Sanibel Movie

Sanibel is an award-winning feature documentary about the people of Sanibel Island, Florida, their love of seashells, and the community’s fight to recover after Hurricane Ian.

Winner of Best Florida Film at the 2024 Naples International Film Festival, Sanibel began as an offbeat, comedic portrait of a shell-obsessed island community and the eccentric, lovable people who call the island home. But on September 28, 2022, Hurricane Ian made landfall on Florida’s Gulf Coast, becoming one of the most destructive storms in U.S. history.

In the aftermath, the film crew returned to Sanibel with a new mission: to document the storm’s impact, the recovery effort, and the people working to save a lost paradise.

A documentary about shells, survival, resilience, and the people who call Sanibel home.