About the Film
“The Librarians” offers a rattling look at coordinated efforts to ban books. More importantly, it introduces viewers to the everyday and increasingly vital heroes pushing back: the librarians who sound the alarm to both legislative and grassroots attempts to pull books from school and public libraries.
In Texas, the Krause List targets 850 books focused on race and LGBTQIA+ stories – triggering sweeping book bans across the U.S. at an unprecedented rate. As tensions escalate, librarians connect the dots from heated school and library board meetings nationwide to lay bare the underpinnings of White Christian Nationalism fueling the censorship efforts. Despite facing harassment, threats, and laws aimed at criminalizing their work – the librarians’ rallying cry for freedom to read is a chilling cautionary tale.
2025 Sundance Film Festival premiere
Post-film panel with Rebekah Cummings, Digital Matters Director at the University of Utah, former Utah Library Association President and co-founder of Let Utah Read, Heidi Matthews, Library Media Teacher/Librarian, Park City School District and Past President of the Utah Education Association, and Tom Ford, staff attorney, ACLU-Utah. Leslie Thatcher, Host of KPCW’s Local News Hour, will moderate.
Presented as part of the Reel Community Series in partnership with Summit County Library, with grant support from The Friends of the Summit County Library.
Film Info
Dates
Nov 19, 2025Showtimes
7pmRated
Not RatedRun Time
92 minDirected by
Kim Snyder
Assisted Listening
Price
FREEUnderwritten By
