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Artdaily (Free subscription) | 23/12/2008
... for the Golden Bear at the most recent Berlin International Film Festival (February 6–7); and Alex Rivera’s Sleep Dealer, a sci-fi thriller which was a winner of Sundance’s Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award and the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize. Tribute to Experimentation The tribute to Derek Jarman kicks off with the area premiere of Isaac Julien’s touching documentary about the...
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Bull City Rising (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
There's plenty in the papers today to peruse. We're working on follow-up on some of these stories in the coming days, but the highlights: Durham's historic preservation commission blocked NCCU's request to demolish the Alex Rivera house; Central plans to appeal to the state. (H-S) Development downtown reached $50.7 million in the recently completed fiscal year -- a decent number for a...
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Right Angles (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
The state says the former Durham home of civil rights photographer Alex Rivera is historic and should be preserved. Not so, says NC Central University, which owns the property and wants to knock it down to make way for more campus space. So who will decide whether the home is historic, or just an old [...]
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Filmmaker Magazine: Blog (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
I moderated a panel this rainy Sunday afternoon in New York with the five nominees for the Gotham Breakthrough Director Award: Lance Hammer (Ballast), Dennis Dortch (A Good Day to be Black and Sexy), Barry Jenkins (Medicine for Melancholy), Antonio Campos (Afterschool) and Alex Rivera (Sleep Dealer). I'm not a big fan of reading (and writing) panel conversation blow-by-blows, but it was...
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Film Junk (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
... Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman, Anthony Bregman, Spike Jonze, Sidney Kimmel) Sleep Dealer (Alex Rivera, Anthony Bregman) Sangre De Mi Sangre (Christopher Zalla, Per Melita, Benjamin Odell) JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD Prince of Broadway Take Out The Signal Turn the River In Search of a Midnight Kiss BEST SCREENPLAY Woody Allen, Vicky Cristina Barcelona Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck, Sugar...
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RopeofSilicon: Latest Headlines (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
... A Good Day to be Black and Sexy Lance Hammer, Ballast Barry Jenkins, Medicine for Melancholy Alex Rivera, Sleep Dealer Breakthrough Actor Pedro Castaneda, August Evening Rosemarie DeWitt, Rachel Getting Married Rebecca Hall, Vicky Cristina Barcelona Melissa Leo, Frozen River Alejandro Polanco, Chop Shop Micheal J. Smith, Ballast Best Ensemble Cast Ballast Synecdoche, New York Rachel...
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[CinemaRatty] Lattest Articles (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
... Sangre” Director: Christopher Zalla Producers: Per Melita, Benjamin Odell “Sleep Dealer” Director: Alex Rivera Producer: Anthony Bregman “Synecdoche, New York” Director: Charlie Kaufman Producers: Anthony Bregman, Spike Jonze, Charlie Kaufman, Sidney Kimmel John Cassavetes Award (Given to the best feature made for under $500,000) “In Search of a Midnight Kiss” Writer/Director: Alex...
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New Haven Independent (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
Even Santa Has Parking Issuesby Allan Appel | December 1, 2008 8:06 AM | | Because the lot was full, Santa (aka Bob Hermann) explained that he was reasonably certain his sled and reindeer wouldn’t be towed as he had parked on the roof of the Sage American Grill. Or would they'Tayvon Goodwin (left to right), Alex Rivera, and Christopher Coughlin were among some 70 kids and their parents...
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Havana Times, ope (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
... The others are Paraiso Travel by Simon Brand Voloj, Emilio by Kim Jorgensen and Sleep Dealer by Alex Rivera.Riverside is a dramatic comedy that tells the story of Hernando Martinez a 55-year-old Colombian and his wife Marina who live in New York. The couple loses everything they own and are forced to live on the street as vagabonds alongside the river, among cardboard boxes, supermarket...
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Filmstalker (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
There's a new trailer for Alex Rivera's Sleep Dealer, a film which has won a few awards already and even seen Rivera nominated for a Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. The film is set in the future where borders are closed but people are connected through a global digital network. Through this network three strangers are drawn to each other and fight to connect in...
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Watch Us Explode! (Free subscription) | 24/11/2008
I’ll definitely be there… THE BREAKTHROUGH DIRECTOR’S PANEL Meet this year’s up-and-coming director nominees: Lance Hammer, whose film, BALLAST, received the most 2008 Gotham Independent Film Awards nominations (4); Antonio Campos (AFTERSCHOOL); Dennis Dortch (A GOOD DAY TO BE BLACK & SEXY); Barry Jenkins (MEDICINE FOR MELANCHOLY); and Alex Rivera (SLEEP DEALER). Past winners include...
