Beth Lane

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Beth Lane
Education University of Michigan (BA)
UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television (MA)
Notable work UnBroken (2025)
Website bethlane.com

Beth Lane is an American film director, producer, actress, dancer, singer and writer. Her debut feature documentary UnBroken (2025), premiered at the 32nd Heartland International Film Festival where it won Best Documentary Feature Premiere. [1]

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Early life and education

Lane is the second child born to Holocaust survivor Ginger Speigel Lane, nee Bela Weber, and retired attorney Frederic S. Lane. She has an older brother and younger sister. [2] She was raised in Chicago [3] and her first foray into public performance was with Joyce and Byrne Piven's Young People’s Company [4] alongside Joan Cusack and Ann Cusack. While attending New Trier East High School in Winnetka, Illinois, she landed a small role as a tap dancer in Tony Bill’s feature film My Bodyguard .

Work

While working for her Master of Fine Arts in Theatre at the University of California, Los Angeles, she went into pre-production on her feature directorial debut documentary UnBroken . [5] Following the film's festival run, it was acquired by Greenwich Entertainment and had its theatrical release on February 21, 2025, [6] and later premiered on Netflix on April 23, 2025. [7]

Filmography

List of film credits of Beth Lane
YearTitleNotes
2025 UnBroken Director, writer and producer

Awards and recognition

AwardDateCategoryResultRef.
Heartland International Film Festival 2023Best Documentary Feature PremiereWon [8]
Hot Springs International Women's Film Festival2024Best First-Time FilmmakerWon
Boca International Jewish Film Festival2025Best Holocaust DocumentaryWon

References

  1. ↑ "32nd Heartland International Film Festival Announces Winners & Presents $60,000 in cash prizes". Heartland Film. Retrieved 26 September 2025.
  2. ↑ Sweet, Lynn. "Ginger Lane, a Chicago Holocaust survivor urges, 'Never be a bystander'". Chicago Sun Times. Retrieved 26 September 2025.
  3. ↑ Patta, Gig. "UnBroken | Beth Lane on Chronicling Seven Child Family Survivors of the Holocaust — DOC NYC 2023". LRM Online. Retrieved 26 September 2025.
  4. ↑ "Conversations with Beth Lane". VoyageLA. Retrieved 26 September 2025.
  5. ↑ Pulver, Karen. "Beth Lane: Exploring Bravery, Courage, And Your Moral Compass In "Would You Hide Me?"". Grateful Goddesses.
  6. ↑ Carey, Matthew. "Greenwich Entertainment Acquires 'UnBroken,' Film Documenting A Family's Remarkable Survival Story In Nazi Germany". Deadline.
  7. ↑ Moore, Kasey. "'UnBroken': Netflix Sets Streaming Date For Powerful WWII Documentary". What's On Netflix. Retrieved 26 September 2025.
  8. ↑ "32nd Heartland International Film Festival Announces Winners & Presents $60,000 in cash prizes". Heartland Film. Retrieved 26 September 2025.
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