My Beautiful Stutter (2019)
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 Their journey to SAY find some close to suicide, others withdrawn and fearful, exhausted and defeated from failed fluency training, societal pressures to not stutter or the decision to remain silent.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.
Director: Ryan Gielen
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Malcolm Venable as Self |
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Julianna Padilla as Self |
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Emily Purkey as Self |
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Sarah Berkowitz as Self |
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Will Davis as Self |
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Taro Alexander as Self |
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Travis Robertson as Self |
| Production | Peter Hermann | Executive Producer |
| Production | Mariska Hargitay | Executive Producer |
| Sound | Tom Deis | Music |
| Camera | Brad Reeb | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Joshua Sterling Bragg | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Steven Sander | Editor |
| Production | Michael Alden | Producer |
| Production | George Springer | Producer |
| Production | Patrick James Lynch | Producer |
| Directing | Ryan Gielen | Director |
| Production | Ryan Gielen | Producer |
| Writing | Steven Sander | Writer |
| Production | Paul Rudd | Producer |