The West coast premiere of Professor Julie Wyman’s documentary The Tallest Dwarf will be part of the San Francisco International Film Festival with screenings on April 26 and 27.

The film charts 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. She joins 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. Through its personal and expanding perspective, the film invites audiences to a new way of seeing. 

The April 26 screening will be at noon in the Premiere Theater in the San Francisco Presidio and the screening on April 27 screening will take place at noon at the Pacific Film Archive at BAMPFA in Berkeley. For details visit the Festival’s website. 

Letters & Science Magazine features a detailed article about the film.