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E2AC’s recent award-winning production: My Beautiful Stutter.
My Beautiful Stutter follows five kids who stutter, ages 9 to 18, from all over the United States and all walks of life. After experiencing a lifetime of bullying and stigmatization, they 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Their journey to SAY find some close to suicide, others withdrawn and fearful, exhausted and defeated from failed fluency training, societal pressures to not stutter or the decision to remain silent.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
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 Rhode Island International 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, the Stuttering Association for the Young (SAY)