GIESE: So in - five months after they received that letter from the ACLU, they began their investigation. Which is why none of them appeared in this film? Starring Naomi Klein Stacey Arwen Raab. . By Joel Horwood. 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. TAX ID# 86-1943473, Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, PO Box 9615, Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91701. DAVIS: Well, I mean, come on. The Film thischangeseverything.org Press Kit Aug. 05 2015 5 About the book The feature documentary was inspired by award-winning author Naomi Klein's critically acclaimed worldwide bestselling non-fiction book This Changes Everything. Climate change isnt just another issue to be neatly filed between taxes and health care. . VarietyMagazine, If you care about justice you must see this. makes a muscular case for global warming as the defining, cross-sectional issue of our era., [A]robust new polemic . Oh, we forgot. So I had a lot of training. A star-studded documentary about gender inequality in film and TV is equal parts history lesson and constructive criticism. 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 GROSS: This is the equal opportunity law. 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. And that, for me, became a battle worth fighting for. So theres something really deep and systemic going on. Why dont things change? And they got really excited. Italian 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? Chinese Complex And it also struck a nerve that none of us expected. The first film you directed was shown at the Cannes Film Festival. But that was my plan. GROSS: It's like, he's short; you're really tall. Norwegian DAVIS: Oh, so - gosh. 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. The film is a Canada-United States coproduction. As the staggering statistics on gender parity continue to demonstrate, though, not much has changed. 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. DONAHUE: Sure. MARTIN: In fact, theres a clip for that. And that was an extraordinary triumph. Original filename: Naomi Klein - This Changes Everything.pdf URL: https://pdf.yt/d/Skb-ch_k7psDm90Q Production companies: CreativeChaos vmg, New Plot Films, US Release 2019. This Changes Everything | A book, film and engagement project about why the climate crisis is the best opportunity we've ever had to build a better world. 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. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I think they just dont like me. A lot of negative reaction in the press too like, oh, no, the world is ruined now. Nobody was going into this thinking, oh, we're going to really make a statement with this, or this is going to be a powerful message for anybody. Mike and Alexis, a Montana goat ranching couple who see their dreams coated in oil from a broken pipeline. DAVIS: Well, I was astounded that it happened. Copyright 2019 NPR. GROSS: But you were with Sydney Pollack. 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. Turkish 2019 | Maturity Rating: TV-MA | 1h 35m | Documentary Films. Chinese Simple They founded the Directors Guild of Americas Womens Steering Committee in 1979. DONAHUE: They tend to deny the problem after seeing the film. GROSS: How did you decide to create your institute? DAVIS: Absolutely, which is fantastic. This Changes Everything has been translated into 27 languages: Arabic And hopefully, young boys will see that a male-directed this and think I can do that too. . 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. The film combines talking-head interviews with drill-down stats and the backstory on legal actions taken to force accountability from studio heads. This sudden change in how people reacted when they recognized me was very, very pronounced. GROSS: This is FRESH AIR. DONAHUE: Yes. DAVIS: Well, no, no. I mean dont you just want to throw your shoes at the screen? 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.". UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Everyone, listen up, please. And her actions led to an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission investigation into systemic discrimination against women directors. 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. Yeah. The most profound threat to humanity is the war our economic model is waging against life on earth. So it was all very shocking and great because what it really - well, first of all, I'll tell you how it affected me. Bosnian When, for instance, in 2017 I think, female-led films made 38 percent more money at the Box Office than male-led films. You know, it was, like, an amazing introduction. 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 . She's in Paris. GIESE: Well, that was the thing. Produced by: Ilan Arboleda, Kerianne Flynn, Tom Donahue This is a rush transcript. DAVIS: Oh, no. Catalan In the lawless land of Gando, fierce bandits will stop at nothing to fight for their precious homeland and loved ones even if it means life or death. Running time: 1 hour 36 minutes. Over the course of 90 minutes, viewers will meet. DAVIS: Well, the bigger part was the (laughter) - that Sydney liked my audition. Chinese Simple As defeated as one feels when you dont see a change happening, I really do think that it can and that it will. MARTIN: So Geena, how do you stay in it though? 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. Interwoven with these stories of struggle is Kleins narration, connecting the carbon in the air with the economic system that put it there. KIMBERLY PIERCE, DIRECTOR, CARRIE: I was being talked to and treated and questioned constantly and indifferently. MARTIN: To that point, heres a scene from the film which speaks with that with Kimberly Pierce, the director, and Chloe Grace Moretz. I wasnt thinking, this is so unfair. Documentary. He's just decided that that's what he's going to do. 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. (Interestingly, the film was directed by a man, Tom Donahue. MARTIN: Do you think its because your initial focus was on kids television? So and it wasnt really until after Me Too and all that happened that we all realized, this is different now. German 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. MARTIN: And they just cant believe that it is what it is. So what impact do you think it had both on audiences but also on Hollywood? Globe & Mail 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. Research shows a connection between kids' healthy self-esteem and positive portrayals in media. Turkish Slovene GROSS: Geena Davis, let me bring you back into the conversation. Tomatometer 18 Reviews. And so that was really fun. Running time: 1 hour 36 minutes. Michael Mann tells Christiane Amanpour why we need to rethink what we eat and how we produce 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. This Changes Everything August 31, 2015 We're excited to share the official poster for This Changes Everything the documentary! Directed by Avi Lewis (AFI Festival award-winner The Take) and inspired by the New York Times-bestselling book by Naomi Klein, the feature documentary This Changes Everything will launch in 2015. Overview. And I could see that I was not going to make any headway with them. Youll get much less salary because you guys dont really matter and well replace you if you have any complaints. This Changes Everything. Film schools are now half female. 