

She accepts the friend request, and receives a message from Bordier hinting strongly that they may be twins and asking her for more details of her birthplace. It introduces her family and explains that she received a friend request on Facebook from a stranger, and when she looks at the account's profile picture she sees her own face looking back at her.

The film opens with Futerman explaining to the audience that she wants to share the crazy story that happened to her a few days previously. She is also shocked to find that they have the same date of birth, so she reaches out to her potential twin via Facebook. After some research, she finds that her doppelgänger is actress Samantha Futerman, who like her was born in South Korea and adopted as a baby.

Some weeks later, she receives the trailer of the film 21 & Over, which features the same woman. She is amazed by the physical similarity of the American woman in the video to herself, but fails to find more information. She is sitting on a London bus when a friend sends her a still picture from a YouTube video. Background Īnaïs Bordier is a French student studying in the UK. In September 2016, the network ABC bought a comedy based on the Twinsters documentary from the creators responsible for Funny or Die. After that, the film was made available through various streaming platforms, including Netflix, iTunes and Freeform. The film was released as a biography genre documentary on March 15, 2015, at South by Southwest. Twinsters is a 2015 documentary film which covers the true-life story of identical twin sisters, separated at birth, discovering each other on-line, meeting, confirming their identity with a DNA test, and exploring aspects of their background together.
