. Geena Davis is also an executive producer of the film. It takes a bit of time for the documentary to find its groove. 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. GROSS: Did you think of it as discrimination against older women? This Changes Everything has been translated into 27 languages: Arabic Well, do they have any photos of her in a bathing suit? GROSS: So you went to the ACLU, and then the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission became involved, too. . Its not about carbonits about capitalism. 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. MICHEL MARTIN, CONTRIBUTOR: Geena Davis, Tom Donahue, thank you so much for talking to us. We have also been told that humanity is too greedy and selfish to rise to this challenge. Oh, we forgot. Turkish The epitome of WTF? Accuracy and availability may vary. And Im like, yay, I cant wait. They could say, what was I doing? Maybe they just thought I really wanted to, that I wanted to be such a student of film that that was my goal. Like competing - if you're nervous, your shot's going to be off. 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. Grieving the loss of a best friend she couldnt protect, an ex-bodyguard sets out to fulfill her dear friends last wish: sweet revenge. Bring me my tiny violin. And then Susan Sarandon comes out. Croatian TAX ID# 86-1943473, Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, PO Box 9615, Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91701. Interwoven with these stories of struggle is Kleins narration, connecting the carbon in the air with the economic system that put it there. 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. And I think the first thing to change will be on screen. GROSS: So Geena Davis, I have a few questions for you about your career. I think theres some backlash. 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. . In the course of this struggle, they help ignite a nationwide movement. I'm sure it made a lot of money. Progress will happen when men take a stand, an emphatic Meryl Streep says. And I was kind of good at all of it. MARTIN: Every person that Ive spoken with who have seen the film is just shocked by it. They founded the Directors Guild of Americas Womens Steering Committee in 1979. It looks like we don't have any synopsis for this title yet. MARTIN: I think it was Maya Angelou who said you cant be what you cant see. In 2004, she founded the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media. Its the lowest hanging fruit possible. MARTIN: You know one of the things that really fascinated me about the film is that you point out it wasnt always this way. By Joel Horwood. Presenting portraits of communities on the front lines, This Changes Everything is an epic attempt to re-imagine the vast challenge of climate change. Romanian Yeah. 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. And I was so shocked when my coach said after just a few months, well, now you've got to start competing. Starring Naomi Klein Stacey Arwen Raab. Filmed over 211 shoot days in nine countries and five continents over four years, This Changes Everything is an epic attempt to re-imagine the vast challenge of climate change. And I was like, you know, I was a huge fan of "GLOW" and very much wanted to do 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. but like a place where we actually want to live And so it kind of made sense in that way. GROSS: But you're in your underwear. DONAHUE: Its funny. In the directors guild, there were only two women I think up until the 1960s who were members of the union. You were working with Dustin Hoffman. Bosnian 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. So they were driven out of the unions. All rights reserved. Chinese Complex Research shows a connection between kids' healthy self-esteem and positive portrayals in media. Globe & Mail ("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. You putting men in charge basically driving women and people of color out. You hear so many women speaking up when they encounter injustice and openly talking about it. 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. For more details, visit the official This Changes Everything website, where youll find more Press information and Endnotes. . Chinese Complex And I'd be like, which part exactly? 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. And so I learned at 36 that I actually was coordinated. GROSS: And doesn't know where to put his eyes. I very much expected that that would not be the case. AMANPOUR: Yes. There's also people like Ryan Murphy, who has that initiative called Half, where he just decided and announced that half of his cast and crew were always going to be female. He's got you pinned against a car. Davis and director Maria Giese discuss the dramatic disparities on screen. Being so tall, I just didn't want anybody to look at me, especially if I was going to be failing at a sport. 