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Originally, it was about workplace discrimination in Hollywood but I thought to myself, who is going to want to see this movie outside of the people in Hollywood. And I was really worried about coming off as if I didn't know anything, that people would be saying, she doesn't even know where to stand or what to do. makes a muscular case for global warming as the defining, cross-sectional issue of our era. And you wouldnt know it because of how it turns out, four percent post his school. Good Deed Entertainment (Theatrical Premiere), Starz (Broadcast), VOD, TVOD. We can reflect the future now and it will make it happen. Thats the problem. She's best known for her starring roles in "Thelma & Louise," "A League Of Their Own," and "Beetlejuice." KIMBERLY PIERCE, DIRECTOR, CARRIE: I was being talked to and treated and questioned constantly and indifferently. This Changes Everything is a brilliant explanation of why the climate crisis challenges us to abandon the core free market ideology of our time, restructure the global economy, and remake our political systems. -Alice Walker, author and activist, Purposely unsettling Ultimately encouraging Harvey Weinstein, of course, comes to mind. Can we play that? What is the connection? And, you know, that's obviously an option that everybody can take. Maleeha Lodhi joins the program to explain tensions between Pakistan and India. It's about two women who grab ahold of their fate and refuse to relinquish control no matter how far it takes them, that they remain in charge of their destiny. And her actions led to an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission investigation into systemic discrimination against women directors in Hollywood. I could do that too. Bring me my tiny violin. It will be on air. I - my daughter was a toddler, and I decided she was old enough to start watching preschool shows. But I said, at some point, you got to get me into a showgirl costume because it's kind of a fantasy of mine to wear one of those things, you know, with a giant headdress and all that. Go behind the scenes of Netflix TV shows and movies, see what's coming soon and watch bonus videos on. She's receiving an honorary Oscar this year, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, at a special ceremony in October. GROSS: If you're just joining us, my guests are both featured in the new documentary "This Changes Everything" about discrimination against women in Hollywood. You can pick up a lot on a set. And for a very brief time, the nature of that change is still up to us. PBS is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. GROSS: Did you think of it as discrimination against older women? Variety: Geena Davis Talks This Changes Everything Doc and Conscious Gender Bias in Behind-the-Scenes Hiring, Good Deed Entertainment: This Changes Everything (2019) Exclusive Interview with Geena Davis & Director Tom Donahue, PBS SoCal: Interview with Geena Davis and Tom Donahue on This Changes Everything, Deadline: This Changes Everything Review: Compelling Documentary Tackles Hollywood Gender Inequality Head-On, The New York Times: This Changes Everything Review: Hollywoods Men, Called to Action. Slovene And her actions led to an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission investigation into systemic discrimination against women directors. Not rated. Tomatometer 18 Reviews. This is FRESH AIR. And Im like, yay, I cant wait. And she doesnt know its her period because she had never been taught that by her mother. This documentary on climate change and its causes focuses largely on stories of human connection to the land, some who try to control the land, while others who see humans as temporary stewards of the land to pass to future generations. So I sat down with her, and the very first show I turned on and watched with her, I pretty much immediately noticed something, and I thought, wait a minute - how many female characters are in this show? Were they getting work? Still. It was my first audition, and they had called model agencies to say, send any models who can act for an audition. You know, God forbid you complain about your salary not being equal or being harassed or mistreated or discriminated against because they'll just get somebody else, you know? The story goes full circle back to Alberta and what should or needs to be done to combat climate change while dealing with the economy and thus people's short term well-being. So I learned about being a feminist through the activism of a man. This Changes Everything (2015) Plot Showing all 3 items Jump to: Summaries (3) Summaries A look at seven communities around the world with the proposition that we can seize the crisis of climate change to transform our failed economic system into something radically better. Executive Producers: Geena Davis, Steve Edwards, Regina