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If Criterion24/7 hasn’t completely colonized your attention every time you open the Channel––this is to say: if you’re stronger than me––their May lineup may be of interest. First and foremost I’m happy to see a Michael Roemer triple-feature: his superlative Nothing But a Man, arriving in a Criterion Edition, and the recently rediscovered The Plot Against Harry and Vengeance is Mine, three distinct features that suggest a long-lost voice of American movies. Meanwhile, Nobuhiko Obayashi’s Antiwar Trilogy four by Sara Driver, and a wide collection from Ayoka Chenzira fill out the auteurist sets.

Series-wise, a highlight of 1999 goes beyond the well-established canon with films like Trick and Bye Bye Africa, while of course including Sofia Coppola, Michael Mann, Scorsese, and Claire Denis. Films starring Shirley Maclaine, a study of 1960s paranoia, and Columbia’s “golden era” (read: 1950-1961) are curated; meanwhile, The Breaking Ice,...

Identical twin sisters Samantha Futerman and Anais Bordier lived the first 27 years of their lives with no idea the other existed - until December 2012, when Bordier watched a YouTube video and felt as if she was staring back at herself. Bordier found her lookalike's name in the film's credits, and soon learned that the young woman, Samantha Futerman, was also born in Busan, South Korea, on Nov. 19, 1987 - and that she, too, was adopted. "I was shocked," Bordier told People of her discovery. She decided to reach out to the woman via Facebook message, complete with a The Parent Trap...

Identical twin sisters Samantha Futerman and Anais Bordier lived the first 27 years of their lives with no idea the other existed - until December 2012, when Bordier watched a YouTube video and felt as if she was staring back at herself. Bordier found her lookalike's name in the film's credits, and soon learned that the young woman, Samantha Futerman, was also born in Busan, South Korea, on Nov. 19, 1987 - and that she, too, was adopted. "I was shocked," Bordier told People of her discovery. She decided to reach out to the woman via Facebook message, complete with a The Parent Trap...

Identical twins. Separated at birth. 25 years without knowing each other’s existence. Serendipitous meeting through social media. True story or a movie? Well, both in this case.

Twinsters is a documentary based on an incredible true story of Samantha Futerman and Anais Bordier. It opens in Korea on 3rd March after the Us theatrical release in 2015.

The sisters were adopted to two different countries soon after their birth in Busan, Korea. Neither of their adoption papers had a trace of an existence of a twin.

Then there was the fateful Youtube clip.

Anais’ friend couldn’t help but notice an uncanny resemblance an actress on this clip had with his friend, Samantha. It was too much of a resemblance for Anais to simply turn away when “light Google stalking” revealed they were born on the same day.

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She reached out to the doppelganger through Facebook. Award-winning documentary (Jury Prize...

What would you do if, one random day, you find out that you might be a twin, separated at birth from your sibling? This is exactly what happened to Samantha Futerman, an actress living in the United States (her credits include “Memoirs of a Geisha,” “21 & Over,” and more recently, “The Kroll Show”), who faced this bizarre, movie-like scenario when she got friend requested on Facebook by Anaïs Bordier. Seeing the potential in documenting the experience, Samantha and her friend Ryan Miyamoto co-directed “Twinsters,” which tells the heart-warming story of how Sam and Anaïs connected from different continents and after decades of never knowing the other existed. Sure, it’s hard not to notice that the documentary spins its wheels at times, but there’s something incredibly touching about the warmth and comfort of family and acceptance. Sam and Anaïs were born on November 19th, 1987, in Busan, South Korea. Each had...

The La Asian Pacific Film Festival has reached its 31st year (!) of bringing films from the Api community to Southern California. This year's lineup continues that tradition with a diverse array of films from all around the Pacific Rim. The fest kicks off April 23 with opening nighter Everything Before Us from directors Wesley Chan, Ted Fu and Philip Wang. The centerpiece films are Samantha Futerman and Ryan Miyamoto's separated twins documentary Twinsters and Daniel Park's La-set drama Ktown Cowboys. The fest closes up shop on April 30 with Shonali Bose's Indian-American drama Margarita With A Straw (pictured). "Our International Showcase is one of the strongest ever," states Festival Co-Director Anderson Le. "We have some amazing films from all over Asia including award winning...