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. MARTIN: So Geena, how do you stay in it though? So I knew the way to move the numbers and to make real significant change was through legal action. Because the next movie somebody makes could be gender-balanced. Also with us is director Maria Giese, who's featured in the film, too. And I'm like, oh, my God, no. And I was horrified. [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.. This is FRESH AIR. We were made to feel very dispensable. DAVIS: Yeah, it's very centering and focusing. Kleins urgency and outrage is balanced by meticulous documentation and passionate argument. And in May 2015, The New York Times published the ACLU's 15-page letter to the EEOC and to other government agencies, calling for an industry-wide federal investigation into systemic discrimination against women directors. We can reflect the future now and it will make it happen. Geena Davis is also an executive producer of the film. [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. 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. And a lot of men would say to me when I was making the film, Well, the problem is you just follow the money. If women films made more money, of course, there would be more women films. MARIA GIESE: My first feature film directing job out of graduate film school was in England, not in the United States. Tomatometer 18 Reviews. 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%. DAVIS: Oh, I don't know which one you mean. DAVIS: Well, it did in a way. So do you have any idea where things stand? Melachrini, a housewife in Northern Greece where economic crisis is being used to justify mining and drilling projects that threaten the mountains, seas, and tourism economy. 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. Kleinexposes the myths that are clouding the climate debate. That was the first time where I was ever like, I guess, men dont see us women equal in this industry. Theyll just get somebody else. And then I had to play the best baseball player anyone has ever seen hold a bat. Forget everything you think you know about global warming. This Changes Everything makes this point very clear, while also seeking to spark initiative. Oh, no, we can't. DONAHUE: Sure. Hosting a Screening (note that licensing and contact info in this document are out of date / no longer active) Faith screening guide. MARTIN: So you can see it with kids entertainment? Climate change isnt just another issue to be neatly filed between taxes and health care. I mean dont you just want to throw your shoes at the screen? 2019 | Maturity Rating: 13+ | 1h 35m | Documentary Films. 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. 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. This Changes Everything is, improbably, Kleins most optimistic book. And then maybe five years later, another movie comes out with a female star. MARTIN: Have you felt your career jeopardized by your unspokeness about this? I'm Terry Gross, and this is FRESH AIR. Against the backdrop of Greece in crisis, a powerful social movement rises. Bulgarian JOHN LANDGRAF, HEAD, FX: I had this unconscious bias that we would have to be making sacrifices to hire people with less experience. The EEOC functions in total confidentiality. Like why do I 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. 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. DONAHUE: They tend to deny the problem after seeing the film. And it hasnt changed in all that time. DAVIS: Well, so my character - they told me from the beginning - was a former showgirl who, when she was getting too old to do that, went into management and was able to create a successful career for herself that way. MARTIN: Did you think it was as bad as it is? Mike and Alexis, a Montana goat ranching couple who see their dreams coated in oil from a broken pipeline. 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. 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. The main thing that's very different is now it's completely OK to talk about this stuff. Slovene So Geena, I think some people might hear that and go, Oh, thats too bad but why? Running time: 1 hour 36 minutes. 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. . JENNIFER LAWRENCE: Its our time to have wage equality once and for all and equal . And you wouldnt know it because of how it turns out, four percent post his school. The film combines talking-head interviews with drill-down stats and the backstory on legal actions taken to force accountability from studio heads. 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. Its not going to benefit you. The numbers have obviously not improved for decades. 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. Its an alarm that calls us to fix an economic system that is already failing us in many ways. Will this film change everything? 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. How did you take up archery? You know, some shows are researched and all that and certainly harmless. GROSS: But you were with Sydney Pollack. And her actions led to an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission investigation into systemic discrimination against women directors. MARTIN: But there are a number of women who are interviewed in this film whose careers have been damaged by speaking out. 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. It was just like the way it was, and, you know, being sexy and all that kind of stuff. Over the course of 90 minutes, viewers will meet. Give us some of the numbers that you find most disturbing. So I did. Geena, I want to start with you. From left, Joelle Dobrow, Nell Cox, Susan Nimoy, Dolores Ferraro, Lynne Littman and Victoria Hochberg in 1980. Bosnian . And I could see that I was not going to make any headway with them. