Samantha Buck and Marie Schlingmann
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{{short description|Film writers and directors}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Samantha Buck
| image = The crew of Best Kept Secret at the 73rd Annual Peabody Awards (cropped).jpg
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| caption = Samantha Buck receiving the Peabody for Best Kept Secret
| birth_name = Samantha Susan Buck
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1974|12|20}}
| birth_place = Dallas, Texas, U.S.
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| occupation = Director, actress, screenwriter
| years_active = 1997–present
| spouse = Marie Schlingmann
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{{Infobox person
| name = Marie Schlingmann
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| birth_place = Berlin, Germany
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| occupation = Director, screenwriter
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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.
Personal life and education
Buck and Schlingmann are married,{{Cite web|title=Sundance 2019 Women Directors: Meet Samantha Buck and Marie Schlingmann – "Sister Aimee"|url=https://womenandhollywood.com/sundance-2019-women-directors-meet-samantha-buck-and-marie-schlingmann-sister-aimee/|access-date=June 12, 2020|website=womenandhollywood.com|archive-date=June 12, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200612031048/https://womenandhollywood.com/sundance-2019-women-directors-meet-samantha-buck-and-marie-schlingmann-sister-aimee/|url-status=live}} having met at Columbia University.{{Cite web|last=Myers|first=Scott|date=March 17, 2019|title=Interview: Samantha Buck and Marie Schlingmann|url=https://gointothestory.blcklst.com/interview-samantha-buck-and-marie-schlingmann-cc3ad2118ae9|access-date=June 12, 2020|website=Medium|language=en}} 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.{{Cite web|date=November 2, 2016|title=Samantha Buck and Marie Schlingmann Adapting Popular Young Adult Novel, NEED|url=https://www.ramascreen.com/samantha-buck-and-marie-schlingmann-adapting-popular-young-adult-novel-need/|access-date=June 12, 2020|website=Rama Film|archive-date=June 12, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200612040423/https://www.ramascreen.com/samantha-buck-and-marie-schlingmann-adapting-popular-young-adult-novel-need/|url-status=live}} The pair have won various grants for female directors. Schlingmann is from Berlin,{{Cite web|title=Film Fatales {{!}} Marie Schlingmann|url=http://www.filmfatales.org/directors/marieschlingmann|access-date=June 12, 2020|website=www.filmfatales.org|archive-date=June 12, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200612040413/http://www.filmfatales.org/directors/marieschlingmann|url-status=live}} and though she is German, she writes screenplays in English, saying that her "creative brain" is in this language.
Career
In her acting career, Buck played Det. G. Lynn Bishop in Law & Order: Criminal Intent{{cite book|last1=Terrace|first1=Vincent|title=Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 through 2010|date=2011|publisher=McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers|location=Jefferson, N.C.|isbn=978-0-7864-6477-7|page=587|edition=2nd}} and Amy on the comedy series Stella.{{r|etvs|page1=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". In 2013 she directed the Gotham Award-nominated and Peabody Award-winning documentary film Best Kept Secret.{{cite web|title=POV: Best Kept Secret (PBS)|url=http://www.peabodyawards.com/award-profile/best-kept-secret-pbs|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190810001606/http://www.peabodyawards.com/award-profile/best-kept-secret-pbs|archivedate=August 10, 2019|accessdate=August 10, 2019|website=Peabody: Stories That Matter|publisher=Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communications, University of Georgia}} During the production of Best Kept Secret, Buck applied and was accepted to Columbia's film program.