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The festival is set to run from April 23-30 and will present 134 films from more than 20 countries.

The world premiere of Wong Fu Productions’ Everything Before Us kicks off the festival while Shonali Bose’s Margarita With A Straw (pictured) closes the event.

The West Coast premieres of Daniel Park’s Ktown Cowboys and Samantha Futerman and Ryan Miyamoto’s Twinsters are centrepiece screenings.

Click here for the full programme.

Jenna Ushkowitz, best known for playing Tina Cohan Chang on Glee, executive produced the new documentary Twinsters which follows two twin adoptees who find one another in adulthood. Jenna Ushkowitz On ‘Twinsters’ Twinsters shows the true life reunion of twins Samantha Futerman and Anais Bordier, who were separated at birth and found each other on the Internet. Ushkowitz, […]

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What would you do if, one random day, you find out that you might be a twin, separated at birth from your sibling? This is exactly what happened to Samantha Futerman, an actress living in the United States (her credits include “Memoirs of a Geisha,” “21 & Over,” and more recently, “The Kroll Show”), who faced this bizarre, movie-like, scenario when she got friend requested on Facebook by Anaïs Bordier. Seeing the potential in documenting the experience, Samantha and her friend Ryan Miyamoto co-directed “Twinsters,” which tells the heart-warming story of how Sam and Anaïs connected from different continents and after decades of never knowing the other existed. Sure, it’s hard not to notice that the documentary spins its wheels at times, but there’s something incredibly touching about the warmth and comfort of family and acceptance. Sam and Anaïs were born on November 19th, 1987, in Busan, South Korea. Each had...

The winners of this year’s jury and special awards were revealed tonight [March 17] at the ceremony hosted by Vanessa Bayer.

SXSW has announced the winners of this year’s Jury and Special Awards.

Trey Edward Shults’ Krisha, expanded from his award-winning short of the same name, was named the Grand Jury winner of the Narrative Feature Competition, with Special Jury Recognition for Visual Excellence going to Creative Control director Benjamin Dickinson.

Grand Jury winner of the Documentary Feature Competition went to Scott Christopherson & Brad Barber’s Peace Officer, with Special Jury Recognition for Directing going to A Woman Like Me directors Alex Sichel and Elizabeth Giamatti.

Twinsters directors Samantha Futerman and Ryan Miyamoto were awarded Special Jury Recognition for Editing.

Kyle Buchanan, Wesley Morris and Krista Smith made up the Narrative Feature Competition jury, while the Documentary Feature Competition jury consisted of Tabitha Jackson, Jason Spingarn-Koff and Alison Willmore.

Short Film Jury Awards went to the likes...

Though SXSW will carry on screening films through Saturday, the awards were presented tonight. Trey Edward Shults's Krisha wins the Narrative Feature Grand Jury Award, while Scott Christopherson and Brad Barber's Peace Officer takes the Documentary Feature Grand Jury Award. Among the other winners: Benjamin Dickinson's Creative Control, editor Jeff Consiglio for Samantha Futerman and Ryan Miyamoto's Twinsters, Alex Sichel and Elizabeth Giamatti for A Woman Like Me, Yvonne Kerékgyártó's Free Entry and Bill Ross and Turner Ross for Western. » - David Hudson...

Though SXSW will carry on screening films through Saturday, the awards were presented tonight. Trey Edward Shults's Krisha wins the Narrative Feature Grand Jury Award, while Scott Christopherson and Brad Barber's Peace Officer takes the Documentary Feature Grand Jury Award. Among the other winners: Benjamin Dickinson's Creative Control, editor Jeff Consiglio for Samantha Futerman and Ryan Miyamoto's Twinsters, Alex Sichel and Elizabeth Giamatti for A Woman Like Me, Yvonne Kerékgyártó's Free Entry and Bill Ross and Turner Ross for Western. » - David Hudson...

