Sundance Film Festival

By Claiborne Smith

International Documentary magazine wrote that Alex Rivera “may represent the best hope of the contemporary cinema”; he was named one of “20 to Watch” by Filmmaker magazine; and he was profiled in a book about the future of Latino media. He was also the subject of a memorable caption from a 2003 article in The New York Times about an Iraq War protest: “Alex Rivera, camera in hand, was tackled by police officers yesterday near Rockefeller Center and taken away.” Read on at Sundance