Kira Akerman

Jazz students at Warren Easton high school in New Orleans travel to Santiago de Cuba and play music with students there. Together, they create an epic parade.

Hollow Tree follows three teenagers coming of age in their sinking homeland of Louisiana. For the first time, they notice the Mississippi River’s engineering, stumps of cypress trees, and billowing smokestacks. Their different perspectives — as Indigenous, white, and Angolan young women — shape their story of the climate crisis.