When Walt Whitman Was a Little Girl (2012)

Director: Jim Haverkamp

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.'

Cast

Natalie Braun

Walt Whitman

Don Henderson Baker

Narrator

Lomarev C. Jones

Mama

Carl Martin

Daddy

Gina Kohler

Meadow dancer

James Morrow

Sailor

Dan Partridge

Abe Lincoln