Rock | Plastic | Salmon

2025 | Coast Film & Music Festival

Duration: 28 min

Synopisis

Newfoundlanders have always been a resilient people, and, for many, moving past the economic and socio-cultural trauma of the 1992 cod moratorium presents two options. Do they continue down the path of industrial fisheries, this time in the form of salmon farming, or do they forge a new path founded on a conservation economy? Our film follows communities on the South Coast of Newfoundland and the unsung heroes who call it home. Told through the vivid and unmistakably local voices, we see individuals and communities standing up to the industrial scale salmon farming in an effort to protect the landscapes and way of life they love.

Featured at Coast Film & Music Festival 2025

Production Team

Josh Murphy is a director and producer who’s work focuses on impact driven narratives of people and planet and whose films have been commissioned by Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard, Protect Our Winters founder Jeremy Jones, and won multiple awards including the Tribeca Film Festival and a film that is now archived in the permanent collection at the MoMA. He is currently co-directing and producing a film about plastics and human health with Oscar winner Louie Psihoyos (THE COVE, RACING EXTINCTION, THE GAME CHANGERS) and recently co-founded LAND AND SEA FOR ALL —a non profit whose mission is to connect people and planet through better storytelling— and is directing and producing a number of impact driven films that focus on direct action at the nexus between mission aligned foundations, nonprofits and, and brands. His childhood idol was Jacques Cousteau and through him he discovered a love for film and the environment.