The Ball Method (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.

Director

Dagmawi Abebe

Writers

Javier Carmona, Dagmawi Abebe

Themes1910safrican american historybased on true storyblack historychemisthawaiileper colonyleprosyshort film