Memo Cruz (Luis Fernando) lives with his family in the rural Mexican town of Santa Ana del Rio. He hates the idea of paying a large corporation high prices for small amounts of drinking water. He also ...

Speaking with The New Inquiry, writer-director Alex Rivera (Sleep Dealer) explains why the aerial drone has become such a powerful symbol for our time: a ubiquitous instrument of telepresence — and ...

One of the few science fiction films playing at Sundance, Sleep Dealer is heavily inspired by The Matrix and Fritz Lang's Metropolis and is situated in Mexico. The film is basically a mash-up of all ...

I'm sure this will get the attention of a few people. The teaser poster for Alex Rivera's Sleep Dealer has been revealed. The only problem is that I hated this film, I mean seriously hated it. So much ...

Rasquachismo. Sleep Dealer is a science fiction set in Mexico. In the script I described everything from exploding buildings and fighter-jet dogfights to remote-control robots. The effects were never ...

Alex Rivera's ambitious directing debut lacks the vision, or the budget, to pull off its fusion of sci-fi and aspirational saga. “The Matrix” goes down Mexico way in “Sleep Dealer,” but despite some ...

SLEEP DEALER is our tomorrow today, a corporation-controlled, militarized near future where the United States has successfully closed its borders. Finally. Through American technology we have ...

Maya Entertainment has acquired all U.S. rights to Alex Rivera's Sundance award-winner "Sleep Dealer." By Steven Zeitchik, The Associated Press NEW YORK — Maya Entertainment is taking a big step into ...

A small-town south-of-the-border father asks this of his son early in Sleep Dealer, and the quote resonates throughout the movie. This is a science-fiction film that uses its dystopian future to ...

A 2008 Sundance sensation, he's now artist-in-resident at Tales From Planet Earth. By Matt Patches Alex Rivera 2008 - P 2013 THR spoke to Rivera on his involvement with Tales from Planet Earth, what ...