Though SXSW will carry on screening films through Saturday, the awards were presented tonight. Trey Edward Shults's Krisha wins the Narrative Feature Grand Jury Award, while Scott Christopherson and Brad Barber's Peace Officer takes the Documentary Feature Grand Jury Award. Among the other winners: Benjamin Dickinson's Creative Control, editor Jeff Consiglio for Samantha Futerman and Ryan Miyamoto's Twinsters, Alex Sichel and Elizabeth Giamatti for A Woman Like Me, Yvonne Kerékgyártó's Free Entry and Bill Ross and Turner Ross for Western. » - David Hudson...

Though SXSW will carry on screening films through Saturday, the awards were presented tonight. Trey Edward Shults's Krisha wins the Narrative Feature Grand Jury Award, while Scott Christopherson and Brad Barber's Peace Officer takes the Documentary Feature Grand Jury Award. Among the other winners: Benjamin Dickinson's Creative Control, editor Jeff Consiglio for Samantha Futerman and Ryan Miyamoto's Twinsters, Alex Sichel and Elizabeth Giamatti for A Woman Like Me, Yvonne Kerékgyártó's Free Entry and Bill Ross and Turner Ross for Western. » - David Hudson...

In February 2013, Anaïs Bordier, a French fashion student living in London, stumbled upon a YouTube video featuring Samantha Futerman, an actress in Los Angeles, and was struck by their uncanny resemblance. After discovering they were born on the same day in Busan, Korea and both put up for adoption, Anaïs reached out to Samantha via Facebook. In Twinsters, we follow Samantha and Anaïs’ journey into sisterhood, witnessing everything from their first meeting, to their first trip back to Korea where their separation took place. Twinsters explores the meaning of family and connection through a story that would have been impossible just 10 years ago without the creation of YouTube and Facebook. [Synopsis courtesy SXSW.] What's your film about in 140 characters or less? Imagine there was someone out there you'd never met who looked exactly like you and was born on your birthday. "Twinsters" is the story of Samantha Futerman and Anaïs Bordier, two...

Actress Jenna Ushkowitz can add party planner — and, more importantly, philanthropist — to her resume. One of the founding cast members of Fox’s “Glee,” Ushkowitz is fronting an important cause ahead of the Mar. 20 finale of her show, which costars Lea Michele, Mark Salling, Chris Colfer and Dianna Agron. “Kindred: The Adoption Foundation” was launched by Ushkowitz and friend Samantha Futerman, both Korean-American adoptees who grew up auditioning alongside one another. Also Read: ‘Glee’ Star Darren Criss Returns to Broadway in ‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch’ The organization was founded while Ushkowitz and Futerman were working on the documentary “Twinsters,...

Now that the busy winter fest schedule of Sundance, Rotterdam and the Berlinale has concluded, we’ve now got our eyes on the likes of True/False and SXSW. While, True/False does not specialize in attention grabbing world premieres, it does provide a late winter haven for cream of the crop non-fiction fare from all the previously mentioned fests and a selection of overlooked genre blending films presented in a down home setting. This year will mark my first trip to the Columbia, Missouri based fest, where I hope to catch a little of everything, from their hush-hush secret screenings, to selections from their Neither/Nor series, this year featuring chimeric Polish cinema of decades past, to a spotlight of Adam Curtis’s incisive oeuvre. But truth be told, it is SXSW, with its slew of high profile world premieres being announced, such as Alex Gibney’s Steve Jobs...

