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Confessions of a Good Samaritan

Director

Penny Lane

Executive Producers

Greg Boustead, Jessica Harrop, Michael Cho, Mimi Rode, Tim Lee

Producer

Gabriel Sedgwick

Editor

Hannah Buck

Consulting Editor

Co-Editor

Assistant Editor

Cinematographer

Naiti Gámez

Additional Cinematography

Music

Sound

Narration

Contact

Director Penny Lane’s decision to become a “Good Samaritan” by giving one of her kidneys to a stranger – someone she’s never met, and never will meet – launches her on a provocative, intimate, and unexpectedly funny quest to understand the nature of altruism. Confessions of a Good Samaritan is a provocative inquiry into the science, history, and ethics of organ transplantation, asking an ancient question in a whole new way: who is your neighbor, and what do you owe them?

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Penny Lane

Director, Confessions of a Good Samaritan

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, premiering 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.

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