Scully, Simone Pero, Madeline Di Nonno, Jennie Peters, Patty Casby, Ku-Ling Yurman So its kind of working. And the ending's kind of similar, where, you know, they kind of ride off a cliff, and you drive off a cliff. What if confronting the climate crisis is the best chance we'll ever get to build a better world? And I thought, OK, well, I'll just become a model, and then they'll just offer me parts because obviously it's so much easier to become a supermodel (laughter). a scene from This Changes Everything, the documentary. MARTIN: In fact, there is a clip in the film where you talk about the fact that representation in actually entertainment can actually matter in the real world. DAVIS: It was very specific, actually. What happened was when I was in Thelma & Louise, after Thelma & Louise came out, a lot of the press was talking about, this is going to change everything. I'm Terry Gross. [Klein] writes of a decisive battle for the fate of the earth in which we either take back control of the planet from the capitalists who are destroying it or watch it all burn.. Like why do I care? I get to be a doctor. And if you're just joining us, my guest is actor Geena Davis and director Maria Giese. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: When I called to say we were going to greenlight it, the male executive on the other end of the line literally hung up on me. MORETZ: The biggest part of the movie is when she gets her period for the first time in the shower. Recorded by CBC Ideasafter the historic December 2015 Paris Climate meeting, in this lecture, Naomi analyzed the failures of that Agreement and discussed ways to move forward from it. Unlike many works about the climate crisis, this is not a film that tries to scare the audience into action: it aims to empower. MARTIN: And you do make a point of saying in the film that 75 percent of the crew are women. On a platform out at sea, they have formed The Community - a new type of society and a better way of living. MARTIN: Really? A look at seven communities around the world with the proposition that we can seize the crisis of climate change to transform our failed economic system into something radically better. The film brings Naomi Klein's radical, inspiring thesis to life through a connective thread of stories from people living and working on the front . You know, what we tend to do when we don't succeed is to blame ourselves, and women were so siloed off in this industry we really didn't have any means of communication. But were not hearing womens voices or seeing the stories told through the female gaze when there are so few female directors. And womens films do make more money and have, I think, over the last three years. GROSS: This is the equal opportunity law. Theres no one they can complain to. Romanian I was very upset and angry at that happening to me. GROSS: In "A League Of Their Own." Women are socialized to go along with the dominant patriarch. I think my peers and I were always operating under the assumption that you should never complain about anything. Audience Score 100+ Ratings. Im an optimist. The extraordinary detail and richness of the cinematography inThis Changes Everythingprovides an epic canvas for this exploration of the greatest challenge of our time. GROSS: A battle with yourself to not battle with yourself. . To have these conversations with men, youre saying like, well, I dont think you should depict it that way and I think you should depict it this way. DAVIS: Well, no, no. It was once there was a four in front of my age, and DAVIS: You know, I had heard about that for a long time, that people said that things change when you turn 40 or when you're in your 40s, but I didn't expect it to be literal. Naomi Kleins fourth book, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate was published in September 2014 and was an instant New York Times and international bestseller. DAVIS: Well, the bigger part was the (laughter) - that Sydney liked my audition. Some positive developments are shown in China and Germany specifically. [1] An examination of sexism in the Hollywood film industry, the film interviews a variety of actresses and women filmmakers on their experiences in the industry. This is the 21st century. GROSS: But you were with Sydney Pollack. In fact, all around the world, the fight for the next economy and against reckless extraction is already succeeding in ways both surprising and inspiring. Geena Davis is also an executive producer of the film. Chinese Complex And so I did. . As the actress and activist Geena Davis puts it in This Changes Everything, a new documentary about Hollywoods pervasive gender inequalities, each of those highly successful films with female leads (and in some cases, female filmmakers) had been expected to expand the opportunities for women, or so the media narrative went with each release. GROSS: And, you know, you're