EVENTS: 090217/Alex Rivera’s Sleep Dealer Sundance Award and Re-release of Shorts

EVENTS: 090217/Alex Rivera’s Sleep Dealer Sundance Award and Re-release of Shorts

To celebrate the launch of Alex Rivera’s first feature film, the Sundance award winning Sleep Dealer, SubCine is re-releasing all of Rivera's previous short works on DVD, for one low rate, with many bonus features, interviews, and commentaries.

B Ruby Rich in The Guardian writes:
"Rivera revives the promise of an American independent cinema that can intervene in our world, imagine the worst, hope for the best - and entertain like mad along the way."

The SubCine re-releases include:
The Sixth Section
The groundbreaking documentary that tells the story of how immigrants are organizing in America, in order to rescue their hometowns in Mexico.

Papapapá
The renowned experimental documentary which traces the history two Peruvian immigrants in America: the potato (la papa) and the filmmaker’s father (el papá).

Animaquiladora (Featuring Why Cybraceros?)
A collection of cutting-edge political satire shorts produced by Alex Rivera and Lalo Alcaraz (the cartoonist behind LA CUCARACHA). Why Cybraceros? is the short which would ultimately be expanded into Sleep Dealer.

Borders
A collection of shorts that looks at the consequences of a world in which products freely cross borders that people may not.

For a limited time, institutional buyers can purchase ALL FOUR of Rivera’s past work for one discounted price.
Reduced price for all four purchased together: $650 (a savings of almost 15%!).

We also hope you can check out Sleep Dealer, which will be in theaters across the country on April 17th. A.O. Scott of The New York Times writes:
"Perhaps the most overtly political film I saw was Alex Rivera’s “Sleep Dealer,” which was also the most exuberantly entertaining, a dystopian fable of globalization disguised as a science-fiction adventure... 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."

Please contact SubCine for more information on any of the cutting edge Latino film and video that we distribute, including Alex Rivera’s work.