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EXCLUSIVE: In the wake of their film _Sister Aimee_ making its world premiere at Sundance in the Next section, married writing/directing duo Samantha Buck and Marie Schlingmann have inked

with ICM partners. The pic, starring Anna Margaret Hollyman and Amy Hargreaves tells the story of America’s most famous evangelist, a woman, in 1926. Fed up with her own success, she gets

swept up in her lover’s daydreams about Mexico and finds herself on a wild road trip towards the border, hoping to escape her career. The pic will next play SXSW. Buck and Schlingmann are

currently in development on their second feature _The Big D_ with producers Bettina Barrow and Lily Rabe, who is also attached to star in the film. Buck and Schlingmann’s credits include the

short films _The Mink Catcher_ and _Canary_ which played Telluride, SXSW, Palm Springs International Shortsfest and Provincetown, among others. WATCH ON DEADLINE Buck directed the Peabody

award-winning documentary _Best Kept Secret_, which was a _New York Times_ Critic’s Pick, the closing film for the PBS series “POV” and was also nominated for a Gotham Independent Film

Audience Award. She was also a recipient of the Sundance Institute’s Documentary Fund grant and received The Adrienne Shelly’s Foundation Grant for Female Directors. Schlingmann is from

Berlin and has a background in photography, gender and sexuality studies, and political campaign ads. Her accolades include receiving the David Jones Memorial Award for Best Director and the

ASCAP Scoring Fellowship. Buck and Schlingmann continue to be represented by Lee Stobby Entertainment and by Stephen Clark at Lichter Grossman.