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Confessions of a Good Samaritan

Penny Lane (Director)

Filmmaker: Penny Lane (Director)
Envoy: Penny Lane (Director)

Synopsis: Penny Lane’s decision to become a “Good Samaritan” by giving one of her kidneys to a stranger turns into a funny and moving personal quest to understand the nature of altruism.

About the Envoy:

Penny Lane has been making award-winning, innovative nonfiction films for over a decade. This includes six features ¬– most recently Confessions of a Good Samaritan, winner of the Hope Award at SXSW 2023 – and over a dozen short films. A 2020 Guggenheim Fellow, Lane has also received grants and awards from the Sundance Film Festival, Cinereach, Creative Capital, Chicken & Egg Pictures, Tribeca Film Institute, Wexner Center for the Arts and many others. Penny has been honored with mid-career retrospectives at the Museum of the Moving Image, San Francisco DocFest, Open City Documentary Festival and Cinema Moderne. She is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. And yes, Penny Lane is her real name.