Directed by Jan Krawitz
Screenings: 3/7/04 7:00 pm at San Jose Rep, 3/9/04 7:15pm at SJSU Morris Dailey Auditorium

In 1981, Jan Krawitz made a documentary called “Little People” which has run on PBS and the Discovery Channel (among others). A few years ago, she contacted one of the subjects of that documentary to ask about letting some of the footage of him run on another program, and got the idea to follow up on the other people she interviewed back in 1981.
The result, “Big Enough,” mixes unused footage from the first film with new footage to show how the children and teenagers she talked to in 1981 have matured and changed. It covers all sorts of topics: what the dating scene is like for little people, the issues around having children (there’s a 75% chance of passing the dwarfism gene on to offspring), and what the future may hold now that the gene for dwarfism can be spotted while a child is still in the womb.
This is an uplifting portrait of a subgroup of American society and one that folks of any size should see.