Sarah Jessica Parker on Producing Sundance Doc About Librarians Fighting Book Bans: ‘They Have Put Their Lives at Risk’

variety.com:

Martin Dale Contributor 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 feature documentary follows a group of librarians, dubbed FReadom Fighters, who have resisted book bans in Texas, Florida and beyond.

It is produced by Snyder, Jana Edelbaum and Janique Robillard, and exec produced by Parker, Pretty Matches co-founder Alison Benson and Maria Cuomo Cole. “It’s about the librarians across our country who’ve been fighting against these book bans,” Parker explains to Variety at the Red Sea Film Festival. “They have been standing up to the ideology that prevents children from having access to certain books and they have put their own lives and their family’s lives at risk, but they have not backed down.” Parker’s commitment to the world of books and reading began as a child, and she says that her love of books is one of the key traits that she shares with her most famous on-screen character, “Sex and the City’s” Carrie Bradshaw.

That passion inspired Parker to start a book club and her own publishing company. It also recently led to her recent appointment to the judges panel of the prestigious U.K.