"The Tallest Dwarf": Film and Talk with Julie Forrest Wyman

The Tallest Dwarf follows filmmaker Julie Forrest Wyman as she searches for her place in the little people community and unpacks rumors of dwarfism in her own family. Through intimate stories, creative collaborations, and archival history, the film delves into identity and medicine, asking whether society should change people or the structures that limit them.

Join us to watch this Independent Lens film and hear from the director/participant Julie Wyman and others. An Indie Lens Pop-Up presentation.

When: Wednesday April 22nd at 6 PM

Where: City College of NY, Shepard Hall, Room 290/291

259 Convent Avenue at 140th Street. (#1 to 137st, ABCD to 145th Street, Accessible route: #6 to 125th street, M101 to 140th street)

ASL and CART accessibility. Light refreshments served. Questions to [email protected].

Presented by Third World Newsreel and the Documentary Forum at CCNY.

Julie Forrest Wyman’s work engages issues of embodiment, body image, and the possibilities and problematics of media spectatorship – all informed by her experience of living with hypochondroplasia dwarfism. Her 2012 documentary Strong! premiered at AFI Silverdocs and was broadcast nationally on PBS’s Emmy award-winning series, Independent Lens, where it won the series’ Audience Award. Wyman’s work has been supported by Sundance, Sandbox, IDA, SF Film Society, Points North, ITVS, the Creative Capital Foundation, The Princess Grace Foundation, California Humanities, and NEH. She has been a fellow at the UC Davis Feminist Research Institute and a resident of SF Film Society’s Filmhouse, Siena Art Institute, Logan Nonfiction, and Points North. Her films, including FatMob (2016), Buoyant (2005), and A Boy Named Sue (2000), have aired on Showtime, MTV’s LOGO-TV, and have been exhibited on five continents. She serves as Associate Professor of Cinema and Digital Media at UC Davis.

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