, more American than Cuban, but not an American citizen; a photographer who feels safer working at home but whose career increasingly pulls him into the outside world.

Northeastern Brazil is at war during the 1930s and outlaws called “cangaceiros” plunder and kill in the name of justice. Lampião is the most feared of them all. Maria and her parents, living on a farm near in a small village, offer Lampião’s gang shelter. As a result, they are attacked and Maria’s parents are killed. She meets and marries Filipe, but their marriage will be tested when his nephew, Coriolano, develops an attraction to her. The story of Filipe and Coriolano’s love for Maria is full of twists and turns and has an unexpected ending, in which the three of them find happiness, each in their own way.

Just as the rivers of the Andes mountains twist and coil in a curious maze, so does the grave situation of Peruvian women’s health care.

Within the past decade, the Andean women in Peru have faced a massive sterilization campaign, exorbitant fines for homebirths, remnants of a deadly civil war, and the second highest maternal death rate in South America. Yet, as they have for centuries, the Quechua and Aymara people are fighting to preserve their traditions, beliefs and integrity.

The story of a man who is mysteriously chosen to receive a strange box with a glove inside. From that moment on he becomes a part of a plan that may change his life forever.

El Cimarrón is the National City 2007 Tulipanes Film Award winner for "Best of Show."

El Cimarrón, is a love story about a young African couple that takes place during the slavery era at the turn of the nineteenth century. Violently seized from their African homeland, these youngsters arrived in chains in crowded, sweltering cargo holds aboard Spanish vessels destined to a Caribbean island to be sold as slaves. Eventually, they are both acquired by a malevolent Spanish landholder. After several futile attempts to escape, Marcos finally wins his freedom and returns to liberate his beloved Carolina and many other slaves.

Tulipanes kicks off the weekend for everyone with our first-ever outdoor mainstream movie, Happy Feet™. Bring your friends and family, lawnchairs and blankets and relax under the stars!

In the great nation of Emperor Penguins, deep in Antarctica, you’re nobody unless you can sing--which is unfortunate for Mumble, who is the worst singer in the world. He is born dancing to his own tune--tap dancing.

Thousands of people leave their impoverished Central American countries to get into the USA. By crossing the Northern border of Guatemala into Mexico they’re embarking on one of the most dangerous migration routes in the world.

In a small border town in the farthest South of Mexico migrants try to jump on a freight train that shall carry them to the US-border. But hardly anybody manages to make the 5,000 km trip. Already on the outset of their journey they get mugged by youth gangs and fall prey to corrupt border officials. They fall exhausted from the train or get arrested in large-scale raids by the Mexican migration police and army, who jail them for days and deport them.