Sleep Dealer (2008). Photofest.
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(Alex Rivera, US/Mexico 2008, 90 min., 35mm, English, Spanish w/subtitles)
In a near future of airtight international borders and militarized corporate warriors, an underground class of workers plug their nervous systems into a global computer network, becoming “cybraceros,” who manipulate robots from a distance. When a young Mexican man leaves his dying farm to become a “node worker” in the city, he stumbles across a sinister transmission that will pave the way for the cities of the future. Writer-director Alex Rivera’s prescient and socially committed work of science fiction won two prizes at the Sundance Film Festival.