05/06/2025
Celebrate National Stuttering Awareness Week with Docs: Speech Diversity at the San Rafael Film Center.
Marin County, CA — CA Film is partnering with Proud Stutter to shed light on stuttering at an event on May 8, 2025 in San Rafael, CA. The event presents an evening of documentary film, radical self-acceptance, and deep listening through the lens of the stuttering community. The program features a collection of short and feature-length documentaries that center the lived experiences of people who stutter—reclaiming stuttering as a powerful part of identity.. Last year, California became the first state in the nation to declare May 8-13 for those who stutter. More than 70 million people worldwide, and an estimated 2,500 residents in Marin County, are people who stutter. President Joe Biden’s story about growing up with a stutter has helped shed an important light on the speech disability. The event will feature a character reel from Proud Stutter’s documentary film project on the intersecting stories of two black men who stutter, both impacted by the criminal legal system.
WHO:
Michael Turner, filmmaker, The Way We Talk
Maya Chupkov, filmmaker and Proud Stutter founder
Moderated by Nina G., comedian and disability advocate
WHEN:
Thursday, May 8, 2025
7pm
WHERE:
California Film Institute – Rafael Film Center
1118 Fourth St, San Rafael, CA 94901
Link to register: https://rafaelfilm.cafilm.org/speech-diversity/
