Will this film change everything? Production companies: CreativeChaos vmg, New Plot Films, US Release 2019. Your AMC Ticket Confirmation# can be found in your order confirmation email. Finnish It's a lonely sport because you're out there for hours every day shooting by yourself. 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. Im sure they knew that they were making fewer films with a female lead but they didnt they werent aware that the population of the films were profoundly imbalanced, even the extras. Maleeha Lodhi joins the program to explain tensions between Pakistan and India. 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 your role is as the entertainment director of a casino. Bosnian Or did you think, oh, it's me - no one wants me anymore? 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. GROSS: But you were with Sydney Pollack. Thats the problem. . And very quickly, the coaches were saying, you know, you have a lot of untapped athletic ability. Tomatometer 18 Reviews. And this guy on the show named Alan Alda, who I was learning everything about. Tweets by NaomiAKlein. 'This Changes Everything' Review: Compelling Documentary Tackles Hollywood Gender Inequality Head-On By Pete Hammond July 18, 2019 4:17pm At one point in the powerful and fascinating new. Transcript A new documentary explores how women in Hollywood are pushing for more representation in front of and behind the camera. So I think that's a big change that's happened. . GROSS: Prevent that kind of behavior. But this struck me very deeply that we're training kids from the beginning, from minute one of absorbing popular culture, that women and girls are not as important as men and boys, and they're not as valuable to our society as men and boys. Climate change isnt just another issue to be neatly filed between taxes and health care. Polish But when she got older and roles started to dry up, she realized how unempowered women were in Hollywood. Russian It really started for me at the end of 2014 with the Sony hack and finding out about the disparity in pay between Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper in American Hustle. GROSS: My guests are actor Geena Davis and director Maria Giese. It often seems that these worlds are completely . Progress will happen when men take a stand, an emphatic Meryl Streep says. The numbers have obviously not improved for decades. Absolutely not. Yet we can seize this existential crisis to transform our failed economic system into something radically better. Spanish And I also expected it to be not true anymore by the time I would get to that age. GROSS: This is the equal opportunity law. Croatian I think my peers and I were always operating under the assumption that you should never complain about anything. GROSS: Geena Davis, let me bring you back into the conversation. MARTIN: But Geena, this has to have happened to you throughout your career? Slovene There are going to be so many more movies with women starring and everything. MARTIN: Have you felt your career jeopardized by your unspokeness about this? So why does the behind the camera representation matter so much? DONAHUE: Its funny. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I was very lucky because Greys Anatomy was developed under the network presence. And then on screen really is impactful, because as much as it can create a negative impact, it has the power to create incredibly positive changes like were talking in the movie about the CSI effect where there were so many shows so many female forensic scientists on T.V. And so thats what I did and, in fact, its proven that theyre incredibly grateful and horrified and embarrassed. . Swedish What were you looking for and what did you come away with? Being so tall, I just didn't want anybody to look at me, especially if I was going to be failing at a sport. 1 hr 30 min. By Joel Horwood. Because the next movie somebody makes could be gender-balanced. If she can see it, she can be it. Terms Privacy Policy For Our Members Access, All rights reserved. GROSS: A battle with yourself to not battle with yourself. Can we play that? I knew I wanted to be in movies, as opposed to theater. And so it was something they had no idea they were doing, and the data changed everything for them. . Catalan This Changes Everything Official trailer Did we miss something on diversity? Dutch Portuguese DAVIS: Well, I was astounded that it happened. And she's been dedicated to equality for women, more roles for women in Hollywood. . Synopsis Based on Naomi Klein's book This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate, a look at how people in various communities around the world play a role in the ongoing climate change debate and how they're affecting change in trying to prevent the environmental destruction of our planet. And so that was really fun. The feature documentary, This Changes Everything, narrated by Naomi and directed by Avi Lewis, premiered at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival, presented by Oscar Winning Director Alfonso Cuarn, and executive producers Seth Macfarlane, Shepard Fairey, and Danny Glover. DAVIS: Well, thats what I was saying about earlier, it is a different time now that you actually can talk about these things and not suffer repercussions. And then the second thing were unions. I mean dont you just want to throw your shoes at the screen? But so I think that will change and I think it will impact society, that life will imitate art. 