On the podcast, 'Tech Won't Save Us,' host Paris Marx is joined by Alex Rivera to discuss his 2008 film Sleep Dealer and how it imagined exploitative technologies being implemented in a future Mexico of hardened borders and limited migration. Listen to the conversation here.
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Filmmaker Alex Rivera joins Henry and Colin to discuss his journey in border and immigration storytelling, blending documentary and fiction in The Infiltrators, and the power of bottom-up political pressure in shaping history. You can listen to the podcast here.
READ MOREApril 17, 2020
Post-screening Q&A with director Alex Rivera and UC San Diego Professor Curtis Marez follows a screening of "Sleep Dealer." This Sundance award-winning sci-fi thriller follows a young man in Mexico who ends up in a strange factory at the US-Mexico border that outsources migrant workers north via virtual reality. Alex Rivera’s “adventurous, ambitious, and ingeniously […]
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In 2014 Alex joined the Reverend Jesse Jackson, Maria Hinojosa, and others, at Morehouse College for a conversation about 'Diversifying the Innovation Economy.' He spoke about the need to imagine the future from diverse points of view.
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On August 10, 2014, NPR aired an in-depth interview with Alex Rivera covering drones as "The Meme of our Times"
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