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My Beautiful Stutter

My Beautiful Stutter

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jul 4, 2019

Runtime

1h 30m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

100%

Original Title

My Beautiful Stutter

Production Companies

Michael Alden Productions, Passion River Films

Director

Ryan Gielen

Description

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 Their journey to SAY find some close to suicide, others withdrawn and fearful, exhausted and defeated from failed fluency training, societal pressures to not stutter or the decision to remain silent.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