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SWEET MICKY FOR PRESIDENT follows Pras Michel, Grammy award-winning rapper and founder of the hip-hop group, The Fugees, as he returns to his homeland of Haiti post-earthquake and finds a corrupt government in paralysis. With no experience or money, Pras passionately mobilizes a presidential campaign for the unlikeliest of candidates: Michel Martelly, aka “Sweet Micky”, Haiti’s most popular and most outlandish pop star.
The idealistic and politically inexperienced pair set out against a corrupt government, civil unrest, and a fixed election system to change the course of Haitian history. When Pras’s former bandmate – superstar Wyclef Jean – also enters the presidential race, their chances seem further doomed and the story takes on the wild twists of celebrity drama.
Pras Michel acts as a masterful storyteller in SWEET MICKY FOR PRESIDENT and Director Ben Patterson brilliantly captures an important part of Haiti’s history as a fledgling democracy struggling to produce a government worthy of the world’s first black republic.
Original Release
01/23/2015
US Release
01/23/2015
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Ben Stiller | Self |
Sean Penn | Self |
Wyclef Jean | |
Sarodj Bertin | Self |
Dupera Wilguens | Self |
Mirlande Manigat | Self |
Damian Merlo | Self |
Claudine Oriol | Self |
Michel Martelly | |
Pras Michel |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Ben Stiller | Self |
Sean Penn | Self |
Wyclef Jean | |
Sarodj Bertin | Self |
Dupera Wilguens | Self |
Mirlande Manigat | Self |
Damian Merlo | Self |
Claudine Oriol | Self |
Michel Martelly | |
Pras Michel |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Rick Alvarez | Executive Producer |
Allison Hagendorf | Executive Producer |
Stephen C. Harris | Executive Producer |
Oliver Luckett | Executive Producer |
Bryn Mooser | Executive Producer |
Suki Sohn | Executive Producer |
Marlon Wayans | Executive Producer |
Ben Patterson | Producer |
Pras Michel | Producer |
Macc Plaise | Producer |
Karyn Rachtman | Producer |
Wyatt Rogowski | Producer |