
Steven Sander: Taking the Time to Listen
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My next guest is the Emmy award winning editor Steven Sander, a gifted story teller whose projects elevate empower and inspire. In our conversation we explore the importance of listening and paying attention to the world around us.
"If you're not paying attention to things, I don't think you're really contributing."
His most recent project "My Beautiful Stutter" is an important film that captures the transformation of a group of young stutterers who after enduring a lifetime of shame and fear learn that for the first time that it's okay to stutter.
“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)
Steven Sander is an Emmy Award-winning editor (2016 Outstanding Long Sports Documentary) who has been cutting feature drama and documentary projects since 2008. His films have screened theatrically, on major television networks (NBC, ESPN, BBC and Channel 4) and at film festivals around the world. His debut feature as an editor, New Town Killers, received three BAFTA Scotland Nominations (Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor) after premiering at the BFI London Film Festival. His most recent feature documentary, My Beautiful Stutter, has won several festival awards and premiers in 2021 as a Discovery+ Original. Steven also directs, and has won awards for his commercials and short documentaries. He currently combines his work as an editor with commercials directing.
www.twoswimmers.co.uk
https://www.mybeautifulstutter.com/
https://www.say.org/
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