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Pras Michel’s Sweet Micky For President To Play At Los Angeles Film Festival<\/strong>Posted by Wilson Morales<\/p>\n

June 9, 2015<\/p>\n

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Playing this week at the 2015 Los Angeles Film Festival is Pras Michel’s Sweet Micky For President<\/strong>, which won the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the 2015 Slamdance Film Festival.<\/p>\n

SWEET MICKY FOR PRESIDENT<\/strong> follows Pras Michel, the founder of the hip-hop group The Fugees, as he returns to his homeland of Haiti after the 2010 earthquake and finds a corrupt government in paralysis. With no experience or money, Pras mobilizes a presidential campaign for the unlikeliest of candidates: Michel Martelly aka Sweet Micky, Haiti\u2019s most popular and most controversial pop star. The politically inexperienced pair set out against a corrupted government, civil unrest, and a fixed election. When Pras\u2019s former bandmate \u2014superstar Wyclef Jean \u2014 also enters the presidential race, their chances seem further doomed. But despite the odds, they never give up on their honest dream of changing the course of Haiti\u2019s future forever.<\/p>\n

Directed by Ben Patterson and produced by Pras Michel, Karyn Rachtman and Ben Patterson, the film will screen on Thursday, June 11 at 8:30 PM.<\/p>\n