About the Show

The two-hour movie is inspired by the true story of Albertan Robert Wraight, a man trapped between the agenda of a powerful oil company and the growing campaign of sabotage and violence of the environmental extremist Wiebo Ludwig.

For the first time on screen, Burn: The Robert Wraight Story brings together three members of the same acting family. Gemini Award-winner Jonathan Scarfe (The Sheldon Kennedy Story, Judas) stars as Robert Wraight and his father, Alan Scarfe (aka: Albert Walker, Once A Thief), stars as Wiebo Ludwig. Jonathan's mother Sara Botsford (The Arrow, The West Wing) plays Meredith Farley, a community liaison officer for Northward Petroleum. The cast includes Kristin Booth (Foolproof, Blessed Stranger) as Wraight's wife Marita, Alexandra Harvey as Sara Wraight, Brendan Prost as Bobby Wraight and Katelyn Leckie as Kymmy Pearen.

The movie opens as Robert Wraight moves his young family to a small northwestern Alberta town with the simple dream to make a decent living and raise his children in a safe environment. When he befriends neighbour Wiebo Ludwig, he realizes their families are experiencing the same strange symptoms and sudden illnesses. Even the livestock are born deformed and sick. Convinced that sour gas wells near his property are the cause of their problems, Ludwig draws Wraight into his escalating, controversial battle against the oil and gas industry. Wraight is confident "the enemy" is the unregulated industry, but soon matters get terribly out of hand. Oil wells are being destroyed and people are getting hurt. Wraight begins to realize that Ludwig is out of control. In trying to stop the man who has become a personal hero, Wraight becomes an RCMP informant and enters into a world where he believes no one is to be trusted; not the oil company that promises to help his family; not the police who assure protection and certainly not the courts who need him as the star witness against Ludwig.

"Burn: The Robert Wraight Story sheds light on the impact of the petroleum industry on the environment. It is a fact-based account of the environmental drama that played out in Alberta in the late 1990s between Wiebo Ludwig and the mighty oil industry," said Director Stefan Scaini, "but told from the perspective of Robert Wraight, a simple family man caught at a moral crossroads."

Burn: The Robert Wraight Story is inspired by the Governor General Award-winning book Saboteurs: Wiebo Ludwig's War Against Big Oil by Andrew Nikiforuk. The teleplay is written by Sean O'Byrne (Mystery, Alaska, 100 Days in the Jungle) and Shelley Eriksen (Cold Squad). Stefan Scaini (Under the Piano) directs. Burn: The Robert Wraight Story is a co-production between Tapestry Pictures' Heather Haldane and Mary Young Leckie (Prom Queen, Tagged: The Jonathan Wamback Story, Shattered City) and Alberta Filmworks' Doug MacLeod and Randy Bradshaw (Agent of Influence, Crazy Canucks).