dressed in your underwear so it's even more, like, imposing and, for him, kind of embarrassing because he's a man who is finding it all very arousing, and he shouldn't be there because he's posing as a woman. And I think its because what I decided to do was I wanted the research so I could go directly to the creators and share it with them in a private and very friendly way because I knew they didnt know what they were doing. And when we looked at - when we first looked at TV shows, kids - the ratio of male to female characters on kids programs, specifically made for them, had the worst ratio of male to female characters. GROSS: My guests are actor Geena Davis and director Maria Giese. Russian And it hasnt changed in all that time. This Changes Everything is a 2018 American documentary film, directed by Tom Donahue. And they started to reach out to interview many, many women, as many women directors as they could. See production, box office & company info, Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It, White Hot: The Rise & Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch, Like a Rolling Stone: The Life & Times of Ben Fong-Torres, Late Night with Seth Meyers: Milo Ventimiglia/Geena Davis/Ex Hex/Julian Dorio. And I was counting on my hands as I held her in my lap, and it was horrifying, and I was absolutely stunned. And a little by little, I introduced them to a group of my female colleagues. Finnish LANDGRAF: And Im here to say its there. Script extract. But thats what we were worried about. But the biggest reaction of all was the press saying, like the title of the movie, this is going to change everything. And then after about a year and a half, they told me they were going to pursue it. Look at what FX did. Geena Davis is also an executive producer of the film. So they looked east to the banks to basically the patriarchal systems in the east and so they created the studio system in the west. AMANPOUR: Yes. AMANPOUR: Let me just give some of the statistics that you cite in the film. 56%. Danish Which is why none of them appeared in this film? Tweets by NaomiAKlein. . MARTIN: Geena Davis, Tom Donahue, thank you so much for talking to us. Research shows a connection between kids' healthy self-esteem and positive portrayals in media. A work of startling force, exhaustive reporting, and telling anecdote . Its an alarm that calls us to fix an economic system that is already failing us in many ways. So at 41, I took it up and then became absolutely obsessed, as I do with things. A group of disillusioned young women have disappeared. Published in 2014, it debuted at #5 on the New York Times list and at #1 in Canada. The women have guns. An investigative look and analysis of gender disparity in Hollywood, featuring accounts from well-known actors, executives and artists in the Industry.An investigative look and analysis of gender disparity in Hollywood, featuring accounts from well-known actors, executives and artists in the Industry.An investigative look and analysis of gender disparity in Hollywood, featuring accounts from well-known actors, executives and artists in the Industry. Director Tom Donahue Stars Reese Witherspoon Mira Nair I'm wondering what impact you think that might be having on the inclusion issue because we've seen how some men in Hollywood have misused their power to assault or harass women. So I learned through him about the equal rights amendment, about Gloria Steinem and Marlo Thomas and that girl and I became a fan of Mary Tyler Moore. DAVIS: Yes. And you try really hard to, like, throw him off of you. We were made to feel very dispensable. We also heard from director Maria Giese, who's also featured in the film "This Changes Everything." When did things start to slow down in your acting career? But the documentary "This Changes Everything" synthesizes all that data along with interviews from a truly mind-boggling array of A-listers both in front of and behind the camera to create a damning portrait of Hollywood's systematic sexism and discrimination. TAX ID# 86-1943473, Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, PO Box 9615, Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91701. Prior to the worldwide publication of This Changes Everything, Naomi filmed a one and a half minute book trailer that highlighted the main themes of the book. Oh, we forgot. So they send over a Victoria's Secret catalogue (laughter). You putting men in charge basically driving women and people of color out. And she demonstrates precisely why the market has notand cannotfix the climate crisis but will instead make things worse, with ever more extreme and ecologically damaging extraction methods, accompanied by rampant disaster capitalism. I want to ask you about "Thelma & Louise." Ukrainian. And so I learned at 36 that I actually was coordinated. Danish . All but one of the women were interviewed for this