Samantha Futerman, who turned the unusual story of her adoption from South Korea into a movie and a book has been notified that “Twinsters” will have its premiere at SXSW.
“Thank you all so much for being a part of this journey,” Futerman and her sister Anais Bordier wrote to their Kickstarter supporters. “We can’t even begin to tell you how your continued support means to us. This is the first step in gaining worldwide distribution for our film. So hopefully you’ll be able to see it soon in a theatre near you. :) :) :)”
Futerman, an actress who co-directed the movie, will be one of only five female directors to have films at the festival. Ava DuVernay, the director of “Selma”, will be one of the keynote speakers at SXSW. Of the 125 movies to be shown at SXSW, 24 were financed through the crowdfunding platform like “Twinsters”.
MyVeronaNJ.com broke the story of Futerman’s adoption almost two years ago. In February 2013, she was contacted through Facebook by Bordier, a French national who had discovered that they shared a birth date and had both been adopted from South Korea. The girls met in London, where Bordier works, and with the help of two Kickstarter campaigns, created a documentary about how they came to be adopted into two different families. Futerman grew up in Verona as the daughter of Judd and Jackie Futerman and graduates of Pleasant Day nursery school will spot “Miss Jackie” in the movie’s trailer:
