reef Keepers

This is the story of the people healing Florida’s Coral Reef and finding resilience in themselves.

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about the film

In Florida, where water is life, a tight-knit group of coral conservationists fights to restore the reef that has protected the shoreline for generations.

REEF KEEPERS is a documentary film that follows the journey of scientists as they refuse to let the reef—and the communities that depend on it—slip away. Amid record-breaking heat waves, intensified hurricanes, and the emotional weight of loss, they aren’t just saving corals. They’re proving that stewardship, inventiveness, and grit can still turn the tide.

REEF KEEPERS is currently in production with an anticipated release in 2026.

A man wearing a blue shirt with a logo, a gray cap worn backwards, and goggles, is working over a water tank with oysters on a grid. The background is outdoors with trees and a building.

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Various pieces of coral growing on rock displays, marked with labels and placed on a grid.

SUpport & Sponsorship

Florida’s Coral Reef is worth an estimated $8.5 billion. But the reef has lost almost 90% of its Living Corals in the past 40 years.

Florida’s Coral Reef has experienced dramatic losses due to lethal diseases, bleaching, hurricanes, pollution, and record-smashing marine heat waves, most notably in 2023. Today, more corals live in land-based labs and artificial coastal nurseries than on the reef.

Conservationists across the state have set aside their differences to band together in a common cause—to keep enough corals alive to one day restore the reef that has protected and sustained Florida for millennia.

It’s a massive undertaking, too big for any one person and too long for one lifetime. But one thing is clear: No one is giving up.

REEF KEEPERS explores how three conservation scientists are tackling these challenges with Floridian moxie and determination and shows how we all have a part to play in the future of coral.

about the reef

Underwater scene featuring pink coral at the bottom of the ocean with blue water and sunlight reflections above.

JOIN US ON THE JOURNEY

A woman is working with food under blue lighting, possibly at a food conveyor or display counter, with a woman in a blue uniform visible nearby.
People gathered around a small boat, examining dials and wiring, with a woman holding a hose inside the boat, under a shaded outdoor structure during the daytime.
View of coral reefs with marine life, including a fish swimming among the corals in an aquarium or underwater environment.
Two women and a person, possibly a student, at an aquarium exhibit with tanks labeled 'Endemic Corals.' One woman stands talking to the student who is holding a white container with coral fragments. The background shows an indoor aquarium setting with tanks and equipment.