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. 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. And, you know, being harassed and all kinds of things going on, being not listened to, talked down to, all that stuff. Accuracy and availability may vary. GROSS: Did you think of it as discrimination against older women? GROSS: So the EEOC has been conducting an investigation into systemic discrimination against women directors. . But we were stunned at the reaction that was instant - cover of Time magazine and all that stuff. Netflix | Apple TV | Amazon Video | Vudu | FandangoNOW | Kanopy | Hoopla, Directed by: Tom Donahue And he just does it. Finnish PBS is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. 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. He said no, that's the whole point is competing. It looks like we don't have any synopsis for this title yet. She braids together the science, psychology, geopolitics, economics, ethics and activism that shape the climate question. 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. Now we will see so many more female buddy pictures, female road movies or whatever and movies about female friendship. Actress Geena Davis rallies Meryl Streep, Shonda Rhimes, Reese Witherspoon and others in this powerful documentary. GROSS: So Geena Davis, I have a few questions for you about your career. That was the first time where I was ever like, I guess, men dont see us women equal in this industry. Is that why because no studio heads appeared in this film because theyre so embarrassed? 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. And the ending's kind of similar, where, you know, they kind of ride off a cliff, and you drive off a cliff. And then maybe five years later, another movie comes out with a female star. The main thing that's very different is now it's completely OK to talk about this stuff. 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. It often seems that these worlds are completely . to unsuccessfully sue Warner Bros. and Columbia Pictures for discrimination). Go behind the scenes of Netflix TV shows and movies, see what's coming soon and watch bonus videos on. MARTIN: Really? Hosting a Screening (note that licensing and contact info in this document are out of date / no longer active) Faith screening guide. And Kim and I are sitting there going like, well, respectfully, I dont think you know what youre talking about. But it's profoundly not the case right now. Director Tom Donahue Stars Reese Witherspoon Mira Nair Author interview. And but I just assumed kids media would be gender-balanced, and wholesome, and good for you, and all that. Can you talk about that? No, I didn't think, oh, it's me, at all. I think my peers and I were always operating under the assumption that you should never complain about anything. You know, some shows are researched and all that and certainly harmless. So I learned about being a feminist through the activism of a man. 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. 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. But so I think that will change and I think it will impact society, that life will imitate art. 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. a scene from This Changes Everything, the documentary. In 2014, the book won the Hilary Weston Writers Trust Prize for Nonfiction, Canadas most prestigious award for non-fiction. A parallel issue to what we've been talking about - we've been talking about inclusion of women - parallel issue is the predatory behavior of certain men in Hollywood - directors, actors, heads of companies. LANDGRAF: And Im here to say its there. And I think the first thing to change will be on screen. 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. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. GROSS: Prevent that kind of behavior. And for a very brief time, the nature of that change is still up to us. Well, do they have any photos of her in a bathing suit? DAVIS: Well, it did in a way. Geena, I want to start with you. - three years and seven months going. but like a place where we actually want to live Oh, no, we can't. The Geena Davis Institute is a nonprofit organization exempt from federal income tax under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. In this part of the interview, I'm going to talk more with Davis about her own movie career. 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. DAVIS: Right. Women are socialized to go along with the dominant patriarch. DONAHUE: So the cheaper shows on Netflix and Hulu. DAVIS: Oh, I don't know which one you mean. For more details, visit the official This Changes Everything website, where youll find more Press information and Endnotes. 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. Grieving the loss of a best friend she couldnt protect, an ex-bodyguard sets out to fulfill her dear friends last wish: sweet revenge. No one movie can persuade an industry to suddenly reverse decades of discrimination and redistribute power to include the less powerful. And I was horrified. There's no question about it. The catastrophic effects of climate change are viewed through the lens of those in the US northeast coast who suffered through Hurricane Sandy. Was it a centering thing for you - focus? 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. Why hasnt it changed before now? Now, this changes everything. And I think thats but also part of it is that my peers and I felt like you cannot complain about any of this because they wont hire you. So I never thought about it again. This documentary takes a deep look at gender disparity in Hollywood through the eyes of well-known actresses and female filmmakers. Profoundly, embarrassing few. They could say, what was I doing? What have they each done? GROSS: And I just think it's so interesting that we're having this conversation about women's empowerment and inclusion of women, and the first part of your career revolves around being in your underwear (laughter). Nothing is certain. And so I never asked any questions, and I didn't know that you didn't have to come every day. A right wing think tank provides its view that the climate change issue needs to be dealt with through market forces. The poster was designed by street artist Shepard Fairey, whose most famous work This Changes Everything Trailer Premieres in 26 languages and counting This Changes Everything August 26, 2015 And a buddy movies are always men's movies. He refuses. 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. What happened after that? 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