All the World Is Sleeping

In New Mexico a young woman resolved not to make the same mistakes as her parents but addiction issues threatens her life with her own daughter.^[1]

Written and directed by Ryan Lacen, the project was produced by Anthony Baldino, Charlene Bencomo, Micaela Cadena, Ryan Lacen and Sonja Mereu.^[2] Lacen told Deadline Hollywood that "a unique collaboration with the non-profit Bold Futures" meant that the project "is not only based on the lived experiences of seven women with a history of addiction, it was made by them". He added "As a director, whose own family has been affected by addiction, my intention was to create a film that felt truthful".^[3] Barrera plays a composite character based on the experiences of Bold Futures (formerly known as Young Women United), which is a New Mexico-based reproductive justice nonprofit organisation.^[4]

The film was shown at the New York Latino Film Festival on September 16, 2021.^[2] The film became available to stream on-demand, and had a limited theater release in the United States on March 17, 2023.^[5]

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 100% of five critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7.2/10.^[6] Michael Talbot-Haynes in Film Threat described the film as a "genuine ethnographic study in the oral tradition as much as a dramatic feature" and that it is “one of the most honest and harrowing studies of addiction since Requiem for a Dream".^[7]