Dawn Logsdon

Lucie Faulkner

Elizabeth Finlayson

 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 serve 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.

. A 54-minute version will soon be released, please 

 if you are interested in the shorter length. Closed Captions and Spanish Subtitle options are available. (

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 serve 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.

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Dawn Logsdon is available to make any screening of “Free For All” an engaging event.  Committed to reaching audiences directly to have impact with her films, Dawn has been dedicated to making films about civic issues and city life, particularly at the neighborhood level. She directed and produced “Faubourg Treme: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans” (2008), which premiered nationally at the Tribeca International Film Festival. It won the SFIFF Golden Gate Award for Best Documentary and was a PBS Black History Month feature presentation three years in a row. Dawn co-directed and edited “Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton” (2013) and “Lindy Boggs: Steel and Velvet” (2008). She edited Sundance Award-winning “Paragraph 175” by Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Freidman, Academy Award-nominated “Weather Underground” by Sam Green, Emmy award-winning “Have You Heard from Johannesburg?” by Connie Field, and Peabody award-winning “The Castro by Peter Stein.

Free For All: The Public Library