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Its one of the best things thats ever happened in my professional career. This sudden change in how people reacted when they recognized me was very, very pronounced. Directed by Avi Lewis, and inspired by Naomi Kleins international non-fiction bestsellerThis Changes Everything, the film presents seven powerful portraits of communities on the front lines, from Montanas Powder River Basin to the Alberta Tar Sands, from the coast of South India to Beijing and beyond. Michael Mann tells Christiane Amanpour why we need to rethink what we eat and how we produce it. It often seems that these worlds are completely . The coming of sound meant they needed big capital investment. And she doesnt know its her period because she had never been taught that by her mother. Bulgarian GROSS: So what about other women you knew from film school? GROSS: So what did you learn being on set? This Changes Everything Review: Hollywoods Men, Called to Action, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/08/movies/this-changes-everything-review.html. And womens films do make more money and have, I think, over the last three years. And my friend and I acted out your trip. It was night and day, where before, they might say, hey, "Beetlejuice" or something. We havent made significant progress, Klein argues, because weve been expecting solutions from the very same institutions that created the problem in the first place . And then after about a year and a half, they told me they were going to pursue it. In October, at a special ceremony, she'll receive an honorary Oscar, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. . Kumi Naidoo,Former Director at Greenpeace International, Genuinely moving In this part of the interview, I'm going to talk more with Davis about her own movie career. 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: 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. Catalan I could do that too. GROSS: This is FRESH AIR. 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 . This Changes Everything, which launches July 22 in theaters across America, is a new documentary (ironically, by a man) that traces the trailblazing women in the business, like Shonda Rhimes, Cate Blanchett, and Natalie Portman, as well as Meryl Streep, Jessica Chastain, Reese Witherspoon, Taraji P. Henson and Rose McGowan to help unpack . 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. French And it seemed that, in the 21st century, this was a horrible message to be sending and very shocking. GROSS: came into play here, too, because there's more of you for Dustin Hoffman to be fazed by when he walks in. OK. Let me just play a clip from him in the film. After feeling that she was shut out of directing because she's a woman, she became an activist. The extraordinary detail and richness of the cinematography inThis Changes Everythingprovides an epic canvas for this exploration of the greatest challenge of our time. MARTIN: Why do you think that was the click moment for you? 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. She's interesting. Author interview. Catalan GROSS: Geena, I want to ask you about one of the recurring roles that you have now, and that's on this series "GLOW" - the Netflix series "GLOW," which is about women wrestlers in the 1980s. He refuses. Well, we call the film This Changes Everything, because its about kind of why that doesnt happen. Written with an elegant blend of science, statistics, field reports and personal insight, it does not paralyze but buoys the reader. Turkish GROSS: This is the equal opportunity law. Thelma & Louise was supposed to have done it. 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. Hilary Weston Writers Trust Prize for Nonfiction. By what name was This Changes Everything (2018) officially released in India in English? . And this is according to the Center for the Study of Women and Television and Film in San Diego State University. And so it was something they had no idea they were doing, and the data changed everything for them. And the ending's kind of similar, where, you know, they kind of ride off a cliff, and you drive off a cliff. Since then it has been shown 1000s of times in community screenings around the world. JOIN NOW. 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 thats why when it says 75 percent of women made this film, people actually clap at that line at the end. And there's a scene where you come out in - why don't you describe the costume. This Changes Everything 2015 Not Rated 1 h 29 m IMDb RATING 6.4 /10 614 YOUR RATING Rate Play trailer 2:22 1 Video 16 Photos Documentary 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. MORETZ: The biggest part of the movie is when she gets her period for the first time in the shower. Its the chivalry of the 21st century.. 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. 