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JULIE 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) is broadcasting 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.