Sean Penn, Ava DuVernay and Laura Poitras Turn Out For San Francisco’s Doc Stories

Sean Penn, Ava DuVernay and Laura Poitras Turn Out For San Francisco’s Doc Stories hakkında magazin dünyasında yaşanan en son ayrıntılar ve sıcak gelişmeler netleşti. Nov 9, 2026 3:02pm PT Sean Penn, Ava DuVernay and Laura Poitras Turn Out For San Francisco’s Doc Stories The annual documentary film festival is a key stop on the awards circuit for doc contenders By Addie Morfoot Plus Icon Addie Morfoot Contributor @kamorfoot Latest Doc Stories Unveils 12th Annual Film Lineup (EXCLUSIVE) 4 weeks ago Nat Geo Kicks Off New Multi-Year Doc Franchise With ‘Africa Earth’s Wild Home’ 1 month ago Online Sleuthing Is Out of Control, and the Vitriol Against Patrick Clancy Proves It 2 months ago See All Add us as a Google Preferred Source Comments Sean Penn isn’t exactly a fixture on the regional documentary festival circuit. But SFFILM’s Doc Stories has a way of attracting high-profile supporters.

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On Saturday, Penn was at the fest’s Vogue Theatre in San Francisco to introduce James Marcus Haney’s “Black Sunflowers,” a documentary about a generation of young Ukrainians coming of age amid martial law and the demands of a country at war. Penn, an outspoken supporter of Ukraine and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, signed on as the film’s executive producer before its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September.

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Related Stories ’14th’ Director Ava DuVernay on Midterm Elections: ‘Either Way We’re in Trouble’ ‘La Bola Negra’ to Receive International Star Award at Palm Springs International Film Festival (EXCLUSIVE) “Who do you imagine yourself singing like if you could sing like somebody?” Penn told the packed theater. “This movie is the song I dreamed I could sing.” Penn was one of several Oscar winners at the 12th edition of Doc Stories that concluded on Sunday.

Anne Lai, SFFILM executive director, said the organization’s mission, embodied by Doc Stories and the annual San Francisco Film Festival, is to keep independent voices alive by supporting filmmakers with distinctive work and helping them reach audiences. “That means not only supporting films and filmmakers who are trying to put distinctive work out into the world, but also growing and sharing that work with audiences,” said Lai.

“So as we talk about consolidations of studios and what happens on the margins, I think a lot about us as an organization is trying to look at what is in the margins because a lot of the most interesting things do not come through the mainstream.” Academy Award-winner Laura Poitras attended the fest with her short “They’re Here,” about ICE agents’ descent on Minneapolis. It was one of 11 short documentaries that screened at Doc Stories.

Poitras and “They’re Here” co-director Rachel Lauren Mueller spoke in depth about making the film during the fest’s Doc Talks series. “We describe (the film) as a horror documentary,” said Mueller, who is Minneapolis-based and shot most of the doc in January and February 2026 while residents were evading and resisting the paramilitary occupation of their city.

“Being in the occupation just as a human being and not even as a filmmaker was one of the most difficult experiences of my life,” Mueller said. “There were tanks rolling down my street.

It was not the first time. That also happened after the murder of George Floyd, but this was different because the streets were filled with tear gas.

They were kidnapping people from street corners right around my house.” Poitras, known for her feature documentaries including “Citizenfour,” “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed” and “Cover-Up,” said that the gravity of the situation was one reason she and Mueller decided to make “They’re Here” a sho

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