Tulipanes Latino Art & Film Festival

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.

PRECEDED BY THE DANCING CHICKENS OF VENTURA FABIAN

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. Combining documentary footage of home and village life, interviews, and animated musical segments of Don Ventura’s whimsical creations, the video opens a window onto the daily life and unique world of this artisan family.