My Beautiful Stutter
90 mins
Follows five kids who stutter, ages 9 to 18, from all over the United States, who after experiencing a lifetime of bullying and stigmatization, meet other children who stutter at an interactive arts-based program, The Stuttering Association for the Young, based in New York City. Their journey to SAY find some close to suicide, others withdrawn and fearful, exhausted and defeated from failed fluency training, societal pressures to not stutter or the decision to remain silent. Over the course of a year we witness first hand the incredible transformation that happens when these young people of wildly different backgrounds experience for the first time the revolutionary idea at the heart of SAY: that it's okay to stutter.
Malcolm Venable
Self
Julianna Padilla
Self
Emily Purkey
Self
Sarah Berkowitz
Self
Will Davis
Self
Taro Alexander
Self
Travis Robertson
Self
Tom Deis
Music
Brad Reeb
Director of Photography
Joshua Sterling Bragg
Director of Photography
Steven Sander
Editor
Michael Alden
Producer
George Springer
Producer
Ryan Gielen
Director
Ryan Gielen
Producer
Steven Sander
Writer