Alaska Highway on fiktioelokuvistaan tutun Aleksi Salmenperän ensimmäinen dokumenttielokuva. Pohjois-Amerikassa kuvattu roadmovie on englanninkielinen. Salmenperä tunnetaan palkituista elokuvistaan Paha perhe, Miehen työ sekä Lapsia ja aikuisia.

Ohjaajan sana
Aleksi Salmenperä

"Useimmat meistä todennäköisesti ajattelevat vaurauden tai rakkauden olevan avaimia vapauteen.
Tämän elokuvan päähenkilön avain on jotain paljon konkreettisempaa.
Paljon käytännöllisempää ja samalla järjettömämpää. Sellaista mitä keskiluokkainen mieli ei edes unissaan osaa tavoitella.
Alcan Highway on päiväkirja  yhden unelman matkasta kohti täyttymystä."

Director’s Biography And Selected Filmography

Aleksi Salmenperä (born 1973) is one of the most acclaimed and distinctive Finnish film makers. In addition to having been awarded for feature films such as A Man's Job (2007) and Producing Adults (2004) Salmenperä's esteemed career also includes the direction of remarkable Finnish television series e.g. Pioneer (2006) for YLE (Finland's national public service broadcasting company) and Freefall (2002) with the improvisational theatre group Stella Polaris. Starting from the short film Ferry Go Round (2001), done as a school practical work and selected into the Cannes film festival, Salmenperä's films have received many film industry awards as well as high praises in Finland and abroad. Aleksi Salmenperä was selected as Best Finnish Film Director in 2007. His films A Man's Job and Producing Adults were selected as official Oscar entries for Finland. In 2008 he was invited as a member of EFA. His latest film Bad Family was selected into the Berlinale Film Festival's Panorama section. Before studies in the Film Department of the University of Art and Design (graduated 2003) Salmenperä studied for four years in the Finnish University of Technology in the department of Architecture.

Director´s word

"Most of us believe that wealth and love are the keys to freedom. The main character of this film has something much more practical in mind.
More concrete and yet insane.  Something beyond the imagination of a middle-class mind.
Alcan Highway is a filmed diary of one dream on its way to fulfillment."