The Ball Method
2020 | 19m | English
Popularity: 2 (history)
| Director: | Dagmawi Abebe |
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| Writer: | Javier Carmona, Dagmawi Abebe |
| Staring: |
| 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. | |
| Release Date: | May 18, 2020 |
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| Director: | Dagmawi Abebe |
| Writer: | Javier Carmona, Dagmawi Abebe |
| Genres: | Drama, History |
| Keywords | hawaii, leprosy, based on true story, chemist, leper colony, black history, 1910s, african american history, short film |
| Production Companies | University of Southern California, USC School of Cinematic Arts, The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Production Grant |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Feb 03, 2025 Entered: May 05, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Gaia Trinity | Patient |
| Abron Suttles | Patient |
| Alexander Bozicevich | Student |
| Anne Gundry | Nurse |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Javier Carmona | Writer |
| Rahman Altın | Music |
| Bash Achkar | Director of Photography |
| Jane Flowers | Casting |
| Dagmawi Abebe | Writer, Director |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Chris Bauer | Co-Producer |
| Jena Jarvis | Associate Producer |
| Lauren Lukow | Co-Producer |
| Alazar Aklilu | Associate Producer |
| Peter Hazel | Co-Producer |
| Yeon Jin Lee | Producer |
| Paul Wermager | Co-Producer |
| Mehmet Gungoren | Producer |
| Jenna Jarvis | Associate Producer |
| Tom Ogden | Co-Producer |
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