Sleep Dealer: Film Screening and Q&A

Filmmaker Alex Rivera presents his new film Sleep Dealer, which premiered at Sundance in 2008, followed by a Q&A. The first work of science fiction to win the Amnesty International Prize, Sleep Dealer is set in the near future, when the U.S.-Mexican border is closed by a massive wall, electronic surveillance, and drone patrols. The film engages many politically charged questions of today's globalized world: migration, the privatization of water, corporate power, security contractors, race, and labor relations. According to A.O. Scott of the New York TImes, "Mr. Rivera -- a brilliant young director -- takes his audience into a future of “aqua-terrorism” and cyberlabor that I wish I could dismiss as implausible."