Heading toward its world premiere at SXSW next month, Twinsters tells the story of twins who were separated shortly after birth and adopted by different families. We are pleased to present the exclusive debut of the festival poster for the film. Co-directed by Samantha Futerman and Ryan Miyamoto, the documentary examines the Korean youngsters, Samantha Futerman and Anaïs Bordier. According to the official synopsis, they "were each put up for adoption at separate agencies. Samantha was adopted by a family in New Jersey and Anaïs to a family in Paris, France. Neither knew the other existed until one day Anaïs came across a YouTube video that Samantha was in [which you can watch below]. "The film follows Sam and Anaïs from this discovery and their...

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Hot projects on Screenbase this week include German-Canadian co-production In The Lost Lands, twin brothers Mohammed Abou Nasser and Ahmad Abou Nasser’s Dégradé, spy-thriller Damascus Cover and documentary Tomorrow.

Fantasy adventure In The Lost Lands

Milla Jovovich will star alongside Justin Chatwin in this new feature based on short stories from the creator of Game Of Thrones. The German-Canadian co-production is directed by Constantin Werner.

The story revolves around a series of magical and fantastic tales centring on a sorceress in search of a spell, a warrior girl on a quest and a young barbarian who encounters a witch in a spacecraft.

Steve Hoban, Oliver Luer and Nico Bruinsma produce. Myriad Pictures chief Kirk D’Amico will serve as an executive producer.

Terrence Malick’s Voyage Of Time

Malick’s documentary features the voices of Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett. Dede Gardner, Nicolas Gonda, Sarah Green, Grant Hill, Brad Pitt, Bill Pohlad and [link...

Amy Schumer and Bill Hader in TrainwreckPhoto: Universal Pictures With Sundance just wrapping up and Berlin starting up in a few days, we are now immersed in the year-long barrage of film festivals. One such festival in South By Southwest. A few weeks back they announced the first seven films of their program, including the opening night film Brand: A Second Coming. Today, they have revealed the rest of the features to be shown in March (except for the midnight program), and some of it has me very excited. The bigger titles announced do not do much for me. Paul Feig's Spy, starring Melissa McCarthy, and the Will Ferrell/Kevin Hart starrer Get Hard leave a lot to be desired in terms of anticipation, as does a work in progress cut of Judd Apatow's latest film Trainwreck. I'm guessing an Apatow work in progress is probably around three and a half hours.

South by Southwest, the multi-faceted film, music and technology festival held annually in Austin, TX will feature such upcoming films as Paul Feig’s Spy, David Gordon Green’s Manglehorn, Alex Gibney’s documentary Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine, and Ondi Timoner’s Russell Brand profile Brand: A Second Coming as headliners in this year’s film festival lineup.

SXSW runs from March 13 to 21 in Austin and is now in its 22nd year. Variety has details of the 145 films and 100 world premieres bowing at this year’s festival. Brand, as previously reported, will be the festival’s opening night film.

Other notable titles on the list are the Will Ferrell/Kevin Hart comedy Get Hard, a rough cut of Judd Apatow’s Trainwreck, the directorial debut of 28 Days Later screenwriter Alex Garland, Ex Machina, and a new comedy by Michael Showalter, Hello, My Name is Doris.

On the small screen,...

Top brass at the 22nd South By Southwest (SXSW) Film Conference and Festival have announced the feature line-up for the upcoming festival, set to run from March 13-21 in Austin, Texas.

SXSW will showcase 145 features. The line-up includes 60 films from first-time film-makers and comprises 100 world premieres, 13 North American premieres and 11 Us premieres.

Head of film Janet Pierson and her team of programmers culled selections from a record 2,385 feature-length submissions composed of 1,614 Us and 771 international features. The record of 7,335 total submissions marks a 13% gain on 2014.

For the first time the number of films in the juried Narrative Feature and Documentary Feature selections have risen from eight to ten. The complete Conference line-up and schedule will be released on February 17.

Besides the Narrative Feature Competition and Documentary Feature Competition selections listed below, feature entries include Judd Apatow’s work-in-progress comedy Trainwreck starring Amy Schumer in Special Events, music film 808 (pictured) in 24 Beats Per Second and Alex Garland’s sci-fi...

