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Scenario

Why feedback to make personal stories more universal can feel like cultural erasure

My film about my immigrant parents keeps getting notes that it needs to be more universal and I feel like they want me to erase what makes it true

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The demand for broad appeal often requires the sacrifice of specific truth that gives work its power.

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