BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) -- Writers are told the best approach to creating a work is to write what you know. Actors are told that the best performance comes when a person is not afraid to expose themselves.

Devin Sidell faced both suggestions with her film “Love, Danielle.” The writer and actor is BRCA1-positive in real life and, in November 2016, underwent a preventative oophorectomy and hysterectomy while her sister was receiving chemotherapy for triple-negative breast cancer. In 2017, Sidell chose to undergo a preventative double mastectomy.

As she was waking up from her double mastectomy it struck Sidell that while plenty of TV shows and movies deal with cancer, none have focused on the BRCA mutation. She sat down with her co-writer, Steven Sears, in 2018 and began writing the scri

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