Swedish And so it kind of made sense in that way. Look at what FX did. GIESE: Well, I understood very quickly that the numbers in and of themselves inferred violations of Title VII. DAVIS: In "A League Of Their Own," yeah. Director Tom Donahue Stars Reese Witherspoon Mira Nair I felt very unhappy with having that sort of imposed on me by other people. And I was like, you know, I was a huge fan of "GLOW" and very much wanted to do it. 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. Croatian As the staggering statistics on gender parity continue to demonstrate, though, not much has changed. namely, a modicum of hope for the future So I figured, well, I mean, what were the odds anyway I was going to be in a Sydney Pollack movie with Dustin Hoffman? Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at www.npr.org for further information. 10 Video Games That Need a Live Action Adaptation, 2023's Most Anticipated Sequels, Prequels, and Spin-offs. It looks like we don't have any synopsis for this title yet. Oh, we forgot. There's far fewer movies with a female lead character. So do you have any idea where things stand? Copyright 2019 NPR. And but I just assumed kids media would be gender-balanced, and wholesome, and good for you, and all that. So I started making this movie. So I had been very unathletic as a kid. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I was very lucky because Greys Anatomy was developed under the network presence. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I did. So when I got back from Cannes, I was represented at William Morris Agency, and basically nothing happened. Thelma & Louise was supposed to have done it. 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. Progress will happen when men take a stand, an emphatic Meryl Streep says. . GROSS: My guests are actor Geena Davis and director Maria Giese. 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. Like why do I care? DONAHUE: I started the film a year before I actually asked Geena to come on board. You say in almost 100 years, only one woman has won an academy award for best director. Whats your first name? 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. DAVIS: Exactly. It was just like the way it was, and, you know, being sexy and all that kind of stuff. -Entertainment Weekly Geena Davis is also an executive producer of the film. Ukrainian. 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. And a little by little, I introduced them to a group of my female colleagues. You go out to the parking lot with him, and he starts to rape you. Unions did not allow women because putting women in the unions meant lower pay and lower prestige. And I was so shocked when my coach said after just a few months, well, now you've got to start competing. In 2004, she founded the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media to get the actual data comparing the number and types of male and female roles and to use that data to convince the industry of the need for change. So I'm wondering if you think it's having that kind of effect. Director Avi Lewis Writer And it's a buddy movie. Copy may not be in its final form. Now, this changes everything. Slovene She had to fight really hard to get them to put it on the air. - because it was a big hit. But were not hearing womens voices or seeing the stories told through the female gaze when there are so few female directors. 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.. MARTIN: Really? GROSS: Yeah. 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. So why does the behind the camera representation matter so much? And this is according to the Center for the Study of Women and Television and Film in San Diego State University. 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 the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media has done a lot of research on the numbers. GROSS: Yes, you're not fazed by seeing Dustin Hoffman walk in because you think he's really a woman. 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 . GROSS: How did you decide to create your institute? We also heard from director Maria Giese, who's also featured in the film "This Changes Everything." And so it was something they had no idea they were doing, and the data changed everything for them. Were they getting work? DAVIS: Right. JOIN NOW. GROSS: Maria Giese, let me move on to you. And I think the first thing to change will be on screen. Presenting portraits of communities on the front lines, This Changes Everything is an epic attempt to re-imagine the vast challenge of climate change. I was very upset and angry at that happening to me. My understanding is they don't make their investigation public. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. Still. He said no, that's the whole point is competing. That's why we've added a new "Diverse Representations" section to our reviews that will be rolling out on an ongoing basis. LANDGRAF: The minute we open our door and we say, come express it here, the work got better. Not rated. 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. When, for instance, in 2017 I think, female-led films made 38 percent more money at the Box Office than male-led films. Bosnian I get to have opinions, I get to be smart. [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. Naomi Kleins This Changes Everything is a ground-breaking work on how climate change changes everything. Did you think of it as there not being enough roles for women in their 40s? 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. Your first movie role, "Tootsie," you're in your underwear in the film. 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. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Its one of the best things thats ever happened in my professional career. And I was counting on my hands as I held her in my lap, and it was horrifying, and I was absolutely stunned. Written with an elegant blend of science, statistics, field reports and personal insight, it does not paralyze but buoys the reader. Portuguese Several women serve as executive producers, including Davis.). So they send over a Victoria's Secret catalogue (laughter). And for me, it was no big deal to want to take the man until here and try to tell this story. And I'm like, oh, my God, no. Things were looking good for you after film school. So and it wasnt really until after Me Too and all that happened that we all realized, this is different now. MARTIN: So the title of the film, we start with that, This Changes Everything. This is something that you say in the film. I mean you know. 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. 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. 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. Like competing - if you're nervous, your shot's going to be off. Its not a spoiler to say that the documentary concludes with a call to action aimed squarely at (predominantly male) studio heads, pointing to the recent commitment to inclusive hiring by John Landgraf, the chief executive of the FX Networks, as an example of what real action can look like. Turkish Didnt seem to happen. A determined detective continues his search for the truth behind Asia's largest drug organization and its elusive boss he has unfinished business with. 