The Ball Method

The Ball Method

NR 2020 · 19 min · History, Drama

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.

Directed by Dagmawi Abebe · Written by Javier Carmona

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