Samantha Stark is a DirectorProducer on The New York Times Presents on FX and Hulu She previously worked in the same capacity on The Weekly the first iteration of the series Before that she was a staff video journalist at the NYT where she shot and edited short documentaries and video series She loves stories that celebrate life and has been lucky enough to film with thrilling people Some of her favorites include a teenager who let scientists rewrite her DNA a clothes dyer who forged passports so children could escape persecution a 92yearold entering a beauty pageant for the first time and of course Britney Spears Samantha is an Emmy and World Press Photo award winner and a Peabody award finalist She also taught video storytelling at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY Framing Britney Spears is her first featurelength documentary