And I was counting on my hands as I held her in my lap, and it was horrifying, and I was absolutely stunned. Bulgarian They could say, what was I doing? Climate change isnt just another issue to be neatly filed between taxes and health care. 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. Oh, we forgot. In 2018, 92 percent of the directors of the top 250 domestic releases were men. Of the top 100 grossing films of 2017, male-lead characters received twice as much screen time as female leads. 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. 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 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. The EEOC functions in total confidentiality. He refuses. When you have 150 men on set and one woman, how is that woman protected? MARTIN: To that point, heres a scene from the film which speaks with that with Kimberly Pierce, the director, and Chloe Grace Moretz. I'm talking about family-rated films. Portuguese I did get work, and it was through my model agency that I got my first acting job. PBS is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. GROSS: So what did you learn being on set? 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. And I just want an excuse to be able to do that (laughter). GIESE: You know, I did a lot of script writing and doctoring and - but no, no primetime TV shows, even though I observed for hundreds of hours on major TV shows like Dick Wolf's "Law & Order.". And I think most people and certainly I did assume that kids entertainments are harmless, that they're - they might even be good for kids. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I think they just dont like me. You used to make a movie a year. 56%. 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. Harvey Weinstein, of course, comes to mind. [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. JOIN NOW. And I couldn't get the numbers on women in commercials, which is the most lucrative category of directing, but I spoke to some big executives in the commercial world who told me that the number was less than 1%. I went down to the downtown LA courthouse, and I found that six very courageous women in the Directors Guild in 1979 had got the DGA, our union, to file a class action lawsuit against several major studios. MARTIN: Have you felt your career jeopardized by your unspokeness about this? But I loved it. I get to be a doctor. Naomi Kleins This Changes Everything is a ground-breaking work on how climate change changes everything. Unlike many works about the climate crisis, this is not a film that tries to scare the audience into action: it aims to empower. 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. I mean you know. Not rated. . MARTIN: So Geena, how do you stay in it though? Author interview. But the biggest reaction of all was the press saying, like the title of the movie, this is going to change everything. And two and a half years later, I was a semifinalist for the Olympic trials. LANDGRAF: And Im here to say its there. Tom Donahue's documentary 'This Changes Everything' examines efforts from within Hollywood to redress the gender imbalance and features a large roster of big-name interviewees, from Anita Hill. And I was sure they must be right and waiting for this fabulous future that was coming. GROSS: How did you decide to create your institute? Emerging economies in the developing world have tried to follow the western model for economic prosperity, with arguably the most marked example of the negative consequences being in China where many cities are continually shrouded in smog, some children in those cities who have never seen a blue sky. GROSS: What did you like about archery? We were made to feel very dispensable. Ditto The First Wives Club, and, more recently, Frozen and Hidden Figures.. (Interestingly, the film was directed by a man, Tom Donahue. And it was fantastic. . He's got you pinned against a car. 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. It was my first audition, and they had called model agencies to say, send any models who can act for an audition. GROSS: But you were with Sydney Pollack. And then I had to play the best baseball player anyone has ever seen hold a bat. I was very upset and angry at that happening to me. Russian So I figured, well, I mean, what were the odds anyway I was going to be in a Sydney Pollack movie with Dustin Hoffman? And we started to have meetings with them. MARTIN: In the age of silent films, women directed a lot of films. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. 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 they were driven out of the unions. And for me, the word feminist was a bad word in my house. 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. makes a muscular case for global warming as the defining, cross-sectional issue of our era., [A]robust new polemic . A lot of negative reaction in the press too like, oh, no, the world is ruined now. DAVIS: Well, the bigger part was the (laughter) - that Sydney liked my audition. And it also struck a nerve that none of us expected. 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. DAVIS: Hopefully not. Nothing except that climate change changes everything. Director Tom Donahue Stars Reese Witherspoon Mira Nair Kleins urgency and outrage is balanced by meticulous documentation and passionate argument. DAVIS: Oh, so - gosh. Japanese Greek A star-studded documentary about gender inequality in film and TV is equal parts history lesson and constructive criticism. 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. MARTIN: So the title of the film, we start with that, This Changes Everything. This is something that you say in the film. DAVIS: Not at all. DONAHUE: I started the film a year before I actually asked Geena to come on board. They founded the Directors Guild of Americas Womens Steering Committee in 1979. So I decided I wanted to take up a sport in the real-life way and not the movie version. MARTIN: I think it was Maya Angelou who said you cant be what you cant see. She ends up shooting him, and then you both go on the lam because you feel like, who's going to believe you? There's far fewer movies with a female lead character. 