film, and Donahue takes his time to carefully lay out the details and takeaways of their efforts (which led the D.G.A. She exposes the ideological desperation of the climate-change deniers, the messianic delusions of the would-be geoengineers, and the tragic defeatism of too many mainstream green initiatives. TV-PG. All rights reserved. GROSS: Maria Giese, let me move on to you. (Interestingly, the film was directed by a man, Tom Donahue. Drawing on an impressive volume of research, Ms. Klein savages the idea that we will be saved by new technologies or by an incremental shift away from fossil fuels: Both approaches, she argues, are forms of denial . When you have 150 men on set and one woman, how is that woman protected? And - but nobody, and least of all him, nobody ever said, you realize you don't have to come every day? In 2004, she founded the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media to get the actual data comparing the number and types of male and female roles and to use that data to convince the industry of the need for change. 1 hr 30 min. DAVIS: I think I noticed it because Ive been in like A League of Their Own and I became very aware of how few inspirational female characters there are in regular adult fare. Is that why because no studio heads appeared in this film because theyre so embarrassed? This Changes Everything 2018 TV-PG 1 h 36 m IMDb RATING 7.7 /10 1.8K YOUR RATING Rate Play trailer 1:59 4 Videos 19 Photos Documentary An investigative look and analysis of gender disparity in Hollywood, featuring accounts from well-known actors, executives and artists in the Industry. I think theres some backlash. Whats your first name? Chinese Simple And that's when you really are tested with your mental abilities because once you have a really good shot, your job is to recreate it exactly and - every time. The main thing that's very different is now it's completely OK to talk about this stuff. In 2004, she founded the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media. And it was fantastic. The EEOC functions in total confidentiality. Kumi Naidoo,Former Director at Greenpeace International, Genuinely moving GROSS: So what did you learn being on set? Change or be changed, but make no mistake, this changes everything.. GROSS: So did being a model for Victoria's Secret lead to having this part where you're in your underwear in the dressing room? I very much expected that that would not be the case. . But as time went on and I became more empowered, I started really noticing. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I was very lucky because Greys Anatomy was developed under the network presence. Told first-hand by some of Hollywoods leading voices behind and in front of the camera, THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING is the award-winning 2019 feature-length documentary that uncovers what is beneath one of the most confounding dilemmas in the entertainment industry the underrepresentation and misrepresentation of women. This Changes Everything DOCUMENTARY Told first-hand by some of Hollywood's leading voices, This Changes Everything is a feature-length documentary that uncovers what is beneath what is one of the most confounding dilemmas in the entertainment industry- the under-representation and misrepresentation of women. GROSS: The one with the feathers and DAVIS: The one with the feathers and rhinestones? It's really fun and incredibly challenging. Turkish What happened after that? Film Review: 'This Changes Everything' Before the #MeToo movement began, director Tom Donahue began assembling a documentary about gender inequality in Hollywood. 2019 | Maturity Rating: TV-MA | 1h 35m | Documentary Films. Norwegian So it was so horrifying to me that we would be doing this to kids that I decided I had to try to do something. And it was just, you know, doing a video with a casting assistant. I felt its my duty as a feminist, male or otherwise. And I was horrified. And so it's just a battle with yourself the whole time. Finnish A star-studded documentary about gender inequality in film and TV is equal parts history lesson and constructive criticism. And that was an extraordinary triumph. Its the chivalry of the 21st century.. So I began to think, you know, this is maybe not just about me, and even if my own career is just about me, that doesn't answer for all the incredible, talented women everywhere that are not able to contribute their voices to our entertainment media storytelling. She's in Paris. