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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

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

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