When Walt Whitman Was a Little Girl

Overview

As the title suggests, this is a speculative biography of the artistic side of Walt Whitman. Starting out as an ordinary nine year old girl, young Walt is soon catapulted into the world with all her senses ablaze. Combining drama, dance, puppetry, and potato cannons, the film is a sometimes funny, sometimes sad rumination on growing up as a 'sensitive kid.'

Directed by Jim Haverkamp

Top cast

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Natalie Braun

Walt Whitman

Don Henderson Baker

Narrator

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Lomarev C. Jones

Mama

C

Carl Martin

Daddy

G

Gina Kohler

Meadow dancer

J

James Morrow

Sailor

D

Dan Partridge

Abe Lincoln

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