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. GROSS: The one with the feathers and DAVIS: The one with the feathers and rhinestones? 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. What are we doing? 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. I mean you know. He said no, that's the whole point is competing. The result is the most momentous and contentious environmental book since Silent Spring. And I started to do research. 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 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 . So I figured, well, I mean, what were the odds anyway I was going to be in a Sydney Pollack movie with Dustin Hoffman? DAVIS: It did well. But I loved it. A determined detective continues his search for the truth behind Asia's largest drug organization and its elusive boss he has unfinished business with. Davis and director Maria Giese discuss the dramatic disparities on screen. She starts her own organization, the Geena Davis Institute, on gender in media to keep track of the imbalance. He was the photographer for "Soul Train" and took photos for Jet, Ebony and the black-owned LA newspaper Soul. Norwegian DAVIS: Images are so powerful that it will impact real life. Oh, we forgot. No one movie can persuade an industry to suddenly reverse decades of discrimination and redistribute power to include the less powerful. And I just want an excuse to be able to do that (laughter). GROSS: And so it's a kind of - I think at the time, people were comparing it to Butch Cassidy. And so I learned at 36 that I actually was coordinated. 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. And so I thought, this is an enormous problem if we are training kids from the beginning that girls are second-class citizens. We can reflect the future now and it will make it happen. MARTIN: And youre saying that entertainment really does matter. So I thats when I learned about the work of Geena in her institute and how important onscreen representation was. And for a very brief time, the nature of that change is still up to us. . By Joel Horwood. I was very upset and angry at that happening to me. A really decent doc, but like 99% of the reviews here, I'm completely dumbfounded why they hired a MALE to direct this. And but I just assumed kids media would be gender-balanced, and wholesome, and good for you, and all that. DAVIS: In "A League Of Their Own," yeah. 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. From Thelma & Louise to A League of Their Own, the Oscar-winning actress Geena Davis made her name with her strong female characters. GROSS: Prevent that kind of behavior. That so it was already a conversation that started to happen when I start developing the film with my producing partner. . Production companies: CreativeChaos vmg, New Plot Films, US Release 2019. Presenting portraits of communities on the front lines, This Changes Everything is an epic attempt to re-imagine the vast challenge of climate change. JENNIFER LAWRENCE: Its our time to have wage equality once and for all and equal . You were working with Dustin Hoffman. And I was sure they must be right and waiting for this fabulous future that was coming. 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. And I'd be like, which part exactly? MARTIN: about women in Hollywood and the underrepresentation of women in Hollywood? Geena Davis is also an executive producer of the film. And then I had to play the best baseball player anyone has ever seen hold a bat. DAVIS: Hopefully not. 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. 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. GROSS: But you were with Sydney Pollack. GROSS: In "A League Of Their Own." And Im like, yay, I cant wait. 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. GROSS: Let down your hair, as you put it. to unsuccessfully sue Warner Bros. and Columbia Pictures for discrimination). This Changes Everything is, improbably, Kleins most optimistic book. Slovene 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. 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. So I decided I wanted to take up a sport in the real-life way and not the movie version. 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 I'd like to see if I could do that. And then Susan Sarandon comes out. They're both featured in the new documentary "This Changes Everything" about discrimination against women in front of and behind the camera in Hollywood. At the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival, the film was first runner-up for the People's Choice Award: Documentaries. DAVIS: Well, no, no. Polish And, you know, being harassed and all kinds of things going on, being not listened to, talked down to, all that stuff. DONAHUE: Hopefully not. DONAHUE: Sure. JOIN NOW. The EEOC functions in total confidentiality. And - but nobody, and least of all him, nobody ever said, you realize you don't have to come every day? 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. 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. 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. In 2004, she founded the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media. Croatian PBS is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. Chinese Simple And you say in the film that you were watching something with your daughter. Did you think of it as there not being enough roles for women in their 40s? The film is a Canada-United States coproduction. And that was an extraordinary triumph. So do you have any idea where things stand? Theres no one they can complain to. So I knew that we could invoke that law to be able to change things in a very significant way. And everything gets in the way of that, every possible thought you have, every different circumstance. Klein and those impassioned protesters provide something that has been in short supply in the predecessors Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. 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. You know, some shows are researched and all that and certainly harmless. Is that why because no studio heads appeared in this film because theyre so embarrassed? 2015, Documentary, 1h 29m. 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. And my friend and I acted out your trip. But so I think that will change and I think it will impact society, that life will imitate art. Director Avi Lewis Writer 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. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: They dont care that Im black. GROSS: Maria Giese, let me move on to you. MARTIN: Talk to me about the Geena Davis Institute which you founded years ago. 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. I didn't want to try any sports because I was - I call it physically shy. Bulgarian She's receiving an honorary Oscar this year, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, at a special ceremony in October. And this is according to the Center for the Study of Women and Television and Film in San Diego State University. Film schools are now half female. Spanish Suddenly, they could see what they were doing, and weve yet to leave any meeting where somebody doesnt say, you just changed my project. GROSS: But you're in your underwear. TV-PG. We were made to feel very dispensable. 