Samantha Buck

Samantha Buck is an actress, writer and director from Dallas who makes films with Marie Schlingmann; together they have made five films. Her television acting includes Amy in the comedy series Stella and Detective G. Lynn Bishop on Law & Order: Criminal Intent. Starring on Big Apple drew her toward production, because the showrunner held writing workshops for the cast and encouraged her, and she eventually moved behind the camera, beginning with cinema verite documentary work before directing Best Kept Secret (2013), which was nominated for a Gotham Award and won a Peabody Award. She also studied at Columbia, where she and Schlingmann made the award-winning shorts Canary and The Mink Catcher, the latter shown at Telluride and South by Southwest. Their 2019 feature Sister Aimee, a loose take on Aimee Semple McPherson's story, screened at the Sundance Film Festival and became their breakthrough.