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Sarah Jessica Parker on Producing Sundance Doc About Librarians Fighting Book Bans: ‘They Have Put Their Lives at Risk’
The documentary, directed by multi-award-winning filmmaker Kim A. Snyder, will screen in Sundance's Premieres lineup.
Through her shingle Pretty Matches Productions, Sarah Jessica Parker is executive producing Kim A. Snyder’s “The Librarians,” one of 91 films in Sundance’s 2025 Premieres lineup. The documentary feature follows the work of the FReadom Fighters movement, founded in October 2021 by Texas school librarians Becky Calzada, Carolyn Foote and Nancy Jo Lambert, after Texas lawmaker Rep. Matt Krause targeted 850 books to be removed from the state’s libraries, leading to bans on books such as “Catcher in the Rye” and “To Kill a Mockingbird.” As the book-banning momentum expanded nationwide, so did the FReadom Fighters ranks, who organized meetings and created a Twitter/X account with 6,000 followers that published over 13,000 tweets about how books can change lives.
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