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Yeon Jin Lee

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THE BALL METHOD is a short film starring Kiersey Clemons that tells the true story of Alice Ball, an African-American woman who found an effective treatment for leprosy at the age of twenty-three in 1915 Hawaii.

Supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation - The Sloan Foundation is a nationwide film program to support filmmakers at every stage of development who create narrative films about science and technology. The foundation's credo is that film can serve as a lens into society's most critical science and technology issues.

OFFICIAL SELECTION:

  • 26th Annual DGA Student Film Awards - Jury Prize.

  • 2021 Honolulu African American Film Festival.

  • 2020 Pan African Film Festival, Los Angeles.

  • 2020 Sarasota Film Festival, Florida.

  • 2020 BronzeLens Film Festival, nominated for Best Short Film.

PRESS:

  • Dag’s interview on NPR Science Friday

  • Massive Science Article

  • Chemistry World, published by The Royal Society of Chemistry

  • Selected for Drive-In Double Feature Screening at the Museum of Moving Image