Citizen Penn

Cynical about celebrity activists? This film mounts a convincing counter argument for Sean Penn. Penn, whose father Leo was blacklisted as a Communist, has made no secret of his disgust at American imperialism, and has regularly ventured to places like Iraq, Venezuela, Cuba, and New Orleans post Katrina. But as this film chronicles, over the last decade much of his energy has gone into supporting the people of Haiti after the devastating earthquake of 2010, which claimed a quarter of a million lives and displaced many more.