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SUMMARY:Discuss “The Infiltrators” with director Alex Rivera
DESCRIPTION:Alex Rivera is a filmmaker who has been telling new\, urgent\, and visually adventurous Latino stories for more than twenty years. His first feature film\, Sleep Dealer\, won multiple awards at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and the Berlin International Film Festival. Rivera’s second feature film\, a documentary/scripted hybrid\, The Infiltrators\, won both the Audience Award and the Innovators Award in the NEXT section of the 2019 Sundance Film Festival\, Best Documentary Feature at the Blackstar Film Festival\, and is currently being developed as a scripted series by Blumhouse Television. Rivera’s work has been supported by the Ford Foundation\, the Tribeca Film Institute\, the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation\, the Open Society Institute\, Creative Capital\, and many others. Alex studied at Hampshire College\, was the Rothschild Lecturer at Harvard University\, and is currently a distinguished lecturer of media studies at Queens College. \n\n\n\n\nAbout The Infiltrators\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Infiltrators is available on many platforms\, including Amazon and theinfiltratorsfilm.com.\n\n\n\n\nWithout warning\, Claudio Rojas is detained by ICE officials outside his Florida home. He is transferred to the Broward Transitional Center\, a detention facility used as a holding space for imminent deportations. Terrified of never seeing him again\, Claudio’s family contacts the National Immigrant Youth Alliance (NIYA)\, a group of activist Dreamers known for stopping deportations. Believing that no one is free as long as one is in detention\, NIYA enlists Marco Saavedra to self-deport with the hopes of gaining access to the detention center and impeding Claudio’s expulsion. Once inside\, Marco discovers a complex for-profit institution housing hundreds of multinational immigrants\, all imprisoned without trial. \n\n\n\nDirectors Cristina Ibarra (in her Sundance debut) and Alex Rivera (Sleep Dealer\, 2008 Sundance Film Festival) design a hybrid cinematic language\, combining familiar documentary form and scripted narrative to map an uncharted domain: inside an Obama-era immigration detention system. Based on true events\, The Infiltrators is both a suspenseful account of a high-stakes mission and an emotionally charged portrait of visionary youth fighting for their community.
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