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Sleep Dealer (2008)

Screening of Sleep Dealer, directed by Alex Rivera.

Tuesday, May 05, 2009
7:30 PM
UCLA James Bridges Theater
1409 Melnitz
Los Angeles, CA United States

Alex Rivera’s visionary Sleep Dealer looks at the near future from south of the border, combining science fiction and provocative social commentary. Forced to leave his small village, Memo Cruz heads to Tijuana, where migrant labor has become virtual. Fitted with nodes that connect their central nervous system to a supercomputer, laborers plug in and operate equipment on the other side of the border. Sleep Dealer, written by Rivera and David Riker, won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award and the Alfred P. Sloan Prize for best film dealing with science or technology at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Alex Rivera, led by CSRC Director Chon A. Noriega
 

Cost: Free and Open to the Public

Special Instructions

In Spanish and English with English subtitles. 90 min. Tickets for this free screening will be available at the Melnitz box office one hour before show time. Tickets are distributed on a first come, first served basis.

For more information please contact

Gloria Tovar
Tel: (310)825-4571

Sponsor(s): Latin American Institute, CRCS, UCLA Melnitz Movies