My Beautiful Stutter (2019)

  • NR
  • 07/04/2019 (US)
  • Documentary
  • 1h 30m

Overview

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 Their journey to SAY find some close to suicide, others withdrawn and fearful, exhausted and defeated from failed fluency training, societal pressures to not stutter or the decision to remain silent.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.

Ryan Gielen

Director

Steven Sander

Writer

Cast

Malcolm Venable's headshot

Malcolm Venable

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Julianna Padilla's headshot

Julianna Padilla

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Emily Purkey's headshot

Emily Purkey

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Sarah Berkowitz's headshot

Sarah Berkowitz

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Will Davis's headshot

Will Davis

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Taro Alexander's headshot

Taro Alexander

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Travis Robertson's headshot

Travis Robertson

Self

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