Kate Blewett grew up in Hong Kong, Malaysia and Thailand and enjoyed a prosperous family life.
Blewett has filmed in Australia, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Macau, Malaysia, Micronesia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Taiwan.
She has filmed a wide variety of subjects: art and education, businesses, crimes, cultures, corruption and death, the people, the politics, the religions, the stock exchanges, flotations, violence and wildlife.
She found evidence that very young children were deliberately neglected and allowed to die in agonizing ways and became so distressed that she wanted to leave China, but she nevertheless continued the investigation.
She is trustee of Care of China's Orphaned and Abandoned, a charitable organization which was established after the documentary was screened.