The Ball Method

The Ball Method

2020
⏱️ 19 minutes
📅 Released
🌐 EN
HistoryDrama
Alice Ball, a 23 year-old African American Chemist living in 1915 Hawaii fights against racial and gender barriers to find an effective treatment for leprosy before Kalani, a 10-year-old patient is exiled into the leper colony of Molokai.

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Cast

Kiersey Clemons
Kiersey Clemons
Alice Ball
Wallace Langham
Wallace Langham
Dr. Dean
Kyle Secor
Kyle Secor
Dr. Hollmann
Kristian Ventura
Kristian Ventura
Patient
CJ Uy
CJ Uy
Kalani
Shannon Corbett
Shannon Corbett
Nurse

Crew

Director
Dagmawi Abebe
Writer
Dagmawi Abebe, Javier Carmona
Producer
Mehmet Gungoren, Yeon Jin Lee

Production

University of Southern California, USC School of Cinematic Arts, The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Production Grant

Keywords

hawaiileprosybased on true storychemistleper colonyblack history1910safrican american historyshort film