The Ball Method

The Ball Method

19 mins | May 18, 2020

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.

The Ball Method

19 mins | May 18, 2020

The Ball Method
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.
Producers University of Southern California, USC School of Cinematic Arts, The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Production Grant
Original title The Ball Method
Directors Dagmawi Abebe
Writers Javier Carmona, Dagmawi Abebe

Cast

Kiersey Clemons

as Alice Ball

Wallace Langham

as Dr. Dean

Kyle Secor

as Dr. Hollmann

Kristian Flores

as Patient

CJ Uy

as Kalani

Shannon Corbett

as Nurse

Edward Stasik

as Visitor (as Ed Stasik)

Elizabeth Hales

as Nurse Addie

Cailin McDonald

as Nurse Harper

Ernie Rivera

as Test Patient 1

Roma Lucero

as Nurse

Aaron Louie

as Patient

Christian Medina

as Patient

Debbie Kindred

as Patient

Marco Chiong

as Student

Jack Crish

as Student

Chiayu Tsai

as Photo Patient

Jan Remcee Redondo

as Patient

Louis Shapiro

as Visitor

Gaia Trinity

as Patient

Abron Suttles

as Patient

Anne Gundry

as Nurse