The Ball Method
2020•NR•19m•Released
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.
Director
Dagmawi Abebe
Writer
Javier Carmona, Dagmawi Abebe
Languages
English
Studio
University of Southern California
Cast
Kiersey Clemons
Alice Ball
Wallace Langham
Dr. Dean
Kyle Secor
Dr. Hollmann
Kristian Ventura
Patient
CJ Uy
Kalani
Shannon Corbett
Nurse
Edward Stasik
Visitor (as Ed Stasik)
Elizabeth Hales
Nurse Addie
Cailin McDonald
Nurse Harper
Ernie Rivera
Test Patient 1
Roma Lucero
Nurse
Aaron Louie
Patient
Christian Medina
Patient
Debbie Kindred
Patient
Marco Chiong
Student
Production
Company
University of Southern California
Company
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Production Grant
Company
University of Southern California, School of Cinematic Arts
Producer
Yeon Jin Lee
Producer
Mehmet Gungoren
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