The Librarians (2025)
Necessario e inquietante, The Librarians offre un ritratto nitido della nuova censura libraria negli Stati Uniti, esplosa nel 2021 dopo che un legislatore texano ha diffuso una lista di 850 libri bollati come “osceni” – perlopiù opere a tema LGBTQAI+ o con contenuti legati alla questione razziale – scatenando divieti su larga scala. Kim A. Snyder, attraverso materiali d’archivio e riprese in stile cinéma vérité, documenta gli scontri tra, da un lato, bibliotecari, studenti e attivisti, e dall'altro consigli scolastici conservatori, rappresentanti del White Christian Nationalism, motore ideologico della censura, e le mamme del movimento Moms for Liberty. Nonostante questi conflitti abbiano portato a licenziamenti e violazioni di diritti, i bibliotecari continuano ad affrontare il clima censorio.
Direttore: Kim A. Snyder
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Suzette Baker as Self |
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Becky Calzada as Self |
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Carolyn Foote as Self |
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Martha Hickson as Self |
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Amanda Jones as Self |
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Marie Masferrer as Self |
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Julie Miller as Self |
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Weston Brown as Self |
| Directing | Kim A. Snyder | Director |
| Production | Maria Cuomo Cole | Producer |
| Production | Jana Edelbaum | Producer |
| Production | Kim A. Snyder | Producer |
| Production | Janique L. Robillard | Producer |
| Production | Geralyn White Dreyfous | Executive Producer |
| Production | Regina K. Scully | Executive Producer |
| Production | Marni E.J. Grossman | Executive Producer |
| Editing | Austin Reedy | Editor |
| Production | Carrie Lozano | Executive Producer |
| Production | Lois Vossen | Executive Producer |
| Editing | Leah Boatright | Editor |
| Production | Ruth Ann Harnisch | Executive Producer |
| Production | Sarah Jessica Parker | Executive Producer |
| Editing | María Gabriela Torres | Editor |
| Production | Hallee Adelman | Executive Producer |
| Production | Chris Stolte | Executive Producer |
| Production | Heidi Stolte | Executive Producer |
| Production | Tegan Acton | Executive Producer |
| Production | Emma Pompetti | Executive Producer |
| Production | Kate Garwood | Executive Producer |
| Production | Adam Lewis | Executive Producer |
| Production | Melony Lewis | Executive Producer |
| Production | Jamie Wolf | Co-Executive Producer |
| Production | Nathalie Seaver | Co-Executive Producer |
| Production | Amber Alonso | Executive Producer |
| Production | Alison Benson | Executive Producer |
| Production | Rachel Cohen | Executive Producer |
| Production | Thomas Campbell Jackson | Executive Producer |
| Production | Penny B. Jackson | Executive Producer |
| Production | Claire Demere | Co-Executive Producer |
| Production | Christian Camargo | Executive Producer |
| Production | Beesham A. Seecharan | Co-Executive Producer |
| Production | Cynthia Kane | Co-Producer |
| Crew | Amy Bench | Cinematography |
| Crew | Derek Wiesehahn | Cinematography |
| Crew | Paulius Knotijevas | Cinematography |
| Editing | Mark Becker | Supervising Editor |
| Production | Colleen deVeer | Executive Producer |
| Production | Peter Resnick | Executive Producer |
| Production | Misan Sagay | Executive Producer |
| Production | Deepen Shah | Co-Executive Producer |
| Production | Taylor Vila | Co-Executive Producer |
| Production | Janna Devinsky | Associate Producer |
| Production | Gaby Edwards | Associate Producer |
| Sound | Nico Muhly | Original Music Composer |
| Writing | X González | Writer |
| Writing | Leo Munoz | Writer |
| Writing | Jack Youngelson | Writer |