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And I was so shocked when my coach said after just a few months, well, now you've got to start competing. But for the most part, I saw appalling gender imbalance. And I was kind of good at all of it. I didn't want to try any sports because I was - I call it physically shy. MARTIN: To that point, heres a scene from the film which speaks with that with Kimberly Pierce, the director, and Chloe Grace Moretz. And I was horrified. Here it is. This Changes Everything August 31, 2015 We're excited to share the official poster for This Changes Everything the documentary! 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. Script extract. She's receiving an honorary Oscar this year, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, at a special ceremony in October. It will be on air. Romanian Author interview. 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. She braids together the science, psychology, geopolitics, economics, ethics and activism that shape the climate question. Copyright 2019 NPR. 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. Go behind the scenes of Netflix TV shows and movies, see what's coming soon and watch bonus videos on. The result is the most momentous and contentious environmental book since Silent Spring. . 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. LANDGRAF: And maybe that the talent wouldnt be there. So I never thought about it again. (Interestingly, the film was directed by a man, Tom Donahue. And I had gone to Paris to do the collections, and in the meantime, Sydney Pollack saw my audition tape and said, hey, I like her. AMANPOUR: Yes. 56%. 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. German 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 . . Well, get her back. They're both featured in the new documentary about that campaign called "This Changes Everything.". Crystal, a young indigenous leader in Tar Sands country, as she fights for access to a restricted military base in search of answers about an environmental disaster in progress. 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? GROSS: It's like, he's short; you're really tall. Norwegian But we were stunned at the reaction that was instant - cover of Time magazine and all that stuff. 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'd like to see if I could do that. Russian You can pick up a lot on a set. Japanese They could say, what was I doing? (Laughter). UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: They dont care that Im black. Because the next movie somebody makes could be gender-balanced. 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. -Alice Walker, author and activist, Purposely unsettling Ultimately encouraging I never got another paying job. makes a muscular case for global warming as the defining, cross-sectional issue of our era., [A]robust new polemic . Hosting a Screening (note that licensing and contact info in this document are out of date / no longer active) Faith screening guide. He's just decided that that's what he's going to do. . 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. Finnish This Changes Everything 2018, Documentary, 1h 37m 88% Tomatometer 25 Reviews 100% Audience Score Fewer than 50 Verified Ratings Where to watch Rent/buy Subscription Rent/buy Rent/buy Want to. Oh, no, we can't. When, for instance, in 2017 I think, female-led films made 38 percent more money at the Box Office than male-led films. 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. MARTIN: Have you felt your career jeopardized by your unspokeness about this? 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. Things were looking good for you after film school. Tomatometer 18 Reviews. This Changes Everything. Research shows a connection between kids' healthy self-esteem and positive portrayals in media. GROSS: And you also are an archer - like bow and arrow archery. 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. GROSS: Did you think of it as discrimination against older women? The EEOC functions in total confidentiality. You were attached to other projects. Korean 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. GROSS: And so it's a kind of - I think at the time, people were comparing it to Butch Cassidy. . We were made to feel very dispensable. So I knew that we could invoke that law to be able to change things in a very significant way. 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. Here it is. And, of course, it's all a joke. Profoundly, embarrassing few. A really decent doc, but like 99% of the reviews here, I'm completely dumbfounded why they hired a MALE to direct this. . Swedish It takes a bit of time for the documentary to find its groove. 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. The New York Times Book Review called it The most momentous and contentious environmental book since Silent Spring.. There's no question about it. What happened after that? Produced with New Plot Films in association with the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, David Yurman, and . Film schools are now half female. DAVIS: Oh, so - gosh. 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. GROSS: Yes, you're not fazed by seeing Dustin Hoffman walk in because you think he's really a woman. '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. And a buddy movies are always men's movies. Maybe they just thought I really wanted to, that I wanted to be such a student of film that that was my goal. And we started to have meetings with them. Buy now. DAVIS: It did well. Is that why because no studio heads appeared in this film because theyre so embarrassed? Most importantly, the film seeks pathways and solutions from within and outside the industry, and around the world. Geena Davis is an actress who starred in such films as "A League Of Their Own" and "Thelma & Louise." Tom, do you want to add to that? When you have 150 men on set and one woman, how is that woman protected? And so I did. She's in Paris. So I had been very unathletic as a kid. Turkish Good Deed Entertainment (Theatrical Premiere), Starz (Broadcast), VOD, TVOD. I always say go through the script and change it. And you wouldnt know it because of how it turns out, four percent post his school. GROSS: This is FRESH AIR. Now, this changes everything. Italian Where's her bathing suit stuff? 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. 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). Interwoven with these stories of struggle is Kleins narration, connecting the carbon in the air with the economic system that put it there. Several women serve as executive producers, including Davis.). 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. GROSS: So what was your strategy to try to open the door to more women directors? DONAHUE: Hopefully not. Was it a centering thing for you - focus? Greek What are we doing? Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at www.npr.org for further information. So I figured, well, I mean, what were the odds anyway I was going to be in a Sydney Pollack movie with Dustin Hoffman? Unions did not allow women because putting women in the unions meant lower pay and lower prestige. Didnt seem to happen. Progress will happen when men take a stand, an emphatic Meryl Streep says. And why does that matter? You know, the "Teletubbies" are gender-balanced; I don't know if you can tell. A new documentary explores how women in Hollywood are pushing for more representation in front of and behind the camera. Copy may not be in its final form. Hilary Weston Writers Trust Prize for Nonfiction. And you say in the film that you were watching something with your daughter. Or did you think, oh, it's me - no one wants me anymore? 