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. Change or be changed, but make no mistake, this changes everything.. Featuring interviews with Geena Davis, Meryl Streep, Natalie Portman, Taraji P. Henson, Reese Witherspoon, Cate Blanchett, Tiffany Haddish, Jill Soloway, Shonda Rhimes, Jessica Chastain, Yara Shahidi, Chloe Grace Moretz, Amandla Stenberg, Alan Alda, Sandra Oh, Anita Hill, Rashida Jones, Rose McGowan, Judd Apatow, Rosario Dawson, Maria Giese, and many other influential voices in the fight for gender equality. Progress will happen when men take a stand, an emphatic Meryl Streep says. Mike and Alexis, a Montana goat ranching couple who see their dreams coated in oil from a broken pipeline. . It ultimately all worked out for me, but the likelihood of becoming a famous model was actually pretty slim, and I didn't. There are going to be so many more movies with women starring and everything. Maybe they just thought I really wanted to, that I wanted to be such a student of film that that was my goal. Anyone who then told me or told any other journalist in the future, its too hard, no, its not. GROSS: Let down your hair, as you put it. [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.. But on the other hand, I sort of felt like, well, this is what was supposed to happen. . 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 . And then I saw it everywhere. GROSS: It's like, he's short; you're really tall. Its not about carbonits about capitalism. A right wing think tank provides its view that the climate change issue needs to be dealt with through market forces. Although a large part of this documentary focuses on the fact that female directors do not get work and have trouble getting hired, and the director of this film. You know, I mean, both are kind of unattainable. And she founded an institute to study gender discrimination in Hollywood. Was it a centering thing for you - focus? Downloads only available on ad-free plans. Maria Giese is a director who felt shut out of directing because she's a woman. 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. GROSS: A battle with yourself to not battle with yourself. Interwoven with these stories of struggle is Kleins narration, connecting the carbon in the air with the economic system that put it there. We've been talking with actor Geena Davis and director Maria Giese about the campaign for more representation of women behind and in front of the camera in movies and TV. 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. . MARTIN: Every person that Ive spoken with who have seen the film is just shocked by it. 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. And womens films do make more money and have, I think, over the last three years. By what name was This Changes Everything (2018) officially released in India in English? What are we doing? And why does that matter? GIESE: Well, I understood very quickly that the numbers in and of themselves inferred violations of Title VII. DAVIS: Well, it was completely random in some ways. [2] This Changes Everything Directed by: Tom Donahue Produced by: Ilan Arboleda, Kerianne Flynn, Tom Donahue Executive Producers: Geena Davis, Steve Edwards, Regina Scully, Simone Pero, Madeline Di Nonno, Jennie Peters, Patty Casby, Ku-Ling Yurman Co-Producers: Jessicya Materano, Robin Kelleher Production companies: CreativeChaos vmg, New Plot Films 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. AMANPOUR: Yes. A work of startling force, exhaustive reporting, and telling anecdote . And it seemed that, in the 21st century, this was a horrible message to be sending and very shocking. So let me just play that clip. GROSS: Prevent that kind of behavior. DONAHUE: Yes. MARTIN: about women in Hollywood and the underrepresentation of women in Hollywood? Directed by Avi Lewis GEENA DAVIS, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER, THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING: Thank you. YES Magazine 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. 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. By Joel Horwood. Slovene GROSS: My guests are actor Geena Davis and director Maria Giese. Is that why because no studio heads appeared in this film because theyre so embarrassed? 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. Well, do they have any photos of her in a bathing suit? I mean dont you just want to throw your shoes at the screen? Geena Davis and Maria Giese, welcome to FRESH AIR. In the course of this struggle, they help ignite a nationwide movement. -Entertainment Weekly ELLEN POMPEO: All the parts that I had been auditioning for were the girlfriend or the wife, so I did notice immediately that, oh, I get to be the lead role. And I started to do research. And it hasnt changed in all that time. This Changes Everything Official trailer Did we miss something on diversity? Now, this changes everything. After we take a short break, we'll hear from photographer Bruce Talamon, whose photos of soul, funk and R&B stars of the '70s and early '80s are collected in a book. DAVIS: It did well. I fear the message may continue to elude those who need to hear it the most. And the ending's kind of similar, where, you know, they kind of ride off a cliff, and you drive off a cliff. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. And I was horrified. This is a rush transcript. We can talk about it and everybody is talking about it, you know. Well, it meant a little ironically. After the release of This Changes Everything book and film, Naomi went on a sold out tour to speak to audiences worldwide. 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. After a break, I'll talk more with Geena Davis about her movie career, and Bruce Talamon will talk about taking photos of soul, funk and R&B stars of the '70s. Turkish All rights reserved. DONAHUE: Sure. Yeah. MARTIN: But there are a number of women who are interviewed in this film whose careers have been damaged by speaking out. GROSS: So you and your friend, played by Susan Sarandon - they go on a trip together, have a lot of drinks in a bar, guy comes up to you, asked to dance with you. that women are now dominating that field because we just saw it on T.V. 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