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. 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 a little by little, I introduced them to a group of my female colleagues. This Changes Everything. 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. 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. Here it is. A right wing think tank provides its view that the climate change issue needs to be dealt with through market forces. And he just does it. A group of disillusioned young women have disappeared. And that's what I set my mind to do. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You directed an episode of it. Polish We'll be right back. Can you talk about that? Youll get much less salary because you guys dont really matter and well replace you if you have any complaints. And I was so shocked when my coach said after just a few months, well, now you've got to start competing. 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. Why dont things change? As defeated as one feels when you dont see a change happening, I really do think that it can and that it will. Change or be changed, but make no mistake, this changes everything.. OK. Let me just play a clip from him in the film. 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 . She founded an institute, the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media. Geena, I want to start with you. So thats why when it says 75 percent of women made this film, people actually clap at that line at the end. Co-Producers: Jessicya Materano, Robin Kelleher And that action alone sent the numbers skyrocketing from 0.5% to 16% in just 10 years from 1985 to 1995. So I never tried anything. Geena Davis is an actress who starred in such films as "A League Of Their Own" and "Thelma & Louise." Greek LA Times. 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. I think theres some backlash. Well, get her back. Nobody complained about anything because you felt that it would damage your career. Maria Giese is a director who felt shut out for being a woman. Which is why none of them appeared in this film? 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. Go behind the scenes of Netflix TV shows and movies, see what's coming soon and watch bonus videos on. You used to make a movie a year. This documentary takes a deep look at gender disparity in Hollywood through the eyes of well-known actresses and female filmmakers. This Changes Everything has been translated into 27 languages: Arabic Actress Geena Davis rallies Meryl Streep, Shonda Rhimes, Reese Witherspoon and others in this . UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I did. Buy now. When you have 150 men on set and one woman, how is that woman protected? Copyright 2019 NPR. 10 Video Games That Need a Live Action Adaptation, 2023's Most Anticipated Sequels, Prequels, and Spin-offs. And you try really hard to, like, throw him off of you. '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. We dont have to wait for things to turn around in real life. 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. There are going to be so many more movies with women starring and everything. This Changes Everything is a 2015 documentary film directed by Avi Lewis.It is based on the book This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate by Naomi Klein.. You know, they just determined to do it, and they're very creative and they make it happen. And so it's just a battle with yourself the whole time. No, I didn't think, oh, it's me, at all. DAVIS: Oh, no. Well, do they have any photos of her in a bathing suit? Several women serve as executive producers, including Davis.). Tweets by NaomiAKlein. This Changes Everything August 31, 2015 We're excited to share the official poster for This Changes Everything the documentary! GROSS: Did you think of it as discrimination against older women? Romanian DAVIS: Right. But were not hearing womens voices or seeing the stories told through the female gaze when there are so few female directors. This documentary takes a deep look at gender disparity in Hollywood through the eyes of well-known actresses and female filmmakers. What if confronting the climate crisis is the best chance we'll ever get to build a better world? Dutch What if confronting the climate crisis is the best chance well ever get to build a better world? For the first thing I showed her, there were profoundly more male characters than female, and it was aimed at two-year- olds. The most profound threat to humanity is the war our economic model is waging against life on earth. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I think they just dont like me. 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. So they send over a Victoria's Secret catalogue (laughter). Like competing - if you're nervous, your shot's going to be off. For more details, visit the official This Changes Everything website, where youll find more Press information and Endnotes. 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. And two and a half years later, I was a semifinalist for the Olympic trials. But as time went on and I became more empowered, I started really noticing. GROSS: And doesn't know where to put his eyes. Ukrainian. 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. For the rest of us, This Changes Everything will frustrate, enrage and maybe even inspire. 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. [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. GROSS: So you went to the ACLU, and then the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission became involved, too. I could do that too. GIESE: I first went to the EEOC in 2013. I get to have opinions, I get to be smart. Global Release 2020, 2023 Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media. JOIN NOW. The main thing that's very different is now it's completely OK to talk about this stuff. And this is a buddy movie that's a women's movie. I'm going to ask you to describe the premise. GROSS: This is FRESH AIR. MARTIN: Well, you do interview one executive, the head of FX, John Landgraf. 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 . Unlike many works about the climate crisis, this is not a film that tries to scare the audience into action: it aims to empower. Promotional materials, trailers & welcome video. The epitome of WTF? I think the big advantage was that people who make kids entertainment do it because they care about kids. 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. 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. 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. 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. 