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. GROSS: This is FRESH AIR. She is an executive producer of and is featured in the new documentary "This Changes Everything," about how women in Hollywood are pushing for more representation in front of and behind the camera. Female. DAVIS: Oh, no. And I think the first thing to change will be on screen. I thought, this is incredibly unfair, and I don't want other people deciding that I have to work less, you know, and taking away opportunities. So I learned about being a feminist through the activism of a man. I want to ask you about "Thelma & Louise." What are we doing? Chinese Complex This is the 21st century. The New York Times Book Review called it The most momentous and contentious environmental book since Silent Spring.. 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. MARTIN: Really? DAVIS: Right. A work of startling force, exhaustive reporting, and telling anecdote . Youll get much less salary because you guys dont really matter and well replace you if you have any complaints. Kleinexposes the myths that are clouding the climate debate. GROSS: But you're in your underwear. The authoritative record of NPRs programming is the audio record. Here it is. . They founded the Directors Guild of Americas Womens Steering Committee in 1979. This Changes Everything. Hilary Weston Writers Trust Prize for Nonfiction. I'm Terry Gross. Chinese Simple 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. An investigative look and analysis of gender disparity in Hollywood, featuring accounts from well-known actors, executives and artists in the Industry. Also with us is director Maria Giese, who's featured in the film, too. It will be on air. Dutch Which is why none of them appeared in this film? There's no question about it. TAX ID# 86-1943473, Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, PO Box 9615, Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91701. They're both featured in the new documentary "This Changes Everything" about discrimination against women in front of and behind the camera in Hollywood. GIESE: Well, I understood very quickly that the numbers in and of themselves inferred violations of Title VII. So and it wasnt really until after Me Too and all that happened that we all realized, this is different now. namely, a modicum of hope for the future Promotional materials, trailers & welcome video. DAVIS: It did well. Turkish JOIN NOW. By what name was This Changes Everything (2015) officially released in India in English? Can we pull off these changes in time? He's just decided that that's what he's going to do. 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. GIESE: So in - five months after they received that letter from the ACLU, they began their investigation. As an asteroid hurtles towards Earth with nothing to stop it, one determined teacher fights to keep her former students safe no matter the cost. DONAHUE: Well, because they even if its unconscious, theyre still embarrassed and I think their legal departments also said, dont go on the record about this. Klein argues that the changes to our relationship with nature and one another that are required to respond to the climate crisis humanely should not be viewed as grim penance, but rather as a kind of gifta catalyst to transform broken economic and cultural priorities and to heal long-festering historical wounds. She had to fight really hard to get them to put it on the air. I felt very unhappy with having that sort of imposed on me by other people. Well, get her back. DONAHUE: But also, Reese Witherspoon says in the film that sometimes she would go on set and it would be 115 men and she would be the only woman. 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. And I learned that he was he called himself a feminist. You used to make a movie a year. My guest Geena Davis starred in two movies about female empowerment - "Thelma & Louise" and "A League Of Their Own." Book & Film Study Guide. MORETZ: The biggest part of the movie is when she gets her period for the first time in the shower. And so I never asked any questions, and I didn't know that you didn't have to come every day. OK. Let me just play a clip from him in the film. Well, do they have any photos of her in a bathing suit? She's got a handgun, pulls it on him, asks him to apologize. . The extraordinary detail and richness of the cinematography inThis Changes Everythingprovides an epic canvas for this exploration of the greatest challenge of our time. And that action alone sent the numbers skyrocketing from 0.5% to 16% in just 10 years from 1985 to 1995. Polish DAVIS: Well, it was completely random in some ways. Filmed over 211 shoot days in nine countries and five continents over four years,This Changes Everythingis an epic attempt to re-imagine the vast challenge of climate change. . Which really isn't very old. Its not about carbonits about capitalism. GROSS: It's like, he's short; you're really tall. And they started to reach out to interview many, many women, as many women directors as they could. This was my plan (laughter). Russian French 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. