961891
961891

The Ball Method

2020-05-18 en 19m
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

Writer

Dagmawi Abebe

Associate Producer

Alazar Aklilu

Associate Producer

Jena Jarvis

Producer

Yeon Jin Lee

hawaii leprosy based on true story chemist leper colony black history 1910s african american history short film

Status

Released

Countries

  • United States of America

Companies

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