Remarkable and compelling in its honesty, “Lost and Found” is also profoundly courageous filmmaking. In being free to speak their own truths, Debra Baker, her son, mother, sister, and her son’s dying adoptive mother are able to give us all a stronger voice, as we strive to become real to each other. Just as with Debra’s first film “Broken Ties”, “Lost and Found” is a true gift to the world of adoption.

Carol Schaefer, Author, “The Other Mother: A Woman’s Love for the Child She Gave Up for Adoption”
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Debra Baker’s second film “Lost and Found” is a candid look at how relinquishment and adoption affect everyone connected to adoption. The accounts of the adoptee, birth mother, adoptive mother, birth grandmother and aunt, are straightforward and spontaneous. It shows that reunions are valuable, but not a panacea for the loss connected to adoption. A brave and honest film.

Nancy Verrier, MFT, Author, “The Primal Wound” and “Coming Home to Self”
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"Lost and Found" brings to life the simultaneously simple and complicated lessons of adoption (the very same lessons we try to teach our children): that honesty and respect should form the core of our lives. This is a compelling, insightful and inspiring film that I wish everyone -- in and out of the adoption community -- would watch.

Adam Pertman, Executive Director of the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute and author of "Adoption Nation"
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