Samantha Buck and Marie Schlingmann

Samantha Buck and Marie Schlingmann are film writers and directors who have made five films together. Buck is also an actress and has directed the documentary Best Kept Secret solo. They are best known for the 2019 film Sister Aimee.

Samantha Buck
Samantha Buck receiving the Peabody for Best Kept Secret
Born
Samantha Susan Buck

(1974-12-20) December 20, 1974
Dallas, Texas, U.S.
Occupation(s)Director, actress, screenwriter
Years active1997–present
SpouseMarie Schlingmann
Marie Schlingmann
Born
Berlin, Germany
Occupation(s)Director, screenwriter
SpouseSamantha Buck

Personal life and education

Buck and Schlingmann are married,[1] having met at Columbia University.[2] Both have a Master of Fine Arts in film from Columbia, and it is in this program that they created their first short films together.[3] The pair have won various grants for female directors. Schlingmann is from Berlin,[4] and though she is German, she writes screenplays in English, saying that her "creative brain" is in this language.[2]

Career

In her acting career, Buck played Det. G. Lynn Bishop in Law & Order: Criminal Intent[5] and Amy on the comedy series Stella.[5]: 1018  She became interested in film production when starring on Big Apple; the showrunner made the cast take writing workshops and encouraged her talents. She explained that it took her several years after this to follow through, because at the time there were very few actresses who had made the transition to behind the camera. She did not begin with writing, but took up documentary in the cinéma vérité style where she was "basically writing in the edit room with 100 hours of footage".[2] In 2013 she directed the Gotham Award-nominated and Peabody Award-winning documentary film Best Kept Secret.[3][6] During the production of Best Kept Secret, Buck applied and was accepted to Columbia's film program.[2]

The couple first made films together at Columbia University, directing two award-winning short films: Canary and The Mink Catcher. The latter of these was shown at both Telluride Film Festival and South by Southwest.[3] Their first feature film as a duo was slated to be an adaptation of the young adult novel Need in 2016, as a thriller financed by Covert Media.[3] This year they also began development of the feature film The Big D,[7] something which they were still developing in 2019.[8] Both The Mink Catcher and The Big D are set in Dallas, Texas.[9] Their breakthrough feature came a few years later in 2019's Sister Aimee, which is loosely based on the story of Aimee Semple McPherson.[10] Sister Aimee screened at Sundance Film Festival in 2019,[8] and is planned to have a theatrical run and video on demand release in 2020.[11]

Production filmography
Year Title Buck Schlingmann Notes
2008 The Reasons We Were Dangerous Co-director, editor, producer Documentary[12]
2009 21 Below Director Documentary[13]
2012 The Death of Hercules Director, writer Short[12]
2013 Best Kept Secret Director, writer, co-producer Thanks Documentary[2]
2013 Lawn Care Producer Director, writer [12]
2014 Glacial Erratics Director Writer, producer [12]
2015 The Mink Catcher Director, writer Writer, producer [3]
2016 Canary Writer, producer Director, writer [12]
2019 Sister Aimee Director, writer Director, writer [14]

Buck acting filmography

Film
Year Title Role Notes
1997 The Sticky Fingers of Time Gorge [15]
1997 In & Out Classroom Student [16]
1998 Fiona Supervisor [17]
1999 The 24 Hour Woman Deanne [18]
2000 Wirey Spindell Samantha [18]
2000 Calling Bobcat Judy [19]
2002 Searching for Paradise Andrea [20]
2002 Heartbreak Hospital Sandy [18]
2006 Fearless Journalist [21]
2006 Kettle of Fish Mother [18]
2008 Woman in Burka Samantha Short film[22]
2012 Gayby Sophia [12][16]
2012 Hellbenders Penelope [12]
2012 What Maisie Knew Zoe's Mother [12][16]
2018 Summertime Ruth [16]
2018 Private Life Psychologist [16]
2020 The Night House Becky [21]

