Although 17 years have passed since the Latin American cyberpunk film debuted at Sundance ... As a Peruvian American filmmaker born in New York City, Rivera derived his fictional world-building ...

So the Latino family uprooted because of the U.S. and CIA-backed civil war in El Salvador, coming here, giving birth to a son or a daughter, who then joins the armed forces and is dispatched back ...

(Elana Marie / De Los; Photos via the MacArthur Foundation and Alex Rivera) Militarized water sources. Robot farmworkers. Commercialized memories. Everything is for sale in Alex Rivera’s 2008 ...