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. And it was just, you know, doing a video with a casting assistant. Klein and Lewis paint a picture of a post-fossil-fueled, post-capitalist future that seems not only within reach, 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. But were not hearing womens voices or seeing the stories told through the female gaze when there are so few female directors. MICHEL MARTIN, CONTRIBUTOR: Geena Davis, Tom Donahue, thank you so much for talking to us. So I think that's a big change that's happened. Jyothi, a matriarch in Andhra Pradesh, India who sings sweetly and battles fiercely along with her fellow villagers, fighting a proposed coal-fired power plant that will destroy a life-giving wetland. Also was named Observer Book of the Year and a New York Times Book Review 100 Notable Books of the Year and Margaret Atwood chose it for The Guardians Best Books of 2014 list. It was a small budget, and we hoped somebody would see it and not object to the ending. 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. We can reflect the future now and it will make it happen. Female. MARTIN: Every person that Ive spoken with who have seen the film is just shocked by it. Overview. Its always been that way. GIESE: Well, I understood very quickly that the numbers in and of themselves inferred violations of Title VII. So at 41, I took it up and then became absolutely obsessed, as I do with things. Portuguese 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. So they send over a Victoria's Secret catalogue (laughter). So let me just play that clip. 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. And, you know, that's obviously an option that everybody can take. And her actions led to an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission investigation into systemic discrimination against women directors. I think the big advantage was that people who make kids entertainment do it because they care about kids. Oh, we forgot. GROSS: So the EEOC has been conducting an investigation into systemic discrimination against women directors. You go out to the parking lot with him, and he starts to rape you. DONAHUE: Well, two things. The extraordinary detail and richness of the cinematography inThis Changes Everythingprovides an epic canvas for this exploration of the greatest challenge of our time. 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. So I'm wondering if you think it's having that kind of effect. So there's no way for us to really know where the investigation is, even though it's now, oh - what? She's best known for her starring roles in "Thelma & Louise," "A League Of Their Own," and "Beetlejuice." Executive Producers: Geena Davis, Steve Edwards, Regina Scully, Simone Pero, Madeline Di Nonno, Jennie Peters, Patty Casby, Ku-Ling Yurman Maria Giese is a director who felt shut out of directing because she's a woman. . Maleeha Lodhi joins the program to explain tensions between Pakistan and India. . And that was an extraordinary triumph. Determined to provide a ray of light for those under her care, a young nurse navigates the world of mental health and the diverse stories surrounding it. GROSS: And doesn't know where to put his eyes. And this is in every sector of society, its the same story. MARTIN: Talk to me about the Geena Davis Institute which you founded years ago. And that, for me, became a battle worth fighting for. 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. - because it was a big hit. I mean you know. Throughout the film, Klein builds to her most controversial and exciting idea: that we can seize the existential crisis of climate change to transform our failed economic system into something radically better. When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. Over the course of 90 minutes, viewers will meet. 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. 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. In the directors guild, there were only two women I think up until the 1960s who were members of the union. So it was all very shocking and great because what it really - well, first of all, I'll tell you how it affected me. Thats the problem. It takes an incisive look at the history, empirical evidence, and systemic forces that foster gender discrimination and thus reinforce disparity in our culture. Global Release 2020, 2023 Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media. Its not about carbonits about capitalism. SCREENING GUIDES. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Its one of the best things thats ever happened in my professional career. Slovene GROSS: A battle with yourself to not battle with yourself. And two and a half years later, I was a semifinalist for the Olympic trials. And I also expected it to be not true anymore by the time I would get to that age. How did you take up archery? Give us some of the numbers that you find most disturbing. Your first movie role, "Tootsie," you're in your underwear in the film. They founded the Directors Guild of Americas Womens Steering Committee in 1979. Globe & Mail PBS is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. Portuguese Slovene And your role is as the entertainment director of a casino. We have been told its impossible to get off fossil fuels when in fact we know exactly how to do itit just requires breaking every rule in the free-market playbook: reining in corporate power, rebuilding local economies, and reclaiming our democracies. Norwegian 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. The catastrophic effects of climate change are viewed through the lens of those in the US northeast coast who suffered through Hurricane Sandy. MARTIN: And you do make a point of saying in the film that 75 percent of the crew are women. 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. Promotional materials, trailers & welcome video. And so thats what I did and, in fact, its proven that theyre incredibly grateful and horrified and embarrassed. . Actress Geena Davis rallies Meryl Streep, Shonda Rhimes, Reese Witherspoon and others in this . That was the first time where I was ever like, I guess, men dont see us women equal in this industry. Actress Geena Davis rallies Meryl Streep, Shonda Rhimes, Reese Witherspoon and others in this . GROSS: But you're in your underwear. 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. Like why do I care? And so I learned at 36 that I actually was coordinated. So its kind of working. In 2004, she founded the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media. Its an alarm that calls us to fix an economic system that is already failing us in many ways. Well, Tom, talk a little about what the problem is if you would. GROSS: This is the equal opportunity law. We have been told the market will save us, when in fact the addiction to profit and growth is digging us in deeper every day. Well, we call the film This Changes Everything, because its about kind of why that doesnt happen. It's really fun and incredibly challenging. French DAVIS: Well, it did in a way. 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. And then for a couple of movies after that, I had to learn other physical skills like horseback riding and taekwondo and fencing and ice skating and a lot of stuff. So do you have any idea where things stand? This is FRESH AIR. 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. Written with an elegant blend of science, statistics, field reports and personal insight, it does not paralyze but buoys the reader. And, you know, the growing movement against Keystone XL, but, frankly, all of the tar sands pipelines, is really starting to resonate right there in the electoral cycle. GROSS: Let down your hair, as you put it. 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