Stars: Miles Teller, Justin Chon, Sarah Wright, Skylar Astin, Jonathan Keltz, François Chau, Russell Hodgkinson, Daniel Booko, Dustin Ybarra, Samantha Futerman | Written and Directed by Jon Lucas, Scott Moore

I write this review in a haze of disorientation, not, I hasten to add, due to a lingering intoxication effect from seeing this film, but due to riding high on adrenaline after a close brush with disaster. You’ll forgive me, I hope, if the next seven hundred words or so appear incomprehensible, meandering or just plain silly. This introduction is by no means excluded. The disaster in question? I had found myself without proper boarding passes for a flight I’m due to be on in the next sixteen hours and thought myself without access to a printer. Thank all that claims to be holy for the mercifully continued existence of the humble internet café. Specifically, thank you to Yusuf Internet Café,...

Chicago – In the latest HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film with our unique social giveaway technology, we have 25 pairs of movie passes up for grabs to the advance screening of “21 and Over” from the writers of “The Hangover”!

“21 and Over,” which opens on March 1, 2013 and is rated “R,” stars Miles Teller, Skylar Astin, Justin Chon, Jonathan Keltz, Sarah Wright, François Chau, Russell Hodgkinson, Daniel Booko, Russell Mercado, Josie Loren, Christiann Castellanos, Dustin Ybarra and Samantha Futerman from writers and directors Jon Lucas and Scott Moore.

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Check out the first image from Jon Lucas and Scott Moore's 21 and Over, starring Skylar Astin, Miles Teller and Justin Wong! The comedy showcases a rite of passage gone horribly wrong. Straight-a college student Jeff Chang has always done what’s expected of him. But when his two best friends Casey and Miller surprise him with a visit for his 21st birthday, he decides to do the unexpected for a change, even though his critical medical school interview is early the next morning. What was supposed to be one beer becomes one night of chaos, over indulgence and utter debauchery in this outrageous comedy. Relativity Media's sent along this new image for the film which debuts in theaters from March 1st, 2013. Pic is helmed as well as written by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, and also includes Daniel Booko, Jonathan Keltz, François Chau, Samantha Futerman and Dustin Ybarra.

Check out the first image from Jon Lucas and Scott Moore's 21 and Over, starring Skylar Astin, Miles Teller and Justin Chon! The comedy showcases a rite of passage gone horribly wrong. Straight-a college student Jeff Chang has always done what’s expected of him. But when his two best friends Casey and Miller surprise him with a visit for his 21st birthday, he decides to do the unexpected for a change, even though his critical medical school interview is early the next morning. What was supposed to be one beer becomes one night of chaos, over indulgence and utter debauchery in this outrageous comedy. Relativity Media's sent along this new image for the film which debuts in theaters from March 1st, 2013. Pic is helmed as well as written by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, and also includes Daniel Booko, Jonathan Keltz, François Chau, Samantha Futerman and Dustin Ybarra.

Exclusive: Cara Buono, Ally Sheedy and Samantha Futerman are set to co-star opposite Eric Stoltz in Lifetime’s dramedy pilot Modern Love, from Sony Pictures TV. Created and executive produced by Sex and the City alumna Jenny Bicks, the project weaves actual stories from New York Times columns to explore the state of modern relationships. It follows newspaper science editor Simon McElvane (Stoltz) as he faces a deteriorating marriage, the ramifications of potentially starting over and balancing his relationship with his adopted 15-year-old daughter (Futerman). Unexpectedly handed the job of editor of the newspaper’s Modern Love column, Simon discovers he has a lot to learn about life and love. Buono will play the ambitious Styles Editor at Simon’s paper who is torn between her career and her family. Sheedy will play the paper’s ballsy and no-nonsense Assistant Managing Editor. Also cast in the pilot are Alice Ripley...