Identical twins separated at birth reunite in via social media

LOS ANGELES -- A new documentary shines a light on the power of social media. In "Twinsters", we meet two women who were once strangers but, thanks to YouTube and Facebook, discovered each other's existence and realized they were, in fact, identical twins.

Anais Bordier was intrigued after she stumbled across a photo of her lookalike, Samantha Futerman on the Internet. After a little digging, things really got interesting.

"She was born the exact same day, the exact same month and the exact same year," Bordier said. "So that's when I decided to send her a Facebook message because that was all too weird!"

"I thought she was a crazy person at first and then when I clicked into her profile and saw that she had a history of pictures and was a real person," Futerman said. It was really wild, and I thought she was immediately really cool."

The young women became fast friends, and together discovered their history. After being born in South Korea, Futerman was adopted by an American family; Bordier's parents are French. They've documented their journey of discovery in the movie "Twinsters."

"We kinda filmed the whole process so you'll see in almost real time our entire journey," said Futerman, who is an aspiring actress and filmmaker. "From our reunion, our DNA test, us going back to Korea together for the first time to attend a really, really, big conference, and all the ins-and-outs of our relationship and how we grew together."

The twins' focus is their future. They say they have no desire to learn the "whys" of being put up for adoption.

"I feel like it doesn't matter anymore. We can't change it, you know?" Futerman said. "So we can't really look back on whatever happened and be sad about it. There's so much to be grateful for in this life. We're sitting here together in the same room today. How could we ever be mad about that?"

"Twinsters" is now showing at the ArcLight Hollywood.