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Sleep Dealer

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Original title

Sleep Dealer

Year

2008

Running time

90 min.

Country

Mexico

Director

Alex Rivera

Screenwriter

Alex Rivera, David Riker. Story: Alex Rivera

Cast

Music

Tomandandy

Cinematography

Lisa Rinzler

Producer

Co-production Mexico-United States;

Likely Story, This is That, Maya Entertainment

Genre

Sci-Fi | Cyberpunk

Synopsis

Memo Cruz is a young peasant who lives with his parents in the small, dusty village of Santa Ana del Rio in Oaxaca. Memo loves technology, and dreams of leaving his village to find work in the hi-tech factories in the big cities of the north. Using his home-made radio, he unwittingly stumbles upon some communications, arousing suspicion. His house is destroyed by a remote-controlled bombing and he has to flee. On the way to Tijuana, Memo meets Luz, a journalist disposed to change the world, and together they try to establish a relationship beyond the technology.

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Awards: 2008: Sundance Film Festival: Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award

2008: Independent Spirit Awards: Nominated for Best First Feature

2008: Gotham Awards: nominated to Breakthrough Director.

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Critics' reviews

"'Sleep Dealer' is flawed, but still vibrant and inventive. Whether he finds larger budgets or keeps doing movie like this, Rivera is definitely a filmmaker to follow."

Peter Hartlaub: Houston Chronicle
"Alex Rivera's overstuffed but intriguing feature debut, Sleep Dealer, takes a speculative leap into Tijuana's near future, imagining the next evolution of cheap labor."

Michael Phillips: Chicago Tribune
"Clearly, Rivera knows one of the great gifts of the sci-fi genre. An uncanny world invites new ways of seeing. It offers new chances to ask the hard questions."

Lisa Kennedy: Denver Post
"The combination of rusty amateurism, future technology, and clear-and-present politics creates a trippy time-space kick: This dusty little movie feels like yesterday, today, and tomorrow."

Wesley Morris: Boston Globe
"Adventurous, ambitious and ingeniously futuristic, 'Sleep Dealer' is a welcome surprise."

Kenneth Turan: Los Angeles Times
"From the imperialist villains and their humanitarian abuses to the laborers dying on their feet, what's so clever about tricking out this worn-out tale of woe into a genre flick?"

Aaron Hillis: Village Voice
"'Sleep Dealer' is an unusually thoughtful science fiction film, using the speculative energy of the genre to explore some troubling and complex contemporary issues."

A. O. Scott: The New York Times
"Demonstrates the difficulties that result from leaving home to find work, but in classic B-movie fashion it has a lot of fun with it too"

Henry Stewart: Slant

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