ASU Comparative Border Studies 2013 Film Event with Filmmakers

Arizona State University’s Comparative Border Studies will show the film  Sleep Dealer at its first spring Film Event Tuesday and Wednesday, Feb. 12 and 13. Director David Riker and filmmaker Alex Rivera will be on hand to discuss the film.

 Tuesday, Feb. 12

7–10 p.m. at Phoenix Art Museum

Located at McDowell Road & Central Avenue 
in downtown Phoenix

1625 N. Central Ave., Phoenix

RSVP at http://borders.asu.edu/film-event

Wednesday, Feb. 13

6–9 p.m. at Arizona Historical Society Museum

1300 N. College Ave., Tempe

RSVP at http://borders.asu.edu/film-event

 SHORT SYNOPSIS

Sleep Dealer depicts a militarized world in the near future, graphed by closed borders, virtual labor and a global digital network that unifies experiences and minds, three strangers peril their lives to adjoin with each other and breach the fortifications of technology.

David Riker is a New York-based filmmaker and recipient of the Rockefeller, Guggenheim, and Annenberg Fellowships.  Ricker currently teaches screenwriting for Columbia University’s Graduate Film Program. Among Ricker’s numerous successes, was receiving the Waldo Salt Screen Writing Award at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival as a co-writer of the featured film Sleep Dealer.

 Alex Rivera, a filmmaker has been making films that explore the borderlands over the past fifteen years. His work focuses on the mental, physical, economic relationships between Latin America and the United States. Rivera’s work conjoins social questions and innovational cinematic language. 

RSVP required at http://borders.asu.edu/film-event

For more information please e-mail comparativeborder@asu.edu or call (480) 727-7583