Alex Rivera
Producer
Alex Rivera is a filmmaker who has been telling new, urgent, and visually adventurous Latino stories for more than fifteen years. His first feature film, Sleep Dealer, a science-fiction feature set on the U.S./Mexico border, won multiple awards at the Sundance Film Festival and the Berlin International Film Festival, was screened as part of New Directors/New Films at the Museum of Modern Art and Lincoln Center, and had a commercial release in the U.S., France, Japan, and around the world. Rivera is a Sundance Fellow, Rockefeller Fellow, USA Artist Fellow, Creative Capital grantee, and was named one of Variety Magazine’s “10 Directors to Watch.” His recent collaborations have included work with Manu Chao, Maria Hinojosa and La Santa Cecilia. Rivera studied at Hampshire College and lives in Los Angeles.