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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