The Challenge

Timothy Walley's story spans years: a foster placement as a critically ill infant, a rare genetic kidney condition, dialysis, and an eventual transplant, before arriving at an active eight-year-old who finally feels like a normal kid. Children's of Alabama needed a pediatric patient story film that could carry that full arc for a Children's Miracle Network audience without losing the weight of the years in between.

The Approach

Ninety Nine Natives builds patient story and hospital donor videos around a family's full journey, not a single milestone. This film moves through three acts: the decision to say yes to a very sick baby as first-time foster parents, years of dialysis and uncertainty at Children's of Alabama, and the kidney transplant that gave Timothy "a new body, a fresh start." Voices include Mom and Dad, Timothy's sister, and his nephrology and transplant care team.

The Execution

The film opens with the Walleys' decision to foster Timothy, grounded in archival photos and a quiet, reflective moment. It moves through the grind of hospital life, dialysis, repeat visits, a family rebuilt around Children's of Alabama, shot on location so the hospital feels like a character, not a backdrop. It closes in the present: Timothy playing outside with his family, doing the ordinary things transplant made possible, in his own words, finally a normal kid, like his friends.

The Result

The film gives Children's of Alabama a Children's Miracle Network Champion video that shows, rather than states, what pediatric care and organ transplant treatment make possible. Told through the family and care team who lived it, it turns Timothy's transplant into evidence of what Children's of Alabama does every day.