PROJECT GALLERY
The Project Gallery is a collection of projects produced by members of our fiscal sponsorship program and other Creative Visions impact media programs. This includes projects that are currently in production, as well as completed projects.
The Birthday Song
CAUSE: Climate, Community Empowerment, Empowering Women & Girls
CATEGORY: Film
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Megan Tillman
The Birthday Song is an intimate remembering of Micah’s 13th birthday, the day she learns a Category 5 hurricane is set to make landfall in her city in less than 48 hours. In the midst of a lively Black family birthday gathering, as Micah wrestles with her own set of adolescent issues, a storm brews in the gulf. Unbeknownst to her, this storm will shape American history, and change the course of her entire life.
The film lends a specific voice to a story the world knows, portraying Katrina through an intimate lens via the eyes of a young Black girl who never made the headlines. The Birthday Song tells the story of the-calm-before-the-storm. Capturing the ordinariness of New Orleanians’ lives before Katrina—what it felt like the day before, when everything felt normal—until it didn’t.
The film lends a specific voice to a story the world knows, portraying Katrina through an intimate lens via the eyes of a young Black girl who never made the headlines. The Birthday Song tells the story of the-calm-before-the-storm. Capturing the ordinariness of New Orleanians’ lives before Katrina—what it felt like the day before, when everything felt normal—until it didn’t.