About Alex
Bio
Alex Rivera is a filmmaker and 2021 MacArthur Fellow 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. Rivera’s second feature, a documentary/scripted
hybrid, 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 many others. He studied at Hampshire College, was the
Rothschild Lecturer at Harvard University, and is currently an Associate
Professor of Filmmaking Practice in ASU’s Sidney Poitier New American Film
School, based in Los Angeles.