In celebration of International Stuttering Awareness Day, we will be screening the award-winning independent documentary My Beautiful Stutter. The screening will take place on Saturday, October 14 at 2:00pm.

My Beautiful Stutter follows five kids who stutter, ages 9 to 18, from all over the United States and all walks of life, 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 Their journey to SAY find some close to suicide, others withdrawn and fearful, exhausted and defeated from failed fluency training, societal pressures to not stutter or the decision to remain silent.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.

Executive Producers: Paul Rudd, Mariska Hargitay, Peter Hermann, George Springer, Patrick James Lynch

Producers: Ryan Gielen, Michael Alden

Director: Ryan Gielen 

Writer: Steven Sander

FESTIVALS & AWARDS

WINNER SHORTY SOCIAL GOOD AWARD THE 2020 SHORTY AWARDS 

WINNER BEST DOCUMENTARY 2019 BOSTON INTERNATIONAL KIDS FILM FESTIVAL

WINNER AUDIENCE AWARD BEST FILM, SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS 2019 NAPA VALLEY FILM FESTIVAL

WINNER VIOLA MARSHALL AUDIENCE AWARD BEST DOCUMENTARY 2019 RHODE ISLAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

WINNER BEST DOCUMENTARY 2019 GOLDEN DOOR FILM FESTIVAL

WINNER BEST DOCUMENTARY 2019 DOC SUNBACK FESTIVAL

OFFICIAL SELECTION Napa Valley Film Festival

OFFICIAL SELECTION Heartland International Film Festival

OFFICIAL SELECTION Indy Film Festival

OFFICIAL SELECTION Boston International Kids Film Festival

OFFICIAL SELECTION Rhode Island International Film Festival

OFFICIAL SELECTION Alexandria Film Festival 

OFFICIAL SELECTION Doc Sunback Film Festival

OFFICIAL SELECTION Golden Door Film Festival

"We are all human beings who want to be heard, and that means letting everyone have as much time as they need to speak..." -Taro Alexander, Founder, Stuttering Association for the Young (SAY)

"The pain associated with stuttering is not based on your age, but on how long you go without knowing it's okay to stutter..." -Jake, Camper, Camp SAY

"This is not a speech impediment. My voice is an instrument, my stutter its greatest sympony. My speech, composed by God..." -Emily, Reading from the poem "Honest Speech" by Erin Schick