{
  "id": 19239676,
  "title": "Sean Penn, Ava DuVernay and Laura Poitras Turn Out For San Francisco’s Doc Stories",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/09/sean-penn-ava-duvernay-and-laura-poitras-turn-out-for-san-franciscos",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-11-09T23:02:06.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Variety",
    "slug": "variety",
    "url": "https://variety.com/2026/film/news/sean-penn-ava-duvernay-laura-poitras-doc-stories-1236943431/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "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 […]",
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}