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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

Dagmawi Abebe

Writer

Javier Carmona

Director of Photography

Bash Achkar

Associate Producer

Alazar Aklilu

Co-Producer

Chris Bauer

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