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Why genre expectations limit cross-cultural storytelling

My film combines Bollywood dance sequences with documentary footage about immigration but film festivals keep rejecting it saying the genres do not mix well

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Industry categorization systems prevent innovative narrative approaches that reflect multicultural experience.

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