My Beautiful Stutter

My Beautiful Stutter

10.0

Jul 04 2019

2h 30m

Documentary

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 Their journey to SAY find some close to suicide, others withdrawn and fearful, exhausted and defeated from failed fluency training, societal pressures to not stutter or the decision to remain silent.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

Malcolm Venable

Self

Julianna Padilla

Julianna Padilla

Self

Emily Purkey

Emily Purkey

Self

Sarah Berkowitz

Sarah Berkowitz

Self