About The Film

Rogue; The Story of a System Gone Wrong is a documentary from first-time 16-year-old filmmaker Joshua Wright in association with Universal Wildlands and New Leaf Media Group. This documentary will showcase the exploitation of our planet and people in the name of so-called progress. It will provide a new perspective by telling the stories of communities on the frontlines of the fight to save our planet and by examining the underlying economic and cultural system that values profits over the planet, products over people, and today over tomorrow.

I grew up as an expat and had always been aware of global warming. It just was something that was, but wasn’t affecting me. Living internationally and seeing landscapes ravaged by logging, I slowly began to open my eyes. I started researching, learning about methane release, industrial agriculture, the melting of the tundra. All around me I saw forests levelled, pipelines approved, the meat Industry expanding, and yet the media was focused on Trump. I learned that ocean acidification and overfishing would likely create fishless seas by 2048, and except for individual teachers and mentors my high school was training me to get a desk job to be “successful.” People were acting like we aren’t on a speeding train headed for a brick wall. I learned that we have 12 years left, well 10 now, and society was telling me to buy more stuff, buy it and I would be happy. I could not just sit around going through high school and college as I watched our living Earth slip away.

I had to do something.

Joshua Wright

Our PROGRESS

Rogue will examine three environmental issues in three international regions. In October 2018 our team visited Queensland, Australia where we spent almost a month shooting interviews, events and actions, to tell the story of the Carmichael Coal Mine, the Great Barrier Reef and the Galilee Basin. In July 2019 we traveled to the panhandle of Alaska to interview environmentalists, loggers and First Nation activists about old-growth logging on public lands and the last great temperate rainforest on Earth. We are wrapping up the shoot after filming with Extinction Rebellion in the Lost Coast of California

Joshua Wright @joshuawrightfilm is the Producer, Creator, Director, Secondary Cinematographer, and Editor of the film.

Andrew Wright of New Leaf Media Group is the Co Producer Cinematographer and Secondary Editor of the film.

Chris Wright is the Executive Producer, Travel Manager, and an Additional Camera for the film.

Rogue is a Joshua Wright documentary project, created in association Universal Wildlands and New Leaf Media Group.

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