An American gas station attendant named Benny Franklin and
Lupita Rodriguez, his young Mexican bride, head for Alaska in
their beat-up van to “get rich quick” by working on the
pipeline. A middle-class math professor from Mexico City
quits his job, deserts his wife and heads for Alaska on a
mysterious inner quest to reach the end of the road. An
upper class Jersey-girl gets involved in a cocaine deal that
ends in murder and escapes to Alaska to start a new life.
These three journeys converge one night in Mexico in Alaska,
a colorful taco restaurant in Anchorage. A story about the
search for identity in the last frontier, set against the
evocative and extreme landscape of the Alaskan wilderness.
Mexico in Alaska was written and developed through the
New Dramatists screenplay mentor program. Mentor: Matthew
Specktor, Fox 2000. Honorable Mention, Hollywood Symposium
Screenwriting Contest, 2000. Finalist, 1998 Sundance Institute
Screenwriter’s Lab and 2001 Scriptapalooza Screenwriting
Competition.
