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Everything I Need to Know I Learned from the Letter People (2025)

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155 min |Documentary, Animation, Family

As a way to engage severely struggling students in a New York classroom in the 1960s, The Letter People - child-size characters believed to be living, breathing creatures - helped kids across America learn to read for generations.

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Director

Jason Paul Collum

Writer

Jason Paul Collum

Producer

Jason Paul Collum (producer)

Composer

David Fesliyan

Cinematographer

Andrew Gibbs

Editor

Dennis Petersen (lead editor)

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Aug 18, 2025 (United States)

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Elayne Reiss-Weimann primary photo Elayne Reiss-Weimann Self Self See fewer Everything I Need to Know I Learned from the Letter People (2025)
Bernard Kauderer primary photo Bernard Kauderer Self Self See fewer Everything I Need to Know I Learned from the Letter People (2025)
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Jacqueline S. Adams primary photo Jacqueline S. Adams Self Self See fewer Everything I Need to Know I Learned from the Letter People (2025)
Jason Paul Collum primary photo Jason Paul Collum Narrator Narrator See fewer 5 Dark Souls (1996)
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Alan Friedman primary photo Alan Friedman Self Self See fewer Everything I Need to Know I Learned from the Letter People (2025)
Lynell Johnson primary photo Lynell Johnson Self Self See fewer Everything I Need to Know I Learned from the Letter People (2025)
Jack Brenner primary photo Jack Brenner Self Self See fewer Everything I Need to Know I Learned from the Letter People (2025)
Ron Chase primary photo Ron Chase Self Self See fewer Everything I Need to Know I Learned from the Letter People (2025)
Cathy Zier primary photo Cathy Zier Self Self See fewer Everything I Need to Know I Learned from the Letter People (2025)
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Jeanne Piper primary photo Jeanne Piper Self Self See fewer Everything I Need to Know I Learned from the Letter People (2025)
Kim Blake primary photo Kim Blake Self Self See fewer Everything I Need to Know I Learned from the Letter People (2025)
Gayle Letsch primary photo Gayle Letsch Self Self See fewer Everything I Need to Know I Learned from the Letter People (2025)
Katie Majors primary photo Katie Majors Self Self See fewer Everything I Need to Know I Learned from the Letter People (2025)
Jen Hornyak primary photo Jen Hornyak Self Self See fewer Everything I Need to Know I Learned from the Letter People (2025)
David T. Janasiak primary photo David T. Janasiak Self Self See fewer Everything I Need to Know I Learned from the Letter People (2025)
Suzanne LeTendre-Janasiak primary photo Suzanne LeTendre-Janasiak Self Self See fewer Everything I Need to Know I Learned from the Letter People (2025)
Jennifer Lynn Goebel primary photo Jennifer Lynn GoebelSelf (as "Jennifer Lynn Neely") Self (as "Jennifer Lynn Neely") See fewer October Moon (2005)
Julie Redmon primary photo Julie Redmon Self Self See fewer Everything I Need to Know I Learned from the Letter People (2025)
Anthony Rogan primary photo Anthony Rogan Self Self See fewer Everything I Need to Know I Learned from the Letter People (2025)
Victoria Vollman primary photo Victoria Vollman Self Self See fewer Everything I Need to Know I Learned from the Letter People (2025)
Kate Aaron Yoder primary photo Kate Aaron Yoder Self Self See fewer Everything I Need to Know I Learned from the Letter People (2025)
Mike Coates primary photo Mike Coates Self Self See fewer Everything I Need to Know I Learned from the Letter People (2025)
Matthew Wade Shapiro primary photo Matthew Wade Shapiro Self Self See fewer Everything I Need to Know I Learned from the Letter People (2025)
Erin Johnson primary photo Erin Johnson Self Self See fewer Everything I Need to Know I Learned from the Letter People (2025)
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Carol Murdock primary photo Carol Murdock Self Self See fewer Everything I Need to Know I Learned from the Letter People (2025)
Tanya Blumenshine primary photo Tanya Blumenshine Educator Educator See fewer Everything I Need to Know I Learned from the Letter People (2025)
Daniel Damana primary photo Daniel Damana Student Student See fewer Everything I Need to Know I Learned from the Letter People (2025)

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