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 | |
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Born | Samantha Susan Buck December 20, 1974 Dallas, Texas, U.S. |
Occupation(s) | Director, actress, screenwriter |
Years active | 1997–present |
Spouse | Marie Schlingmann |
Marie Schlingmann | |
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Born | Berlin, Germany |
Occupation(s) | Director, screenwriter |
Spouse | Samantha Buck |
Personal life and education
editBuck 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
editIn 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
editYear | Title | Buck | Schlingmann | Notes |
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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
editFilm
editYear | Title | Role | Notes |
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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
editYear | Title | Role | Notes |
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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
edit- ^ "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.
- ^ a b c d e Myers, Scott (March 17, 2019). "Interview: Samantha Buck and Marie Schlingmann". Medium. Retrieved June 12, 2020.
- ^ a b c d e "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.
- ^ "Film Fatales | Marie Schlingmann". www.filmfatales.org. Archived from the original on June 12, 2020. Retrieved June 12, 2020.
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "The Mink Catcher by Samantha Buck & Marie Schlingmann". Short of the Week. Archived from the original on June 12, 2020. Retrieved June 12, 2020.
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ "The Mink Catcher || Featured Short Film". Film Shortage. Archived from the original on June 12, 2020. Retrieved June 12, 2020.
- ^ "'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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p "Canary". Indiegogo. Archived from the original on September 27, 2020. Retrieved August 3, 2020.
- ^ "21 Below Samantha Buck". exclaim.ca. Archived from the original on September 27, 2020. Retrieved August 3, 2020.
- ^ "Sister Aimee". Dallas International Film Festival. Dallas Film Society. Archived from the original on August 10, 2019. Retrieved August 10, 2019.
- ^ Stratton, David (October 13, 1997). "The Sticky Fingers of Time". Variety. Archived from the original on September 27, 2020. Retrieved August 3, 2020.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p AdoroCinema. "Filmografia Samantha Buck". AdoroCinema (in Brazilian Portuguese). Archived from the original on September 27, 2020. Retrieved August 3, 2020.
- ^ "Fiona (1998) - Video Detective". January 1998. Archived from the original on September 27, 2020. Retrieved August 3, 2020.
- ^ a b c d "Samantha Buck | TV Guide". TVGuide.com. Archived from the original on September 26, 2015. Retrieved August 3, 2020.
- ^ "Calling Bobcat (2000) - Video Detective". December 11, 2000. Retrieved August 3, 2020.
- ^ "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.
- ^ a b "Samantha Buck". Tomatazos (in Spanish). December 20, 1976. Archived from the original on September 27, 2020. Retrieved August 3, 2020.
- ^ "MIFF | 8" Film Festival Internazionale di Milano - Woman in Burka". MIFF. Archived from the original on September 27, 2020. Retrieved August 3, 2020.
- ^ a b c "Samantha Buck". TV.com. Archived from the original on January 25, 2020. Retrieved August 4, 2020.