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When creative partners have unequal relationships to their subject matter

My co-director and I have been making documentaries together for five years but this current project is about something I lived through and she didn't, and we can't figure out how to balance my insider perspective with her outsider clarity. Every editorial choice feels loaded.

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Proximity and distance both distort vision, but in opposite directions.

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