Alex Rivera is a filmmaker whose work explores themes of globalization, migration, and technology. His first feature film, Sleep Dealer, won multiple awards at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and the Berlin International Film Festival. His second feature, a documentary/scripted hybrid titled The Infiltrators, won the NEXT: Audience Award and the Innovator Award at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival.
Rivera’s work has been supported by the Ford Foundation, the Rauschenberg Foundation, the Open Society Institute, Creative Capital, and others. He studied at Hampshire College, was the Rothschild Lecturer at Harvard University, and is currently an Associate Professor at ASU’s Sidney Poitier New American Film School, where he co-founded the Borderlands Cinematic Arts research center. Rivera is also a 2021 MacArthur Fellow.