The annual documentary film festival is a key stop on the awards circuit for doc contenders
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Pamela Gentile 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.
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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