4.6 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2021
⏱️ 29 minutes
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The Netflix documentary “Found” follows three Chinese cousins, adopted as babies by very different American families. Thanks to DNA, the teen girls found each other. Then they travelled to China seeking clues about their past, and got the help of a young Chinese genealogist with her own complicated family history. Director Amanda Lipitz and producer Anita Gou tell us how their emotional film “Found” benefitted from a big helping of kismet from start to finish.
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0:00.0 | From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is The Business. |
0:04.8 | The Netflix documentary Found follows three Chinese cousins who were adopted as babies by very different American families. |
0:12.7 | Thanks to DNA, the teen girls have found each other and now have questions about who they are and where they came from. |
0:19.7 | When the trio headed to China, |
0:21.1 | director Amanda Lippets had the cameras rolling |
0:23.6 | as a young Chinese genealogist |
0:25.6 | with her own complicated history, |
0:27.6 | helped them uncover clues. |
0:29.6 | It's just like one of those moments |
0:30.6 | where the documentary gods just come in and say, |
0:34.6 | you need to tell this story, |
0:36.6 | and these people are faded to meet, and this is |
0:39.9 | much bigger than the making of a film. This is something all of these people really need |
0:43.9 | in their lives. Lipitsen producer Anita Guo tell us how their emotional film found benefited |
0:50.0 | from a big helping of kismet from start to finish. And they explain how they managed to film in |
0:55.0 | China around still very sensitive subject matter before coming back to America just weeks before |
1:00.4 | the world went into pandemic shutdown. But first we banter. Stick around. It's the business from |
1:06.0 | KCRW. I am joined by my associate in banter, Matt Bellany. |
1:15.1 | Hello, Matt. |
1:16.1 | Hi there. |
1:16.9 | So the investigation into the rust shooting, as we have discussed, will take months. |
1:22.9 | But that did not stop the attorneys for the armorer on this film Hannah Gutierrez-Reed from going on |
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