Twitter film 'Twittamentary' coming to a film festival near you

When Columbia Pictures announced they were making a movie about Facebook last year, it was only a matter of time before a Twitter equivalent followed.

And sure enough, Singaporean filmmaker Tan Siok Siok recently announced that “Twittamentary,” her documentary about the impacts of Twitter on its users’ lives, is set to be screened at film festivals in the United States and Asia in the next few months.

Tan, who started using Twitter in December 2007, initially found the tool the “weirdest application on the planet,” but quickly became fascinated with its social influence.

“I know a lot of people who, to put it mildly, don't get Twitter," said Tan to the South China Morning Post. “It's somehow ineffable. When someone who gets Twitter tries to explain to someone else why it is so great, they always get tied up in knots. I thought the film could capture that sense of something you can't put into words." 

Tan mostly got her material for the film through ‘crowd-sourcing,’ or inviting Twitter users to contribute their own multimedia clips to form the movie.

Twittamentary is a series of vignettes about real people whose lives were transformed by the social networking tool -- be it a homeless mother who tweets from the library, or star tweeter and travel journalist Stefanie Michaels, according to the Post.

Tan also plans to stream "Twittamentary" online in the near future.