Sleep Dealer

• Director: Alex Rivera
• Writer: Alex Rivera, David Riker
• Cast: Luis Fernando Peña, Leonor Varela, Jacob Vargas
• Theatrical Release Date: April 17, 2009 8:42 AM
• Distributor: Maya Entertainment
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Synopsis: "Sleep Dealer" is our tomorrow today, a corporation-controlled, militarized near future where the United States has successfully closed its borders. Finally. Through American technology we have developed a capacity, a digital network, to have all the work with none of the workers constructing our buildings, picking our fruit, manning our planes. Memo Cruz (Peña) lives with his parents and his brother in the small, dusty village of Santa Ana del Rio, in Mexico. Santa Ana is an isolated farming community, the kind of place that seems frozen in time -- except for the hi-tech, militarized dam that was built by a corporation, and now controls Santa Ana’s water supply. One night, while using his homemade radio, Memo stumbles across something he’s never heard before – the communications of the security forces that are constantly patrolling the area around his village, to protect the dam from ‘Aqua-Terrorists.’ Unknown to him, or his family, Memo is now under the crosshairs. [Synopsis courtesy of Maya Entertainment]