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Feud is so, so good. Ukrainian. Danish Ukrainian, Arabic And, you know, that's obviously an option that everybody can take. So I decided I wanted to take up a sport in the real-life way and not the movie version. And my friend and I acted out your trip. Written with an elegant blend of science, statistics, field reports and personal insight, it does not paralyze but buoys the reader. Lithuanian [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. Davis and director Maria Giese discuss the dramatic disparities on screen. GROSS: So what was your strategy to try to open the door to more women directors? DONAHUE: Sure. Chinese Complex A determined detective continues his search for the truth behind Asia's largest drug organization and its elusive boss he has unfinished business with. Executive Producers: Geena Davis, Steve Edwards, Regina Scully, Simone Pero, Madeline Di Nonno, Jennie Peters, Patty Casby, Ku-Ling Yurman Grieving the loss of a best friend she couldnt protect, an ex-bodyguard sets out to fulfill her dear friends last wish: sweet revenge. 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. SCREENING GUIDES. They respond by organizing against fossil fuel extraction in their beloved Powder River Basin, and forming a new alliance with the Northern Cheyenne tribe to bring solar power to the nearby reservation. Co-Producers: Jessicya Materano, Robin Kelleher DONAHUE: There hasnt been a lot of change. German She's best known for her starring roles in "Thelma & Louise," "A League Of Their Own," and "Beetlejuice." What happened after that? DAVIS: They do. DAVIS: Well, no, no. Even though Landgraf and several prominent men are interviewed, a title card notes that the studio heads the filmmakers reached out to declined to appear in the film. Did you think of it as there not being enough roles for women in their 40s? 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. But I loved it. No one movie can persuade an industry to suddenly reverse decades of discrimination and redistribute power to include the less powerful. Danish It was my first audition, and they had called model agencies to say, send any models who can act for an audition. And the ending's kind of similar, where, you know, they kind of ride off a cliff, and you drive off a cliff. Mike and Alexis, a Montana goat ranching couple who see their dreams coated in oil from a broken pipeline. 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. Can you talk about that? And then I was watching the Olympics in Atlanta on TV and saw the archery competing, and I thought, wow, that is so beautiful and dramatic. 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. And womens films do make more money and have, I think, over the last three years. And it was fantastic. And I was sure they must be right and waiting for this fabulous future that was coming. . - because it was a big hit. 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. ("This Changes Everything" features interviews with Callie Khouri, Kimberly Peirce, Sharon Stone, Amber Tamblyn, Rose McGowen, Amandla Stenberg, Chloe Grace Moretz, Taraji P. Henson, Natalie. German Theyll just get somebody else. 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 . Klein and those impassioned protesters provide something that has been in short supply in the predecessors I could do that too. LANDGRAF: And Im here to say its there. Croatian DAVIS: First of all, for the simple fact of fairness, that women deserve to be in half of the positions, you know, and have leadership roles and also be the grip and be on the crew and, you know, use their [13:45:00] talents. He said no, that's the whole point is competing. And so obviously you only come when you're shooting, but I came every day at the beginning of the day (laughter) and grabbed my chair and put it next to Sydney and sat next to him all day, every day, making the movie. ', A work of startling force, exhaustive reporting, and telling anecdote . The feature documentary, This Changes Everything, narrated by Naomi and directed by Avi Lewis,premiered at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival, presented by Oscar Winning Director Alfonso Cuarn, and executive producers Seth Macfarlane, Shepard Fairey, and Danny Glover. You were signed to a big agency. Klein meticulously builds the case for how massively reducing our greenhouse emissions is our best chance to simultaneously reduce gaping inequalities, re-imagine our broken democracies, and rebuild our gutted local economies. And this is according to the Center for the Study of Women and Television and Film in San Diego State University. So I never tried anything. She's receiving an honorary Oscar this year, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, at a special ceremony in October. Japanese But what I did, also as Geena, was start looking at the numbers, and I started to notice that only 4% of studio features were directed by women, and only 13% of episodic TV shows were directed by women. GIESE: I first went to the EEOC in 2013. I was a feminist since I was 10-years-old because I came from a very right-wing family. By what name was This Changes Everything (2018) officially released in India in English? And it was just, you know, doing a video with a casting assistant. I get to have opinions, I get to be smart. But how can you change the world if you've taken yourself out of it? We also heard from director Maria Giese, who's also featured in the film "This Changes Everything." When, for instance, in 2017 I think, female-led films made 38 percent more money at the Box Office than male-led films. . Not rated. Michel Martin sits down with Oscar-winning actress Geena Davis and director Tom Donahue to discuss their new film This Changes Everything, which tackles the need for more female representation in media. DAVIS: Well, I definitely see a big shift happening in Hollywood in the past couple of years since #MeToo and Time's Up. You know, some shows are researched and all that and certainly harmless. Turkish 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. 