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Join us for a conversation with filmmaker Alex Rivera to discuss his film The Infiltrators (Cristina Ibarra and Alex Rivera).
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THE INFILTRATORS is a docu-thriller that tells the true story of young immigrants who are detained by Border Patrol and thrown into a shadowy for-profit detention center— on purpose. Marco and Viri are members of the National Immigrant Youth Alliance, a group of radical DREAMers who are on a mission to stop unjust deportations. And the best place to stop deportations, they believe, is in detention. However, when Marco and Viri attempt a daring reverse ‘prison break,’ things don’t go according to plan. By weaving together documentary footage of the real infiltrators with re-enactments of the events inside the detention center, THE INFILTRATORS tells an incredible and thrilling true story in a genre-defying new cinematic language.
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Moderated by Lana Lin, Director of the Graduate Certificate in Documentary Media Studies. Co-produced by Documentary Studies Program Associate, Simon Tchoukriel, Documentary Studies ’21 & Media Studies ’22.Â
Presented by the Graduate Certificate in Documentary Media Studies at the School of Media Studies at the Schools of Public Engagement.
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Alex Rivera is a filmmaker whose work explores globalization, migration, and technology through fiction, documentary, and hybrid forms. His first feature film, a cyberpunk thriller set in Tijuana, Mexico, ‘Sleep Dealer,’ won multiple awards at Sundance and Berlin. Rivera’s second feature, a documentary/scripted hybrid set in an immigrant detention center, ‘The Infiltrators,’ won the NEXT: Audience Award and the Innovator Award at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, was released theatrically in the U.S., and is currently being developed as a scripted series by Blumhouse Television. Rivera’s work has been supported by the Ford Foundation, Creative Capital, the Open Society Institute, MacArthur Foundation, and many others.
Central to the Documentary Studies Certificate Program is Doc Talks, a monthly event series with contemporary film and video makers, festival programmers, new media distributors, editors, composers, sound designers, and others, who engage in an intimate discussion with students about their own work and the issues and challenges faced by documentary makers today.
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