The Mink Catcher
United States, 12m, Digital
Dallas, Texas, 1980: At a high society party, a society columnist hunts down Dallas's new first lady to unearth the truths underneath her legendary mink coat.
Director: Samantha Buck
Writer(s): Samantha Buck, Marie Schlingmann
Producer(s): Daniella Kahane, Marie Schlingmann
Executive Producer(s): Katherine Harper
Associate Producer(s): Laura Heberton
Director of Photography: Josh Weinstein
Editor(s): Matt Posorske
Production Design: Jonathan Rudak
Composer(s): Leeran Raphaely
Sound Design: Larry Zipf
Cast: Anna Margaret Hollyman, Susan May Pratt, Kristin Slaysman
Contact: Samantha Buck, sam.s.buck@gmail.com
About the Writer/Director
SAMANTHA BUCK is a director, screenwriter and actress. She directed the Peabody Award winning documentary Best Kept Secret. It was a New York Times Critics Pick and the closing film on PBS’s series POV. Her first feature, 21 Below, premiered at Hot Docs and was broadcast on Channel 4. She is a recipient of the Sundance Institute’s Documentary Fund and the Adrienne Shelley Foundation Finishing Funds grant for female filmmakers.
About the Producer
MARIE SCHLINGMANN is a New York City-based director and screenwriter and is currently pursuing her M.F.A. in Film at Columbia University. She is the recipient of the David Jones Memorial Award for Best Director (2013). Before coming to New York, Marie worked at Razor Film in Berlin and graduated from Humboldt University with a degree in Gender and Cultural Studies.