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. 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. This year they also began development of the feature film The Big D,{{Cite web|title=The Mink Catcher by Samantha Buck & Marie Schlingmann|url=https://www.shortoftheweek.com/2016/11/17/the-mink-catcher|access-date=June 12, 2020|website=Short of the Week|archive-date=June 12, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200612040413/https://www.shortoftheweek.com/2016/11/17/the-mink-catcher|url-status=live}} something which they were still developing in 2019.{{Cite web|last=D'Alessandro|first=Anthony|date=February 8, 2019|title=Sundance 'Sister Aimee' Filmmakers Sign With ICM|url=https://deadline.com/2019/02/sundance-sister-aimee-directors-samantha-buck-marie-schlingmann-sign-with-icm-1202552876/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200612040412/https://deadline.com/2019/02/sundance-sister-aimee-directors-samantha-buck-marie-schlingmann-sign-with-icm-1202552876/|archive-date=June 12, 2020|access-date=June 12, 2020|website=Deadline|language=en}} Both The Mink Catcher and The Big D are set in Dallas, Texas.{{Cite web|title=The Mink Catcher {{!}}{{!}} Featured Short Film|url=https://filmshortage.com/shorts/the-mink-catcher/|access-date=June 12, 2020|website=Film Shortage|language=en-US|archive-date=June 12, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200612040415/https://filmshortage.com/shorts/the-mink-catcher/|url-status=live}} Their breakthrough feature came a few years later in 2019's Sister Aimee, which is loosely based on the story of Aimee Semple McPherson.{{Cite web|date=September 26, 2019|title='Sister Aimee' Film Review: Fictionalized Tale of the Evangelist's Disappearance Gets Lost On Its Own Path|url=https://www.thewrap.com/sister-aimee-film-review-mcpherson-anna-margaret-hollyman/|access-date=June 12, 2020|website=TheWrap|language=en-US|archive-date=June 12, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200612040415/https://www.thewrap.com/sister-aimee-film-review-mcpherson-anna-margaret-hollyman/|url-status=live}} Sister Aimee screened at Sundance Film Festival in 2019, and is planned to have a theatrical run and video on demand release in 2020.{{Cite web|last=Gomez-Weston|first=Adriana|date=August 22, 2019|title=The Watch List: Samantha Buck and Marie Schlingmann's 'Sister Aimee'|url=https://thecinemasoloist.org/the-watch-list-samantha-buck-and-marie-schlingmanns-sister-aimee/|access-date=June 12, 2020|website=THE CINEMA SOLOIST|language=en-US|archive-date=June 12, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200612040417/https://thecinemasoloist.org/the-watch-list-samantha-buck-and-marie-schlingmanns-sister-aimee/|url-status=live}}
Production filmography
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Buck ! Schlingmann ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| 2008
|The Reasons We Were Dangerous | |Co-director, editor, producer |
| 2009
|21 Below |Director | |
| 2012
|The Death of Hercules | |Director, writer |
| 2013
|Director, writer, co-producer |Thanks |
| 2013
|Lawn Care |Producer |Director, writer |
| 2014
|Glacial Erratics |Director |Writer, producer |
| 2015
|The Mink Catcher |Director, writer |Writer, producer |
| 2016
|Canary |Writer, producer |Director, writer |
| 2019
|Director, writer |Director, writer |
Buck acting filmography
=Film=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| 1997
|{{sortname|The|Sticky Fingers of Time}} |Gorge |
| 1997
|Classroom Student |
| 1998
|Fiona |Supervisor |
| 1999
|{{sortname|The|24 Hour Woman}} |Deanne |
| 2000
|Samantha |
| 2000
|Calling Bobcat |Judy |
| 2002
|Andrea |
| 2002
|Heartbreak Hospital |Sandy |
| 2006
|Journalist |
| 2006
|Mother |
| 2008
|Woman in Burka |Samantha |
| 2012
|Sophia |
| 2012
|Hellbenders |Penelope |
| 2012
|Zoe's Mother |
| 2018
|Ruth |
| 2018
|Psychologist |
| 2020
|Becky |
=Television=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| 2000
|Law & Order: Special Victims Unit |Waitress |
| 2000
|Vangie Sundstrom |
| 2001
|Brigid McNamara |
| 2003
|Margot |
| 2003–2004
|Det. G. Lynn Bishop |
| 2005
|Amy |
| 2007
|Susan Harriman |
| 2007
|Concerned Woman |
| 2008
|Kitty Braunstein |
| 2013
|Tara Brunell |
| 2013
|Sheri Dean |
| 2014
|Apartment Hunting Wife |
| 2015
|Sister Paul Eugene |
| 2016
|Allison |
| 2016
|Sophie Van Nuys |
| 2016
|Samaritan Doctor |
| 2020
|Meredith |
References
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External links
{{Commonscat|Samantha Buck}}
- {{IMDb name|0118419|Samantha Buck}}
- {{imdb name|5847305|Marie Schlingmann}}
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