My Beautiful Stutter

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 Their journey to SAY find some close to suicide, others withdrawn and fearful, exhausted and defeated from failed fluency training, societal pressures to not stutter or the decision to remain silent.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

Details

Status

Released

Release date

July 4, 2019

Original language

English

Production

Michael Alden Productions,Passion River Films

Cast

Taro Alexander,Travis Robertson,Sarah Berkowitz,Julianna Padilla,Emily Purkey,Malcolm Venable,Will Davis

Director

Ryan Gielen

Writer

Steven Sander

Producer

Peter Hermann,George Springer,Mariska Hargitay,Ryan Gielen,Patrick James Lynch,Paul Rudd,Michael Alden

Cinematography

Joshua Sterling Bragg,Brad Reeb

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

Homepage

Official site

IMDb

tt6146634