Tulipanes Latino Art & Film Festival

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.

El cimarrón narra la historia de amor de una joven pareja africana durante la época de la esclavitud, a principios del siglo XIX.  Sacados por la fuerza de su patria africana, estos jóvenes llegaron encadenados y hacinados en las asfixiantes bodegas de las embarcaciones españolas que se dirigían al Caribe.  Su destino: ser vendidos como esclavos.  Ambos son comprados por un malévolo terrateniente español.  Tras varios intentos de fuga fallidos, Marco consigue finalmente su libertad y vuelve para liberar a su amada Carolina y a muchos otros esclavos.

PRECEDED BY THE GLOVE/EL GUANTE

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.