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. DONAHUE: I started the film a year before I actually asked Geena to come on board. Documentary. You know, it was, like, an amazing introduction. If she can see it, she can be it. Terms Privacy Policy For Our Members Access, All rights reserved. Overview. Grieving the loss of a best friend she couldnt protect, an ex-bodyguard sets out to fulfill her dear friends last wish: sweet revenge. Now they were saying, oh, I have to tell you what I thought about this movie, and this is how many times I saw it. CHLOE GRACE MORETZ: When I was 15, I did Carrie. That movie was directed by Kim Pierce who was my first female director but it was a massively male crew. Buy now. And then Susan Sarandon comes out. Bulgarian Italian, Japanese 47%. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Feud is so, so good. This Changes Everything Official trailer Did we miss something on diversity? DONAHUE: Hopefully not. MARTIN: Talk to me about the Geena Davis Institute which you founded years ago. SANDRA OH: Shonda was able to make half of her cast not white. . Geena Davis and Tom Donahue on This Changes Everything, Maleeha Lodhi Discusses Tensions Between India and Pakistan, Michael Mann Explains Why We Need to Rethink Food Production, + Major support for Amanpour and Company is provided by the Anderson Family Charitable Fund, Sue and Edgar Wachenheim, III, Candace King Weir, Jim Attwood and Leslie Williams, Mark J. Blechner, Seton J. Melvin, Bernard and Denise Schwartz, Koo and Patricia Yuen, the Leila and Mickey Straus Family Charitable Trust, Barbara Hope Zuckerberg, Jeffrey Katz and Beth Rogers, the Filomen M. DAgostino Foundation and. DAVIS: Well, you know, we found that for every two speaking male characters, there's one female speaking character, and that there's an appalling amount of hypersexualization of female characters, even in G-rated movies, and the female characters are very often narrowly stereotyped, hypersexualized or not really integral to the plot. As the staggering statistics on gender parity continue to demonstrate, though, not much has changed. GROSS: What did you like about archery? Geena Davis and Tom Donahue sit down with Hari Sreenivasan to discuss their new film This Changes Everything, which tackles the need for more female representation in media. Copy may not be in its final form. Once it finally begins to focus on the mission, however, This Changes Everything not only becomes engrossing but reveals itself as a crucial cri de coeur. Heart and mind go hand in hand in this magisterial response to a present crisis., We lack the collective spaces in which to confront the raw terror of ecocide, is how Klein encapsulates the problem. Well, Tom, talk a little about what the problem is if you would. And that's what I set my mind to do. MARTIN: So the title of the film, we start with that, This Changes Everything. This is something that you say in the film. An office worker who is insecure about her looks becomes a masked internet personality by night until a chain of ill-fated events overtakes her life. And for me, the word feminist was a bad word in my house. They're both featured in the new documentary "This Changes Everything," about the campaign for more representation of women in front of and behind the camera in movies and TV. And but I just assumed kids media would be gender-balanced, and wholesome, and good for you, and all that. So I decided I wanted to take up a sport in the real-life way and not the movie version. French GROSS: So what was your strategy to try to open the door to more women directors? I was a feminist since I was 10-years-old because I came from a very right-wing family. CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR: Now, whether in politics or science or any other field, one thing is for sure, we need more women now. And I started to do research. Davis and director Maria Giese discuss the dramatic. [2] Did you think of it as there not being enough roles for women in their 40s? You had a small role. What are we doing? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There is nothing funny here. So I never thought about it again. Anyone can read what you share. Bulgarian With - the other thing that I loved about it was that it's measured by points. So when I got back from Cannes, I was represented at William Morris Agency, and basically nothing happened. So I did. Also with us is director Maria Giese, who's featured in the film, too. I felt very unhappy with having that sort of imposed on me by other people. GROSS: There's Dustin Hoffman, who plays this man who can't get roles, finally auditions for a role posing as a woman in a soap opera. So what impact do you think it had both on audiences but also on Hollywood? Channeling the hurried nature of a TV docuseries edited to cover an extremely broad topic in a limited amount of time, the first act layers a lot of too-brief sound bites albeit from an impressive array of influential women, including Reese Witherspoon and Shonda Rhimes over movie clips emphasizing the prevalence of machismo and misogyny (The Godfather, for example) to almost dizzying effect. By Joel Horwood. MARTIN: Every person that Ive spoken with who have seen the film is just shocked by it. The two