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. And they started to reach out to interview many, many women, as many women directors as they could. DAVIS: In "A League Of Their Own," yeah. DAVIS: Images are so powerful that it will impact real life. DAVIS: It was very specific, actually. This Changes Everything Official trailer Did we miss something on diversity? A determined detective continues his search for the truth behind Asia's largest drug organization and its elusive boss he has unfinished business with. DONAHUE: Sure. I'm Terry Gross. Tom, do you want to add to that? 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. Its just very elevated because its in the entertainment world. Im an optimist. What were you looking for and what did you come away with? Director Avi Lewis Writer No, I didn't think, oh, it's me, at all. This is FRESH AIR. French It'll ruin your career was the thinking. So I had been very unathletic as a kid. 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. So here was my hero calling himself a feminist. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I was very lucky because Greys Anatomy was developed under the network presence. 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 its kind of working. . Theres no one they can complain to. Klein and Lewis paint a picture of a post-fossil-fueled, post-capitalist future that seems not only within reach, DAVIS: Well, the bigger part was the (laughter) - that Sydney liked my audition. So I think that's a big change that's happened. They're both featured in the new documentary "This Changes Everything" about discrimination against women in front of and behind the camera in Hollywood. DONAHUE: Well, two things. Some positive developments are shown in China and Germany specifically. 1 hr 30 min. This Changes Everything. 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. DAVIS: Oh, so - gosh. Reese Witherspoon: The basis of your thinking is determined by the first images you see; whose values are important and whose stories are important, and that's what we're teaching little girls and little boys. GROSS: What did you like about archery? It takes an incisive look at the history, empirical evidence, and systemic forces that foster gender discrimination and thus reinforce disparity in our culture. . 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. 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. The most profound threat to humanity is the war our economic model is waging against life on earth. This Changes Everything August 31, 2015 We're excited to share the official poster for This Changes Everything the documentary! MARTIN: Really? And it was fantastic. GROSS: My guests are actor Geena Davis and director Maria Giese. . . When, for instance, in 2017 I think, female-led films made 38 percent more money at the Box Office than male-led films. And so thats what I did and, in fact, its proven that theyre incredibly grateful and horrified and embarrassed. LANDGRAF: The minute we open our door and we say, come express it here, the work got better. And there is also no human resources department that these women can go to. We also heard from director Maria Giese, who's also featured in the film "This Changes Everything." DAVIS: Well, no, no. DONAHUE: I started the film a year before I actually asked Geena to come on board. Actress Geena Davis rallies Meryl Streep, Shonda Rhimes, Reese Witherspoon and others in this powerful documentary. Russian 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. - because it was a big hit. And Kim and I are sitting there going like, well, respectfully, I dont think you know what youre talking about. Be the first to contribute. 2015, Documentary, 1h 29m. It's a lonely sport because you're out there for hours every day shooting by yourself. What have they each done? For the rest of us, This Changes Everything will frustrate, enrage and maybe even inspire. You know, the "Teletubbies" are gender-balanced; I don't know if you can tell. And for a very brief time, the nature of that change is still up to us. We should be showing kids that boys and girls share the same bicycle. Finnish Now we will see so many more female buddy pictures, female road movies or whatever and movies about female friendship. Script extract. A work of startling force, exhaustive reporting, and telling anecdote . The New York Times Book Review called it The most momentous and contentious environmental book since Silent Spring.. DAVIS: I think partly, back when I started, I wasnt thinking about that, even. And she's been dedicated to equality for women, more roles for women in Hollywood. 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. 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. GROSS: So the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media has done a lot of research on the numbers. 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. There's far fewer movies with a female lead character. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I think they just dont like me. I always say go through the script and change it. . So I learned about being a feminist through the activism of a man. Directed by Avi Lewis Greek She's featured in the movie and as an executive producer of the film. So let me just play that clip. When you have 150 men on set and one woman, how is that woman protected? 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. You used to make a movie a year. They're both featured in the new documentary about that campaign called "This Changes Everything.". 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