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  • 2021
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  • 1 h 33 m
  • 2021
  • Discovery+
  • 1 h 33 m
Citizen Penn

Summary Citizen Penn ​chronicles the moment Sean Penn and his team of volunteers landed in Haiti, just days after the earthquake struck, and the ten years since. The film offers viewers a look into the triumphs and challenges of those who decided to do something. For Penn, Haiti changed his life. He went there for what he thought was a two-week ...

Directed By: Don Hardy

Written By: Don Hardy

  • 2021
  • Discovery+
  • 1 h 33 m
  • 2021
  • Discovery+
  • 1 h 33 m

Citizen Penn

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Summary Citizen Penn ​chronicles the moment Sean Penn and his team of volunteers landed in Haiti, just days after the earthquake struck, and the ten years since. The film offers viewers a look into the triumphs and challenges of those who decided to do something. For Penn, Haiti changed his life. He went there for what he thought was a two-week ...

Directed By: Don Hardy

Written By: Don Hardy

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May 3, 2021
Citizen Penn isn’t a wholly balanced portrait of the “do gooder” star and humanitarian. It flirts with turning towards hagiography, here and there. But what it manages to get across is that dismissing Penn and his passion for philanthropy of this sort is a mistake, that he’s sincere, committed to the long game, and an impatient man-of-action pretty good at articulating why you should pitch in, too, in whatever way works.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW
70
May 12, 2021
Some of this is stirring stuff, and all of it is worth learning about, but as a documentary Citizen Penn is more diligent than riveting.
By Owen Gleiberman FULL REVIEW
70
May 6, 2021
Sean Penn’s work in Haiti after its devastating 2011 earthquake continues to this day. And this new documentary Citizen Penn is a revealing, engaging chronicle of the actor’s activism.
By Glenn Kenny FULL REVIEW
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Oct 26, 2020
Although Penn is the focal point of Citizen Penn, the real citizens of this story are the Haitians. They are resilient, optimistic, and refuse to be labeled as victims. I do wish that we got to meet some of them a bit more intimately, that Hardy delved a little deeper into Haiti’s sociopolitical history. As it stands, it functions as a perfectly serviceable call to action, an extended, heartfelt PSA that neither glamorizes nor demonizes the actor.
By Alex Saveliev FULL REVIEW

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Production Company KTF Films
Release Date May 6, 2021
Duration 1 h 33 m
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Website http://www.ktffilms.com/
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Awards

Heartland International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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