Be The Media! Positioning Yourself as Subject in Documentary Filmmaking
November 29 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm EST
Learn from “Confessions of a Good Samaritan” Director Penny Lane’s decision to position herself as director, film subject, and kidney donor!
After the workshop, stick around for a screening of “Confessions of a Good Samaritan” and a talk by the filmmaker!
About the Presenter
Penny Lane (Director) 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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