Alex Rivera is a filmmaker and digital media artist. Over the past 8 years he’s engaged with digital imaging technology to tell new, urgent Latino stories. His work consistently aspires to push the limits of the form - occasionally through the use of humor and satire, occasionally through subtle, stylistic interventions.
Awards
Toas Talking Pictures Festival , 2003 - Cineaste Award
Morelia International Film Festival, 2003 - Best Short Documentary
Sundance Film Festival, 2002 - NHK Award, Best American Screenplay
Cinefestival, San Antonio, 1997 - Best Experimental
Black Maria Film Festival, 1996 - Director’s Citation
New York Expo of Short Film and Video, 1995 - Silver Award in Documentary
Chicago Intercom Competition - Silver Hugo
Grants
Rockefeller Foundation, MacArthur Foundation - Support for documentary work 2003
Sundance Institute - 2000, 2001 Fellow
Rockefeller Fellow - March 1998
Creative Capital - Jan 2000
Jerome Foundation - May 2000
US/Mexico Fund for Culture - Sept. 1998
New York Foundation for the Arts - May 1998
Lyn Blumenthal Fund for Independent Cinema - August 1998
Filmography
The Sleep Dealer Feature Film in Progress, 2003
Writer, Director
The Sixth Section Documentary, 2003 Broadcast nationally on POV in 2003
Director, Producer
Borders A Series of Documentary Shorts for POV, 2002
Director, Producer
Las Papas del Papa 8 min. 2000 Narrative
Director, Co-Writer
Invisible America.com Web Page 2000
Designer, Writer, etc.
Cybracero.com Web Page, 1999
Designer, Writer, etc.
Animaquiladora/ Why Cybraceros? 5 min. 1997 Mockumentary
Director, Writer, Camera, Editor, Animation
Papapapá 25 min. 1995 Documentary
Director, Writer, Camera, Editor
Distribution
Papapapá, Animaquiladora/Why Cybraceros?, and Las Papas del Papa are distributed by Third World Newreel, Video Data Bank, Subcine.com and Alex Rivera.
Selected Screenings and Broadcasts
National Broadcast on PBS - The Sixth Section on P.O.V.
September 2, 2003
National Broadcast on PBS - Why Cybraceros? on Independent Lens
February, 2003
Guggenheim Museum, NY - Why Cybraceros? Opening for Charlie Chaplin’s ‘Modern Times’
2001
Guggenheim Museum, NY, and Bilboa - Generation Ñ
Various dates 2000
Telluride Film Festiva - 1999 Festival
September 1-4 1999
PBS/WYBE Philadelphia - Through the Lens
September 16, 1997
PBS/WNET - Reel New York
June 22, 1997
New Museum of Contemporary Art, NYC - Roving Eye
March 1997
San Francisco Exploratorium - Exploring Boundaries
January-March 1997
Lincoln Center, NYC - New America, New Americans
October 24, 1996
International Film Seminars - Robert Flaherty Film Seminar
August 8th, 1996
The Museum of Modern Art, NYC - New Documentaries
May 2, 1996
The Nuyorican Poets Cafe, NYC - Video Poetry Night
September 14th, 1995
Selected Visiting Artist/Residencies
Eyebeam, NYC
Artist in Residence - 2002-2003
Bronx Museum - ‘Bounce’ Guest VJ
February 15th, 2002
New Museum - Youth Program Artist
August 2001
Digital Flaherty Seminar - Featured Artist
November, 2001
Rensellear Polytechnic University - Artist in Residence
Fall, 2001
Ithaca College - Featured Artist
September 16, 2001
New York University - LatinAmerican Studies Dept.
March 10, 2000
AIVF/Libraries for the Future - Digital Divide
February 24, 2000
Pitzer College - Featured Artist
February 14, 2000
BorderHack, Tijuana MX - Featured Artist
1999
Massachusetts Institute of Art - Guest Artist
February 17th, 1999
Brandeis University - Visiting Artist
November 6,1997
School of the Art Institute of Chicago - Visiting Artist
October 26, 1997
Northwestern University - Computer Graphics Dept.
October 24, 1997
University of California, San Diego - Graduate Arts Seminar
February 15, 1997
Selected Lectures/Panels
Race in Digital Space
February 1st, 2002
Whitney Independent Study, Empire State
May, 2002
Idependent Feature Project, Digital Divide
Sept. 2000
New York Latino Film Festival, Digital Millenium
June 2000
Guggenheim, Generatioon Ñ
Feb. 2000
Brown University, Latino History Month
April 9, 1998
Hunter College, Immigration Forum
March 9, 1998
Antioch College, State of the Documentary
July 1997
New York Expo Short Film and Video
November 1995
Other Accomplishments
Tepeyac School of Communications 2000 - present
Alex Rivera worked with La Associación Tepeyac, the largest association of Mexican immigrants in New York, to found a video school. The school exists within the association and is now run by members of the association and funded by grants. Students of the school have produced both documentary and fictional videos about their experiences as undocumented immigrants in New York City.
SubCine.com 2000 - present
Working with eleven other filmmakers, Alex Rivera founded SubCine.com, a distributor entirely focused on selling Latino film and video to the educational market. The distributor is unique in that it is structured as a collective, allowing the makers to promote the work of other members as they promote their own work, and to retain more profit from each sale.
Background
Born New York City, 1973
BA received Spring 1995, Hampshire College, Amherst MA
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