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. Most fascinating is an examination of the six women who in 1979 founded the Directors Guild of Americas Womens Steering Committee, which sought to investigate the hiring practices of studios. Copyright 2019 NPR. Im an optimist. . So I knew that we could invoke that law to be able to change things in a very significant way. What if confronting the climate crisis is the best chance well ever get to build a better world? MARTIN: I think it was Maya Angelou who said you cant be what you cant see. For the first thing I showed her, there were profoundly more male characters than female, and it was aimed at two-year- olds. For more details, visit the official This Changes Everything website, where youll find more Press information and Endnotes. DONAHUE: I started the film a year before I actually asked Geena to come on board. But it was television that showed me there it was another way, and it was a show called MASH. This Changes Everything Review: Hollywoods Men, Called to Action, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/08/movies/this-changes-everything-review.html. The Geena Davis Institute is a nonprofit organization exempt from federal income tax under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. MARTIN: You make the connection in the film that its not just about, you know, the job, its the conditions at the job, that it is directly connected to these vicious examples of sexual harassment and abuse that women have experienced that have now come to the fore. DONAHUE: Well, two things. Watch all you want. DONAHUE: Sure. Yeah. MARTIN: Do you think its because your initial focus was on kids television? It looks like we don't have any synopsis for this title yet. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. And it's a buddy movie. And it also struck a nerve that none of us expected. Film Review: 'This Changes Everything' Before the #MeToo movement began, director Tom Donahue began assembling a documentary about gender inequality in Hollywood. Now, with Director Donahue, shes taking her message to the masses with the film, This Changes Everything which they have been discussing with our Michel Martin. Global Release 2020, 2023 Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media. What have they each done? Well, it meant a little ironically. Oh, we forgot. Were they getting work? Anyone can read what you share. And so I did. GEENA DAVIS: Well, it was pretty dramatic. And I got the part. Lucky for everybody then that opening up such spaces is exactly what Klein does best., This is the best book about climate change in a very long timein large part because its about much more. [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.. And she documents the inspiring movements that have already begun this process: communities that are not just refusing to be sites of further fossil fuel extraction but are building the next, regeneration-based economies right now. MARTIN: Well, you do interview one executive, the head of FX, John Landgraf. But as time went on and I became more empowered, I started really noticing. And but I just assumed kids media would be gender-balanced, and wholesome, and good for you, and all that. So I gathered all my articles and all the work that I had done, and I had even written the beginnings of a legal brief, and I brought it to the ACLU, where I met Melissa Goodman and Ariela Migdal. MARTIN: So Geena, how do you stay in it though? makes a muscular case for global warming as the defining, cross-sectional issue of our era. And he just does it. DONAHUE: Hopefully not. You know, it was, like, an amazing introduction. Swedish 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. This Changes Everything. Romanian For the rest of us, This Changes Everything will frustrate, enrage and maybe even inspire. You know, they just determined to do it, and they're very creative and they make it happen. We dont have to wait for things to turn around in real life. So I had a lot of training. 2019 | Maturity Rating: 13+ | 1h 35m | Documentary Films. This is FRESH AIR. This Changes Everything takes an incisive look into the male-dominated film industry to examine those forces - both conscious and unconscious - that continue to foster the systemic underrepresentation and misrepresentation of women. I decided that I would try becoming a model first because, at that time, Christie Brinkley and Lauren Hutton were being offered parts in movies. That so it was already a conversation that started to happen when I start developing the film with my producing partner. Provocative, compelling, and accessible to even the most climate-fatigued viewers,This Changes Everythingwill leave you refreshed and inspired, reflecting on the ties between us, the kind of lives we really want, and why the climate crisis is at the centre of it all. This documentary takes a deep look at gender disparity in Hollywood through the eyes of well-known actresses and female filmmakers. And Kim and I are sitting there going like, well, respectfully, I dont think you know what youre talking about. 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