Alex Rivera (born 1973, in New York City) is an American film maker,
best known for his films about labor, immigration, and politics.Rivera
was born in 1973 in New York City, New York. His father is a Peruvian
immigrant and his mother is an American citizen. Growing up as a
bicultural youth in New Jersey, he took an interest in the fields of
film, digital media, and science fiction. He is well known for his
work Sleep Dealer, which premiered in the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.
He was awarded the Creative Capital Moving Image Award, Alfred P.
Sloan Foundation Feature Film Prize and the Waldo Salt Screenwriting
Award.Rivera studied political science and media theory at Hampshire
College, graduating in 1995. He is also a New York-based digital media
artist and filmmaker. Due to his knowledge and background in
cinematography, his work address concerns of the Latino community
concentrating on political issues such as migration, race and gender.
In addition he uses language as a form of satire and humor to enhance
the understanding Latinos contributions within various Anglo
communities, much like the mockumentary A Day Without a Mexican.
According to his website alexrivera.com, Rivera states that "over the
past ten years he's been making work that illuminates two massive and
parallel realities: the globalization of information through the
internet, and the globalization of families, and communities, through
mass migration."Rivera, captures the process of migration and the
social changes immigrants face in order to be considered a model
United States citizen. The issues that are presented through his films
impact the Latino communities because of the realism that is presented
by characters in his films. They establish relationships with
audiences, not only from the Latin/Latino community, but from all
those who have experience dehumanization from their host countries.
Rivera wants his viewers to understand that the "American Dream, is
five minutes into the future, where the relationship between
technology and a variety of political issues where it is precisely
through a visualization of the dehumanization of migrants through
technology that the film engages with their humanization."
best known for his films about labor, immigration, and politics.Rivera
was born in 1973 in New York City, New York. His father is a Peruvian
immigrant and his mother is an American citizen. Growing up as a
bicultural youth in New Jersey, he took an interest in the fields of
film, digital media, and science fiction. He is well known for his
work Sleep Dealer, which premiered in the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.
He was awarded the Creative Capital Moving Image Award, Alfred P.
Sloan Foundation Feature Film Prize and the Waldo Salt Screenwriting
Award.Rivera studied political science and media theory at Hampshire
College, graduating in 1995. He is also a New York-based digital media
artist and filmmaker. Due to his knowledge and background in
cinematography, his work address concerns of the Latino community
concentrating on political issues such as migration, race and gender.
In addition he uses language as a form of satire and humor to enhance
the understanding Latinos contributions within various Anglo
communities, much like the mockumentary A Day Without a Mexican.
According to his website alexrivera.com, Rivera states that "over the
past ten years he's been making work that illuminates two massive and
parallel realities: the globalization of information through the
internet, and the globalization of families, and communities, through
mass migration."Rivera, captures the process of migration and the
social changes immigrants face in order to be considered a model
United States citizen. The issues that are presented through his films
impact the Latino communities because of the realism that is presented
by characters in his films. They establish relationships with
audiences, not only from the Latin/Latino community, but from all
those who have experience dehumanization from their host countries.
Rivera wants his viewers to understand that the "American Dream, is
five minutes into the future, where the relationship between
technology and a variety of political issues where it is precisely
through a visualization of the dehumanization of migrants through
technology that the film engages with their humanization."
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