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His great aunt, who sat next to him, piped up that his parents had abandoned him and there was nobody to care for him.

The incidents prompted a week-long discussion about when piping up can be fun, and how it can quickly get out of hand.

His own producers agreed to fund a movie that feels very much his own, which is wonderful even given a few fumbles that could have used an outside voice piping up.

“When we fled, our young brothers were killed,” piped up a self-assured 14-year-old Sudanese girl in a rose pink headscarf, who spoke calmly and quietly about terrifying times.

Ahead of her set, comedian Laurie Kilmartin said she was “mostly just doing a regular show,” but not reacting the way she might otherwise if someone piped up in the crowd.