Beth Lane is the award-winning director, executive producer and writer of the feature documentary film, UnBroken. An actress, singer and dancer, she is a second-generation Holocaust survivor. Beth’s driving force has always been to create spaces to exercise our collective capacity for empathy through storytelling, design and meditation. Building bridges for a better future is paramount to her work.
A keynote speaker, she has curated and served on panels nationwide & hosted over 40 episodes of a weekly Instagram Live on-camera podcast, Banter with Beth.
The World Premiere of UnBroken was awarded Best Documentary Feature Film for Beth’s directorial debut in Indianapolis at The Heartland International Film Festival in 2023, which took place on October 8th, 2023, one day after the terrorist organization Hamas attacked Israel in the worst genocide against the Jewish people since the Holocaust.
UnBroken has continued to win audience choice awards at the River Run Int’l Film Festival, Julien Dubuque Int’l Film Festival and The Berkshire Int’l Film Festival. Beth also received the Best First Time Filmmaker Award at Hot Springs Int’l Women’s Film Festival in 2024.
UnBroken began its journey at UCLA’s School of Theatre, Film & Television in 2017 while Beth was studying to receive her MFA. The film is both a professional milestone for her and a personal quest to immortalize the incredible story of the Weber siblings’ survival as Jews living in Nazi Germany. The unwavering courage shown by those who helped the siblings survive, as well as the original music, graphics and animations employed in Beth’s storytelling, are critical components to her style as a director.
She is the founder of The Weber Family Arts Foundation which is the culmination of many thoughtful years of experience as an artist and activist serving on philanthropic boards and volunteering. The mission of WFAF is to combat antisemitism, bigotry and hate by driving awareness, engagement and activism through the arts, across a wide variety of mediums, by sharing stories of hope. UnBroken is The Weber Family Arts Foundation’s inaugural project.