Television
Year Title Role Notes
2000 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Waitress Episode: "Entitled"[16]
2000 Third Watch Vangie Sundstrom Recurring role (5 episodes)[12][16]
2001 Big Apple Brigid McNamara Regular role (5 episodes)[12]
2003 Sex and the City Margot Episode: "A Woman's Right to Shoes"[12]
2003–2004 Law & Order: Criminal Intent Det. G. Lynn Bishop Recurring role (7 episodes)[12][16]
2005 Stella Amy Regular role (6 episodes)[12]
2007 Six Degrees Susan Harriman Recurring role (5 episodes)[12][16]
2007 Wainy Days Concerned Woman Episode: "The Pickup"[23]
2008 Z Rock Kitty Braunstein 3 episodes[23]
2013 Golden Boy Tara Brunell TV series[12][16]
2013 Blue Bloods Sheri Dean Episode: "Ends and Means"[12][16]
2014 Boardwalk Empire Apartment Hunting Wife Episode: "Eldorado"[16]
2015 Public Morals Sister Paul Eugene 1 episode[16]
2016 Vinyl Allison 2 episodes[16]
2016 Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Sophie Van Nuys [16]
2016 Person of Interest Samaritan Doctor 1 episode[23]
2020 Hightown Meredith 1 episode[16]

References
  1. "Sundance 2019 Women Directors: Meet Samantha Buck and Marie Schlingmann – "Sister Aimee"". womenandhollywood.com. Archived from the original on June 12, 2020. Retrieved June 12, 2020.
  2. Myers, Scott (March 17, 2019). "Interview: Samantha Buck and Marie Schlingmann". Medium. Retrieved June 12, 2020.
  3. "Samantha Buck and Marie Schlingmann Adapting Popular Young Adult Novel, NEED". Rama Film. November 2, 2016. Archived from the original on June 12, 2020. Retrieved June 12, 2020.
  4. "Film Fatales | Marie Schlingmann". www.filmfatales.org. Archived from the original on June 12, 2020. Retrieved June 12, 2020.
  5. Terrace, Vincent (2011). Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 through 2010 (2nd ed.). Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. p. 587. ISBN 978-0-7864-6477-7.
  6. "POV: Best Kept Secret (PBS)". Peabody: Stories That Matter. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communications, University of Georgia. Archived from the original on August 10, 2019. Retrieved August 10, 2019.
  7. "The Mink Catcher by Samantha Buck & Marie Schlingmann". Short of the Week. Archived from the original on June 12, 2020. Retrieved June 12, 2020.
  8. D'Alessandro, Anthony (February 8, 2019). "Sundance 'Sister Aimee' Filmmakers Sign With ICM". Deadline. Archived from the original on June 12, 2020. Retrieved June 12, 2020.
  9. "The Mink Catcher || Featured Short Film". Film Shortage. Archived from the original on June 12, 2020. Retrieved June 12, 2020.
  10. "'Sister Aimee' Film Review: Fictionalized Tale of the Evangelist's Disappearance Gets Lost On Its Own Path". TheWrap. September 26, 2019. Archived from the original on June 12, 2020. Retrieved June 12, 2020.
  11. Gomez-Weston, Adriana (August 22, 2019). "The Watch List: Samantha Buck and Marie Schlingmann's 'Sister Aimee'". THE CINEMA SOLOIST. Archived from the original on June 12, 2020. Retrieved June 12, 2020.
  12. "Canary". Indiegogo. Archived from the original on September 27, 2020. Retrieved August 3, 2020.
  13. "21 Below Samantha Buck". exclaim.ca. Archived from the original on September 27, 2020. Retrieved August 3, 2020.
  14. "Sister Aimee". Dallas International Film Festival. Dallas Film Society. Archived from the original on August 10, 2019. Retrieved August 10, 2019.
  15. Stratton, David (October 13, 1997). "The Sticky Fingers of Time". Variety. Archived from the original on September 27, 2020. Retrieved August 3, 2020.
  16. AdoroCinema. "Filmografia Samantha Buck". AdoroCinema (in Brazilian Portuguese). Archived from the original on September 27, 2020. Retrieved August 3, 2020.
  17. "Fiona (1998) - Video Detective". January 1998. Archived from the original on September 27, 2020. Retrieved August 3, 2020.
  18. "Samantha Buck | TV Guide". TVGuide.com. Archived from the original on September 26, 2015. Retrieved August 3, 2020.
  19. "Calling Bobcat (2000) - Video Detective". December 11, 2000. Retrieved August 3, 2020.
  20. "Searching for Paradise | Buck, Samantha (Actor), Davies, Jeremy (Actor)". April 2005. Archived from the original on October 26, 2015. Retrieved August 3, 2020 – via Amazon.
  21. "Samantha Buck". Tomatazos (in Spanish). December 20, 1976. Archived from the original on September 27, 2020. Retrieved August 3, 2020.
  22. "MIFF | 8" Film Festival Internazionale di Milano - Woman in Burka". MIFF. Archived from the original on September 27, 2020. Retrieved August 3, 2020.
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