How We Look is a series of short films about dwarf culture and identity. Directed and produced by two little people (LP) artists Julie Wyman and Sofiya Cheyenne, the project utilizes a participatory mode of filmmaking, prioritizing inclusion and ethics in representing disabled lives, bodies, and stories. Unlike most minority communities, the legacy of Little People is not one of invisibility, but of hyper-visibility. Using a process that is performative, playful, and experimental, the project grapples with this complicated history, representing the artists' own lived experiences and utilizing our particular vantage point to speculate about the future place of dwarf and disabled lives and bodies. The project culminates in a series of films that imagine alternatives to the stereotypical, limiting, and medicalized ways that Little People have historically been represented.
Sofiya Cheyenne Perez - Director (Narrative)
Jonna McCone - Creative Producer
Lindsey Dryden - Producer
Loi Ameera Almeron - Associate Producer
Olivia West Lloyd - Line Producer/AD (Narrative)
Gabriella Garcia-Pardo - Director of Photography (Documentary)
Conor Murphy - Documentary of Photography (Narrative)
Veralucia Quispe - Sound Recordist (Documentary)
Rachel Villegas - Sound Recordist (Narrative)

Julie Forrest Wyman
Julie Forrest Wyman (Producer / Director) is an award-winning documentary filmmaker whose work aims to challenge and expand our culture's narrow range of represented bodies. Her films engage issues of embodiment, body image, gender, and the politics, possibilities, and problematics of media spectatorship—all informed by her experience of living with hypochondroplasia dwarfism.

Sofiya Cheyenne
Sofiya Cheyenne (Producer, Community Liason) wears many hats as a Performing Artist, Teaching Artist and Disability Advocate/Consultant. She has appeared on TV shows such as TrueTV's “At Home With Amy Sedaris”, Netflix's “StartUP” and Amazon's “Loudermilk.”