Special Report: Julie Wyman on The Tallest Dwarf (2025)

Special Report: Julie Wyman on The Tallest Dwarf (2025)

Mike sits down with Julie Wyman, director of The Tallest Dwarf — a documentary that is as personal as it is political.

When filmmaker and UC Davis professor Julie Forrest Wyman set out to make The Tallest Dwarf, she discovered she has hypochondroplasia dwarfism herself — and that hers is the last of a body type she has inherited. The film charts her quest to find her place within the little people community at a moment when dwarf identity is poised to radically change, exploring everything from the legacy of exploitation to the thorny ethics of pharmaceutical interventions promising to make little people taller.

Visually striking, humorous, and touching, The Tallest Dwarf invites audiences to rethink identity, disability, and what it means to belong in a world that wants to change who you are.

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