LA Voice: “The Sundance Film Festival kicked off last Thursday in Park City, Utah, and will run through Sunday.
Why is this of interest to LouisianaVoice?
Well because this year there is a documentary that features Livingston Parish school librarian Amanda Jones and her ongoing fight with those who would censor reading material available from public libraries.
Those who would swoop into a community like the Lafayette organization that calls itself Citizens for a New Louisiana are not locals but they are insisting on dictating that you can read. Of course, they don’t call it censorship. But neither did they in Texas where a state representative has submitted a list of more than 800 books he wants banned.
But back to Sundance.
Sarah Jessica Parker is the executive producer of a documentary premiered at Sundance that examines efforts to censor libraries – not just in Livingston Parish, but in other areas as well.”