1 hr 30 min. KIMBERLY PIERCE, DIRECTOR, CARRIE: I was being talked to and treated and questioned constantly and indifferently. 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. So Geena, I think some people might hear that and go, Oh, thats too bad but why? Michael Mann tells Christiane Amanpour why we need to rethink what we eat and how we produce it. 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. ("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. And it hasnt changed in all that time. 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. AMANPOUR: Yes. MARTIN: To that point, heres a scene from the film which speaks with that with Kimberly Pierce, the director, and Chloe Grace Moretz. And so it was something they had no idea they were doing, and the data changed everything for them. About the author. 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. And I was - well, I was mostly thrilled that my first job was not playing, you know, a corpse in a morgue on a soap opera or something. It takes a bit of time for the documentary to find its groove. Geena Davis is also an executive producer of the film. 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. But on the other hand, I sort of felt like, well, this is what was supposed to happen. And Kim and I are sitting there going like, well, respectfully, I dont think you know what youre talking about. Original filename: Naomi Klein - This Changes Everything.pdf URL: https://pdf.yt/d/Skb-ch_k7psDm90Q AMANPOUR: Let me just give some of the statistics that you cite in the film. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Its one of the best things thats ever happened in my professional career. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Feud is so, so good. And it also struck a nerve that none of us expected. 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. 24 female police officers, firefighters, bodyguards, soldiers, athletes and stuntwomen team up by profession to compete for survival on a remote island. So when I got back from Cannes, I was represented at William Morris Agency, and basically nothing happened. [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.. Anyone who then told me or told any other journalist in the future, its too hard, no, its not. But I said, at some point, you got to get me into a showgirl costume because it's kind of a fantasy of mine to wear one of those things, you know, with a giant headdress and all that. You know, I mean, both are kind of unattainable. It was just like the way it was, and, you know, being sexy and all that kind of stuff. 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. 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. Forget everything you think you know about global warming. 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. What happened after that? She ends up shooting him, and then you both go on the lam because you feel like, who's going to believe you? 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. Being so tall, I just didn't want anybody to look at me, especially if I was going to be failing at a sport. And your role is as the entertainment director of a casino. GROSS: Geena Davis, Maria Giese, thank you both so much for talking with us. I felt its my duty as a feminist, male or otherwise. And then the second thing were unions. The catastrophic effects of climate change are viewed through the lens of those in the US northeast coast who suffered through Hurricane Sandy. Her work led to an ongoing EEOC, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, investigation into systemic discrimination against women directors, as well as an ACLU campaign against discrimination. Here it is. It looks like we don't have any synopsis for this title yet. The Geena Davis Institute is a nonprofit organization exempt from federal income tax under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. But when she got older and roles started to dry up, she realized how unempowered women were in Hollywood. VarietyMagazine, If you care about justice you must see this. But we were stunned at the reaction that was instant - cover of Time magazine and all that stuff. 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. . This is a rush transcript. Director Tom Donahue Stars Reese Witherspoon Mira Nair Can we play that? Italian Didnt seem to happen. It was my first audition, and they had called model agencies to say, send any models who can act for an audition. 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. You were attached to other projects. 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. Well, it meant a little ironically. And for me, the word feminist was a bad word in my house. Interwoven with these stories of struggle is Kleins narration, connecting the carbon in the air with the economic system that put it there. And a buddy movies are always men's movies. - three years and seven months going. It ultimately all worked out for me, but the likelihood of becoming a famous model was actually pretty slim, and I didn't. But that was my plan. MARTIN: You know one of the things that really fascinated me about the film is that you point out it wasnt always this way. JOHN LANDGRAF, HEAD, FX: I had this unconscious bias that we would have to be making sacrifices to hire people with less experience. Danish The realization that a solution is possible, well, that changes everything So its kind of working. . She had to fight really hard to get them to put it on the air. Its just very elevated because its in the entertainment world. 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. Things were looking good for you after film school. This Changes Everything. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at www.npr.org for further information. Hosting a Screening (note that licensing and contact info in this document are out of date / no longer active) Faith screening guide. Was that because you thought that was the way you could break in? And why does that matter? This Changes Everything is a 2018 American documentary film, directed by Tom Donahue. So I think that's a big change that's happened. Film Review: 'This Changes Everything' Before the #MeToo movement began, director Tom Donahue began assembling a documentary about gender inequality in Hollywood. Written with an elegant blend of science, statistics, field reports and personal insight, it does not paralyze but buoys the reader. I did get work, and it was through my model agency that I got my first acting job. 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. They're both featured in the new documentary "This Changes Everything," about the campaign for more representation of women in front of and behind the camera in movies and TV. So there's no way for us to really know where the investigation is, even though it's now, oh - what? Thats the problem. And we started to have meetings with them. And that, for me, became a battle worth fighting for. And then I saw it everywhere. 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