opposing viewpoints can be seen in two western society examples, the first concerning the Alberta oil sands, and the second fossil fuel energy production and transportation in what is traditional Montana farmland. LA Times. GROSS: And doesn't know where to put his eyes. DONAHUE: They tend to deny the problem after seeing the film. And that in turn should give us hope, because it means the fight for a just world is the same as the fight for a livable one., This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate is a book of such ambition and consequence that it is almost unreviewable . There's no question about it. The coming of sound meant they needed big capital investment. This Changes Everything Review: Hollywoods Men, Called to Action, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/08/movies/this-changes-everything-review.html. Was it a centering thing for you - focus? NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. German The documentary This Changes Everything gives audiences a look at how the tropes of "the girlfriend," the "useless chick," and the beauty who needs to "be saved" are still alive and well. The economic drivers of the carbon society are highlighted by the economic crisis in Greece in the early 2000s, where some saw the only solution to get out of the crisis being to sell off the land to the highest bidder, those highest bidders often being resource extraction companies. How did you take up archery? Russian Several women serve as executive producers, including Davis.). Against the backdrop of Greece in crisis, a powerful social movement rises. It sets the most important crisis in human history in the context of our other ongoing traumas, reminding us just how much the powers-that-be depend on the power of coal, gas and oil. Didnt seem to happen. Kleinexposes the myths that are clouding the climate debate. . He's just decided that that's what he's going to do. Accuracy and availability may vary. Its not going to benefit you. For more details, visit the official This Changes Everything website, where youll find more Press information and Endnotes. It's a lonely sport because you're out there for hours every day shooting by yourself. Romanian You know, the "Teletubbies" are gender-balanced; I don't know if you can tell. Interwoven with these stories of struggle is Naomi Klein's narration, connecting the carbon in the air with the economic system that put it there. You know, I mean, both are kind of unattainable. Bosnian Profoundly, embarrassing few. DAVIS: Oh, so - gosh. Swedish It takes a bit of time for the documentary to find its groove. From left, Joelle Dobrow, Nell Cox, Susan Nimoy, Dolores Ferraro, Lynne Littman and Victoria Hochberg in 1980. I'm Terry Gross, and this is FRESH AIR. DONAHUE: They cant really complain to their agent or their manager because theyre just going to tell them just go with it, just be quiet. GROSS: Geena Davis is featured in and is an executive producer of the new documentary "This Changes Everything," about the campaign for better representation of women in front of and behind the camera in movies and TV. Transcript A new documentary explores how women in Hollywood are pushing for more representation in front of and behind the camera. MARTIN: But Geena, this has to have happened to you throughout your career? - three years and seven months going. MARTIN: And they just cant believe that it is what it is. The books exploration of climate change from the perspective of how capitalism functions produces fresh insights and its examination of the interconnectedness between our relationship with nature and the creation of better, fairer societies presents a radical proposal. MARTIN: Why do you think that was the click moment for you? Croatian And so it kind of made sense in that way. GROSS: Prevent that kind of behavior. And I had spent so much time in a field where you're measured by people's judgment, you know, where, you know, you're approved of by others' opinions rather than factual merit. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I think they just dont like me. Ukrainian, Arabic I mean dont you just want to throw your shoes at the screen? DAVIS: Oh, no. Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media is not a production company or talent agency.The organization does not solicit or accept autograph requests, manuscripts, project ideas, or other similar materials.If any such information is sent to us, we will return the material unread. Watch all you want. I wasnt thinking, this is so unfair. For the record: 11:23 a.m. Aug. 8, 2019 An earlier version of this review included a photo from the 2015 climate-change documentary "This Changes Everything." Also in the review, the memory of . Her cast not white actually asked Geena to come on board appeared in this film because theyre so embarrassed that... 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