Penny Lane

Penny Lane

Born: March 6, 1978
in Lynn, Massachusetts, USA
Penny Lane is an award-winning nonfiction filmmaker who was named one of Filmmaker Magazine's "25 New Faces of Independent Film" in 2012.

Movies for Penny Lane...

Confessions of a Good Samaritan
Title: Confessions of a Good Samaritan
Character: Self
Released: March 10, 2023
Type: Movie
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?
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Hail Satan?
Title: Hail Satan?
Character: Self - Interwiever (voice) (uncredited)
Released: April 17, 2019
Type: Movie
The story of The Satanic Temple, a controversial movement that combines religion and activism with the apparent purpose of questioning the basic foundations of US society.
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Watching the Pain of Others
Title: Watching the Pain of Others
Character: Herself
Released: April 2, 2019
Type: Movie
In this deeply personal video diary, a young researcher tries to make sense of her fascination for the film "The Pain of Others" by Penny Lane. A deep dive into the discomforting world of YouTube and online conspiracies, that challenges traditional notions of what documentary cinema is, or should be.
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Just Add Water: The Story of the Amazing Live Sea-Monkeys
Title: Just Add Water: The Story of the Amazing Live Sea-Monkeys
Character: Narrator
Released: December 27, 2016
Type: Movie
The Story of the Amazing Live Sea-Monkeys is the colourful and surprising true story of a man named Harold von Braunhut; a man who could look at the humblest of creatures – the brine shrimp – and imagine an empire built upon it. Breezy, colourful short about a half-century of marketing directly to children, the force of nostalgia in pop culture, and an unlikely meeting of flimflam and hard science.
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We Are the Littletons: A True Story
Title: We Are the Littletons: A True Story
Released: January 1, 2004
Type: Movie
We Are The Littletons presents a tangled web of found objects, intercepted correspondences, reenactments and total fabrications centered around Eve Littleton, an artist with "movie star good looks" who was mysteriously banished from her postcard-perfect American family.