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The new trailer for Alex Rivera's Sleep Dealer is out, and showing off the futuristic kill-the-poor TV show Drones. More »
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Embrace your status as a slave to the machine with the new official Sleep Dealer poster. That slumping back full of cyber-nodes says it all. More »
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The next step for cyberpunk movies is to include more of a global perspective, says Sleep Dealer director Alex Rivera. He's looking for the "cyberpunk of the South" or "cyberpunk of the developing world," and hopes his film will become the first branch of a whole new direction. Rivera came to San Francisco and showed clips from Sleep Dealer, plus some of his earlier short films, and we got a chance to ask him about his cyberpunk inspirations. Images, clips and trailer below. More »
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Last night at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn Sleep Dealer made its post-Sundance debut at the Imagine Science Film Festival, and you're now officially allowed to get excited for the film's 2009 wider release. Alex Rivera's first feature is a masterpiece — a modestly budgeted character piece that is the most exciting film in the genre released so far this year. More »
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Outsourcing gets taken to its furthest extreme in a super-advanced America of the future in Sleep Dealer, with menial workers telecommuting from South of the Border. Using Matrix style plugs, the worker jacks into the machine they are best suited for and "sometimes they control the machine, and sometimes the machine controls them." Watch the trailer below. More »
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Do you wish the zombies in I Am Legend had been more interesting and believable? Then you should be excited for near-future dystopia Sleep Dealer, judging from this brief teaser trailer and some new stills. Sleep Dealer is a bleak fable about immigration and cyber-slavery, but it's also yet another horrible future where science turns ordinary people into the walking (almost) dead. Click through for stills and details. More »
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