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About

 

Starfish Lane Productions is a small, independent company focused on documentary films. The company’s founder, Laura DeBruce, who lives on Sanibel, started filming scenes for On Sanibel: The Hurricane Diaries after she fractured her wrist upon her initial return to the island after Hurricane Ian.

Laura’s previous work in creating films was with her friend and then-neighbor, Laura Hambleton, through their mutually owned company, Hunt Avenue Productions. Hunt Avenue Productions films include: Speed Skate, a story about young speedskaters in the Washington, DC area with dreams of competing at the Olympics co-produced with Sarah Patton of Stone Lantern Film; Pink State Politics: A New Virginia, a film that explores the women in the State of Virginia prior to the 2008 Presidential election; and The Pantheon de la Guerre for the National World War I Museum.

Videographer

 

Chad Hatcher,
Director of Photography
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Last summer, my dear friend Laura DeBruce asked me to write a song for her new movie about Sanibel Island during and after Hurricane Ian a couple of years ago. So I quickly wrote this melancholy take on the storm and the island’s renewal that followed. Paul provides soaring trumpet lines, Andrew offered up his soulful fiddle, newcomer Cristian Bortoli holds it down with his acoustic bass, Mauro Regules shakes it up on percussion, and the ever-amazing Schöneberg Session Singers (Ellen Hinsey and Mark Carlson) give the vocals an incredible richness. Keep an eye out for Laura’s movie, On Sanibel: The Hurricane Diaries, both locally around southwestern Florida and on various streaming platforms. And until then, enjoy the video we put together.

The Gincident
February 1, 2024

Song for Sanibel

by the Gincident

Wind it’s a rising, sky’s growing dark
Midnight at noon, like the skin of a shark
World sliding sideways, rain’s gonna come
What will we find when all’s done and gone?

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust
Like a desperado goin’ for bust
Sea’s gonna steal everything that it can
Sweep through the streets, over your land

Oh, Oh, Sanibel
Oh, Oh, Sanibel
Ain’t got no rudder, can’t lift my sail
How could I have lost you in the gale, Sanibel

I feel like a singer who lost his band
Like a castle turned back into sand
Can’t get my bearings in this hurricane
We’ve still got each other to ease the pain

Oh, Oh, Sanibel
Oh, Oh, Sanibel
Hard to believe how far we fell
This slice of heaven all went to hell, Sanibel

Never knew it could get this hard
My whole life piled up in the yard
I lost my anchor, Sanibel
What was it sank her? Sanibel

When everything’s gone, ain’t no way but up
Drop by drop, refill my cup
Ashes and dust forge heaven from hell
We’ll find the pearl when we open the shell

Oh, Oh, Sanibel
Oh, Oh, Sanibel
Oh, Oh, Sanibel
Oh, Oh, Sanibel