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The next film
Documentary makers often find their next subject in the gaps of the last one: people who would not appear, stories that were cut, questions a review raised. Others follow a single person further, or return to a place with someone who left it long ago. Delivery riders and couriers are among the most visible workers in Chinese cities and among the least often heard. Filmmakers who want to tell their stories usually start, as here, through someone they already know and trust. Many filmmakers keep a notebook for every project from its first day: names, dates, places, lines people said. A new notebook is often the first thing a new film has.