Passion, Pioneer study presidential tweets

#Trump: How Social Media Changed the Presidency will be delivered next month

UK SCREENINGS: Swedish pubcaster SVT and Network 10 in Australia have pre-bought a documentary about Donald Trump’s use of social media from Passion Distribution.

UK-based Passion has paired up with Tinopolis stablemate Pioneer Productions to commission and fund #Trump: How Social Media Changed the Presidency, which chronicles the rise to power of the first so-called Twitter president.

Passion announced the pre-sales to SVT, Network 10 and Germany’s NTV ahead of its UK Screenings event this afternoon. The one-hour special is set to be delivered in March.

Ten years since Trump’s first tweet, the film uses archive and a cast of political experts and former members of Trump’s administration, including Anthony Scaramucci, to unpick how, in just 140 characters, Twitter changed the way political communication takes place in the US.

Passion Distribution and Pioneer previously collaborated on documentary series Secrets of the Superfactories (8×60’) and One Hour That Changed The World: Moon Landing (1×60’), and fact ent series Planes Gone Viral (8×60’).