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Synopsis
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.
Title | The Ball Method |
Companies | University of Southern California, USC School of Cinematic Arts, The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Production Grant |
Countries | United States of America |
Keywords | hawaii, leprosy, based on true story, chemist, leper colony, black history, 1910s, african american history, short film |

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
NurseAaron Louie
PatientChristian Medina
PatientDebbie Kindred
PatientMarco Chiong
StudentMegan O'Grady Greene
VisitorJack Crish
StudentChiayu Tsai
Photo PatientJan Remcee Redondo
PatientLouis Shapiro
VisitorGaia Trinity
PatientAbron Suttles
PatientAlexander Bozicevich
Student