On Our Own Island

The film is a timeless true love story that chronicles the seasons of a relationship from its romantic beginnings through life’s final moments.

[8] Meanwhile, at the start of the film’s production, Dylan-Robbins had just completed a short documentary about birth, the beginning of life, as a journalist at The New Yorker magazine.

With his death looming, the family’s focus shifted to finding ways to make his end-of-life experience peaceful and consistent with the values they embraced.

[8] In 2020, in the film’s final stages and after six years in production, Dylan discovered boxes of love letters from Robbins to her in the attic of their home.

Reviewers and audiences alike have lauded the film’s honesty, grace, and much-needed mission "to ignite a quiet revolution by empowering people everywhere to take back control of their end-of-life experience[7] and “recognize that death and love intersect…mitigating society’s fear of death, and at the same time, supporting the idea that unconditional love is the most important thing of all.