Confessions of a Good Samaritan (2024)
Director: Penny Lane Run Time: 105 min. Rating: NR Release Year: 2023
Starring: Penny Lane
Country: United States
Language: English
About the film:
World Premiere, 2023 SXSW Film Festival.
Director 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. “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?
About the filmmaker:
Penny Lane is a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow who has been making innovative nonfiction films for over a decade. Penny has made six feature-length documentaries including Listening to Kenny G (2021), Hail Satan? (2019), The Pain of Others (2018), Nuts! (2016), and Our Nixon (2013). Lane’s most recent film, Confessions of a Good Samaritan (2023), won the Special Recognition Jury Prize at SXSW 2023.
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