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Julie Forrest Wyman

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Professor of Cinema and Digital Media

  • Cinema and Digital Media
  • Performance Studies
Room 318, Maria Manetti Shrem Art Hall
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"The Tallest Dwarf" charts filmmaker Julie Forrest Wyman’s quest to find her place within the Little People (LP) community at a moment when dwarf identity is poised to radically change. Wyman is director, writer and producer of the film.

Julie Forrest Wyman’s creative 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 2025 documentary The Tallest Dwarf (SXSW 2025) broadcast nationally on PBS’s Emmy award winning series, Independent Lens. 

Wyman’s work has been awarded support from 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 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. Professor Wyman teaches Filmmaking Foundations, several upper division production courses such as documentary production and experimental filmmaking, and production and post-production courses in the advanced filmmaking/ capstone series. She also teaches a spring distribution seminar ("Where Do Films Go") that produces the annual FilmFest at UC Davis.