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Young and upcoming film maker, Alex Rivera’s first feature length film, Sleep Dealer hits the theaters this weekend. Not your average science-fiction film, Sleep Dealer is set on the border between the US and Mexico at a time when workers sell their virtual cheap labor across borders without actually crossing them, poor people sell their memories for a living, and corporations have succeeded in near-complete privatization of everything. Memo Cruz, a young man living in a dusty rural village in Mexico, taps into wireless communications as a hobby, accidentally leading him into the dangerous world of the so-called Sleep Dealers. The film breaks many barriers, including being almost entirely in Spanish (with English subtitles). Alex Rivera, who has no formal film training, spent over a decade making the film, which won major recognition at last year’s Sundance Film Festival, capturing the coveted Alfred P Sloan award. The New York Times called the film, “exuberantly entertaining, a dystopian fable of globalization disguised as a science-fiction adventure… with intellectual clarity and storytelling discipline.” Sleep Dealer is being distributed by Maya Entertainment, a Latino-run company, that has enabled KPFK listeners to help raise funds for the station through 30% of all the sale prices of all tickets whose stubs are turned in. More information about the KPFK funding at www.kpfk.org. I spoke with Alex Rivera earlier this week. <\/p>\n
GUEST: Alex Rivera, writer and director of Sleep Dealer<\/em>. <\/p>\n If you watch the film you\u2019ll be helping raise funds for KPFK. When you purchase a movie ticket between April 17-19th KPFK will receive 30% of the sale IF you drop off your ticket stub at KPFK or Imix Bookstore in Eagle Rock; or mail them to the station, attention \u201cSleep Dealer.\u201d Check www.kpfk.org<\/a> for more details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" | the entire program Young and upcoming film maker, Alex Rivera’s first feature length film, Sleep Dealer hits the theaters this weekend. Not your average science-fiction film, Sleep Dealer is set on the border between the US and Mexico at a time when workers sell their virtual cheap labor across borders without actually crossing them, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}