The Ball Method

2020•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.

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Production

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

Language

Status

Released

Release Date

Where to Watch

Region US · Lang EN

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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

Megan O'Grady Greene

Visitor

Jack Crish

Student

Chiayu Tsai

Photo Patient

Jan Remcee Redondo

Patient

Louis Shapiro

Visitor

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