Documentary - "Free for All: Inside the Public Library"

Free for All: Inside the Public Library, a new documentary that focuses on the value of public libraries in daily American life, will be screened at 7 p.m., Thursday, March 20, at the East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon, Metairie.

This event is free of charge and open to the public. Registration is not required. This event is held in partnership with WYES-TV, the local Public Broadcasting Station for New Orleans.

Free for All: Inside the Public Library tells the story of the quiet revolutionaries who made a simple idea happen. From the pioneering women behind the “Free Library Movement” to today’s librarians who service the public despite working in a contentious age of closures and book bans, meet those who created a civic institution where everything is free and the doors are open to all.

The documentary was produced by Dawn Logsdon and Lucie Faulknor. Logsdon produced, directed and edited Faubourg Treme: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans, and co-directed Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton. He editing credits include Jacques Pepin: The art of Craft, The Weather Underground, Paragraph 175, The Castro, The Vanishing Line, and Have You Heard from Johannesburg among others.

Lucie Faulknor is an arts management and documentary film professional. Founder at Serendipity Films, she produced the award-winning documentary Faubourg Treme: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans. Faulknor has worked with SF/JAZZ, City Arts & Lectures, Dublin Fringe Festival, and more.

For more information regarding this presentation, contact Chris Smith, Manager of Adult Programming for the library, at 504-889-8143 or wcsmith@jefferson.lib.la.us.