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. Buy now. 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. Dutch No, I didn't think, oh, it's me, at all. Women are socialized to go along with the dominant patriarch. A work of startling force, exhaustive reporting, and telling anecdote . 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. Watch all you want. By what name was This Changes Everything (2015) officially released in India in English? I felt its my duty as a feminist, male or otherwise. But when she got older and roles started to dry up, she realized how unempowered women were in Hollywood. MARTIN: But there are a number of women who are interviewed in this film whose careers have been damaged by speaking out. But for the most part, I saw appalling gender imbalance. Tomatometer 18 Reviews. 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. 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. A film that brings our peril into focus and what we might learn from despair. MICHEL MARTIN, CONTRIBUTOR: Geena Davis, Tom Donahue, thank you so much for talking to us. But as time went on and I became more empowered, I started really noticing. And for me, the word feminist was a bad word in my house. . . I knew I wanted to be in movies, as opposed to theater. I think the big advantage was that people who make kids entertainment do it because they care about kids. And they got really excited. And Im like, yay, I cant wait. And I could see that I was not going to make any headway with them. Because the next movie somebody makes could be gender-balanced. MARTIN: Geena Davis, Tom Donahue, thank you so much for talking to us. 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. 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. 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. It often seems that these worlds are completely . 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. Theres no one they can complain to. She ends up shooting him, and then you both go on the lam because you feel like, who's going to believe you? MARTIN: You make the connection in the film that its not just about, you know, the job, its the conditions at the job, that it is directly connected to these vicious examples of sexual harassment and abuse that women have experienced that have now come to the fore. DAVIS: Absolutely, which is fantastic. DONAHUE: Sure. DONAHUE: Well, two things. Hosting a Screening (note that licensing and contact info in this document are out of date / no longer active) Faith screening guide. 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. . 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. And so I never asked any questions, and I didn't know that you didn't have to come every day. And I went, and they said, wear a bathing suit under your clothes because if you do well at the reading, they'll ask to see you in your bathing suit. Well, do they have any photos of her in a bathing suit? GROSS: This is FRESH AIR. So it was so horrifying to me that we would be doing this to kids that I decided I had to try to do something. Was it a centering thing for you - focus? Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. Italian, Japanese Produced with New Plot Films in association with the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, David Yurman, and . If she can see it, she can be it. Terms Privacy Policy For Our Members Access, All rights reserved. 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. What were you looking for and what did you come away with? Downloads only available on ad-free plans. Well, we call the film This Changes Everything, because its about kind of why that doesnt happen. On TV, you have women like Shonda Rhimes, Ava DuVernay, who's also in movies, and Reese Witherspoon not only doing shows that have women in them but also - certainly with Ava DuVernay, she makes a point of hiring women directors and often women directors of color for her series "Queen Sugar." It will be on air. But it didnt take her long to realize that she was the exception and not the rule. MARTIN: Why do you think that was the click moment for you? And her actions led to an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission investigation into systemic discrimination against women directors. For the first thing I showed her, there were profoundly more male characters than female, and it was aimed at two-year- olds. I wasnt thinking, this is so unfair. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Everyone, listen up, please. GROSS: And you also are an archer - like bow and arrow archery. GROSS: But you were with Sydney Pollack. I very much expected that that would not be the case. So theres something really deep and systemic going on. A star-studded documentary about gender inequality in film and TV is equal parts history lesson and constructive criticism. Danish The epitome of WTF? Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media is not a production company or talent agency.The organization does not solicit or accept autograph requests, manuscripts, project ideas, or other similar materials.If any such information is sent to us, we will return the material unread. It was a small budget, and we hoped somebody would see it and not object to the ending. After the release of This Changes Everything book and film, Naomi went on a sold out tour to speak to audiences worldwide. JOHN LANDGRAF, HEAD, FX: I had this unconscious bias that we would have to be making sacrifices to hire people with less experience. 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). Norwegian 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. This Changes Everything August 31, 2015 We're excited to share the official poster for This Changes Everything the documentary! DONAHUE: So the cheaper shows on Netflix and Hulu. And so that was really fun. DAVIS: I think partly, back when I started, I wasnt thinking about that, even. It takes an incisive look at the history, empirical evidence, and systemic forces that foster gender discrimination and thus reinforce disparity in our culture. . that women are now dominating that field because we just saw it on T.V. GROSS: So the EEOC has been conducting an investigation into systemic discrimination against women directors. I fear the message may continue to elude those who need to hear it the most. And womens films do make more money and have, I think, over the last three years. 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. Romanian Tom Donahue's documentary 'This Changes Everything' examines efforts from within Hollywood to redress the gender imbalance and features a large roster of big-name interviewees, from Anita Hill. And there is also no human resources department that these women can go to. 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