Julie Wyman
Julie Wyman (2022) is a filmmaker, performer and associate professor in the Department of Cinema and Digital Media at UC Davis. Her 2012 documentary, “Strong!,” premiered at AFI Silverdocs and was broadcast nationally as the season finale for PBS’s Independent Lens, where it won the series’ Audience Award. Julie’s work has been awarded support from the Sundance Film Institute, the International Documentary Association, California Humanities, ITVS and the Creative Capital Foundation. Her films, including “Buoyant” (2005) and “A Boy Named Sue” (2000), have aired on Showtime, MTV’s LOGO-TV and have been exhibited at New York’s MoMA, London’s National Film Theater, Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, the Wexner Art Center, the Walker Art Center and the Wadsworth Atheneum.
As a Logan Nonfiction fellow, Julie will work on the film “Untitled Dwarfism Project (UDP).” New drugs promising to make Little People taller are about to hit the market, and the prospect of their widespread use is rocking the close-knit community of Little People. Both a community portrait and a personal story of seeking belonging, “UDP” interweaves complicated histories, contradictory positions and ethical quandaries that resonate to and beyond the wider disability community.