May 15, 2025 | 12 PM EST

In this timely case study, Julie Wyman shares her experience on her most recent film THE TALLEST DWARF. We’ll discuss its inception, to putting together an extraordinary team of Producers and Executive Producers, to pitching at CPH:DOX and other international forums, to the challenges that artists face in funding and distributing social issue, creative, and personal documentaries.  

Wyman has been working as an award-winning filmmaker over the last 25 years. She has powerfully explored themes on body image and identity – STRONG!, which won the 2012 Independent Lens Audience Award, FAT MOB, BUOYANT, and A BOY NAMED SUE are just a few.  

THE TALLEST DWARF follows Wyman’s quest to find her place within the little people (LP) community at a moment when dwarf identity is poised to radically change. As Wyman unpacks the rumors of “partial dwarfism” in her family she finds that hers is the last of a body type she has inherited. Joining forces with a group of dwarf artists to confront the legacy of being fetishized and put on display. Together they create films that reclaim a complicated history and speak back to the echoes of eugenics in the newly emerging pharmaceutical interventions that make little people taller.