Three Roads to Oaxaca

Written by Evan Gaustad Story by Spencer J Brewer

Based on a True Story

 

Austin, 1975: Three young hippies set out on an adventure hitchhiking separately to Oaxaca. After excursions of life-affirming experiences and brushes with death, they find something they didn’t know they were looking for… themselves.

Three Roads to Oaxaca is a true story set in 1975. We follow three carefree hippies in their 20s, Michael, Leslie, and Thomas, as they ditch responsibility in favor of freedom, each taking different routes hitchhiking from Austin to Oaxaca. The journeys involve run-ins with federales, hallucinogenic sojourns, encounters with miraculous strangers, and episodes that make each traveler question their own mortality and reason for being. A coming of age story from a bygone era, Three Roads to Oaxaca shows how the right journey at the right moment can change your life forever.


 

Festivals & Competitions

"One of the script’s most attractive qualities is the tone that the writer creates for the narrative, which immediately signals to the audience that this script is a bildungsroman-esque story about three people finding their paths in the 1970s." Miami Screenplay Awards


Screen Shot 2021-03-20 at 9.02.54 AM.png
Screen Shot 2021-03-20 at 9.02.23 AM.png
AOE Three Roads To Oaxaca.jpg
FINALIST-BigAppleFilmFestivalScreenplayCompetition-2021SpringEdition.png
Semi-Finalist- NY International Screenplay Award

Semi-Finalist- NY International Screenplay Award

Official_Selection_FFIFF2021 copy.jpg
Portland Semi Finalist.jpeg
Scriptation-Showcase-Quarter Finalist-2021[2] copy 2.jpg

 

Historical Photos