Tulipanes Latino Art & Film Festival

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.

Never underestimate the power of the dark side.

Xavier del Monte is a small-town circus clown whose ambition takes him to the big city. An ad agency selects him as the Hot Dog Clown, the media character of a fast-food campaign that appeals to children and mothers. Success changes his life and he moves into an uptown apartment, buys a new car, enjoys shopping and falls in love. But the ad agency forbids him from exposing his true self to the public. At the top of his success, Xavier feels empty deep inside and does not know why. Now he will have to choose between affluence and happiness.       

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.

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.

Everyone Their Grain of Sand is the National City 2007 Tulipanes Film Award winner for "Best Documentary Film"

This award-winning documentary reveals the struggles of the citizens of Maclovio Rojas in Tijuana, Mexico as they battle the state government’s attempts to evict them from their homes to make way for multi-national corporations seeking cheap land and labor.

This film documents the lives of Quechua people who live around Ausangate, a sacred peak in southeastern Peru. It is based on anthropological research conducted over twenty years and reveals how the weavers make textiles encoded with symbolic images that reinforce ancestral beliefs during rituals and in everyday life.

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.

Padre Nuestro is the National City 2007 Tulipanes Film Award winner for "Best Feature Film."

Caco is not your average father. Stubborn and irrepressible, he is dying of an incurable and unrevealed disease. Before passing on, however, the old man decides to flee the hospital where he is held against his will to reunite with his daughter, two sons and the wife he abandoned years ago for another woman.