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. Russian 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. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Feud is so, so good. Most importantly, the film seeks pathways and solutions from within and outside the industry, and around the world. that women are now dominating that field because we just saw it on T.V. And then after about a year and a half, they told me they were going to pursue it. They're both featured in the new documentary "This Changes Everything" about discrimination against women in front of and behind the camera in Hollywood. Transcript A new documentary explores how women in Hollywood are pushing for more representation in front of and behind the camera. You hear so many women speaking up when they encounter injustice and openly talking about it. The film presents seven portraits of communities on the front lines, from Montana's Powder River Basin to the Alberta Tar Sands, from the coast of South India to Beijing and beyond. I very much expected that that would not be the case. 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. But on the other hand, I sort of felt like, well, this is what was supposed to happen. makes a muscular case for global warming as the defining, cross-sectional issue of our era., [A]robust new polemic . No, I didn't think, oh, it's me, at all. Copy may not be in its final form. 56%. MARTIN: But there are a number of women who are interviewed in this film whose careers have been damaged by speaking out. Book & Film Study Guide. The coming of sound meant they needed big capital investment. At the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival, the film was first runner-up for the People's Choice Award: Documentaries. And so I thought, this is an enormous problem if we are training kids from the beginning that girls are second-class citizens. SCREENING GUIDES. But how can you change the world if you've taken yourself out of it? DONAHUE: Sure. 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. 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. . So and it wasnt really until after Me Too and all that happened that we all realized, this is different now. And why does that matter? So do you have any idea where things stand? GROSS: So part of your work was modeling for Victoria's Secret. Will this film change everything? You say in almost 100 years, only one woman has won an academy award for best director. So I had been very unathletic as a kid. LA Times. And I was like, you know, I was a huge fan of "GLOW" and very much wanted to do it. Maybe they just thought I really wanted to, that I wanted to be such a student of film that that was my goal. 1 hr 30 min. GIESE: Well, I understood very quickly that the numbers in and of themselves inferred violations of Title VII. 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. This Changes Everything. Against the backdrop of Greece in crisis, a powerful social movement rises. Theyll just get somebody else. Its always been that way. So Geena, will you just tell us what the title is referring to? Catalan And, you know, being harassed and all kinds of things going on, being not listened to, talked down to, all that stuff. MARTIN: Do you think its because your initial focus was on kids television? 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. MARTIN: So Geena, how do you stay in it though? And I was so shocked when my coach said after just a few months, well, now you've got to start competing. DAVIS: Well, it did in a way. And then I had to play the best baseball player anyone has ever seen hold a bat. It was night and day, where before, they might say, hey, "Beetlejuice" or something. Harvey Weinstein, of course, comes to mind. Catalan In the directors guild, there were only two women I think up until the 1960s who were members of the union. You had a small role. Like competing - if you're nervous, your shot's going to be off. DAVIS: In "A League Of Their Own," yeah. Tomatometer 18 Reviews. I think my peers and I were always operating under the assumption that you should never complain about anything. And you say in the film that you were watching something with your daughter. Maria Giese is a director who felt shut out for being a woman. 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. You were attached to other projects. 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. Theres a lot of talk about change and theres a lot more content being made but a lot of the diversity that happens in content is happening at the lower pay levels. AMANPOUR: Let me just give some of the statistics that you cite in the film. MARTIN: So you can see it with kids entertainment? GROSS: But you're in your underwear. The Book, Documentary & Impact Project The numbers have obviously not improved for decades. 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. And but I just assumed kids media would be gender-balanced, and wholesome, and good for you, and all that. . I felt its my duty as a feminist, male or otherwise. JOIN NOW. This Changes Everything. And if you're just joining us, my guest is actor Geena Davis and director Maria Giese. DAVIS: Not at all. Produced by: Ilan Arboleda, Kerianne Flynn, Tom Donahue Co-Producers: Jessicya Materano, Robin Kelleher 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. MARTIN: Did you think it was as bad as it is? MARTIN: In the age of silent films, women directed a lot of films. 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. GROSS: And you even competed to be on the Olympic archery team. 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. 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. Geena Davis is also an executive producer of the film. Geena Davis is an actress who starred in such films as "A League Of Their Own" and "Thelma & Louise." I mean you know. In this part of the interview, I'm going to talk more with Davis about her own movie career. How did you take up archery? Dutch I was very upset and angry at that happening to me. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There is nothing funny here. 10 Video Games That Need a Live Action Adaptation, 2023's Most Anticipated Sequels, Prequels, and Spin-offs. 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. Maria Giese is a director who felt shut out of directing because she's a woman. Its not going to benefit you. Actress Geena Davis rallies Meryl Streep, Shonda Rhimes, Reese Witherspoon and others in this . Actress Geena Davis rallies Meryl Streep, Shonda Rhimes, Reese Witherspoon and others in this powerful documentary. She's got a handgun, pulls it on him, asks him to apologize. GROSS: And doesn't know where to put his eyes. DAVIS: Well, I definitely see a big shift happening in Hollywood in the past couple of years since #MeToo and Time's Up. GROSS: Maria Giese, let me move on to you. Kleinexposes the myths that are clouding the climate debate. Director Tom Donahue Stars Reese Witherspoon Mira Nair But the documentary "This Changes Everything" synthesizes all that data along with interviews from a truly mind-boggling array of A-listers both in front of and behind the camera to create a damning portrait of Hollywood's systematic sexism and discrimination. 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. And it also struck a nerve that none of us expected. When, for instance, in 2017 I think, female-led films made 38 percent more money at the Box Office than male-led films. Swedish Yeah. 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. Geena, I want to start with you. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. And that, for me, became a battle worth fighting for. She founded an institute, the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media. I showed her, you know, G-rated videos and little kids movies and TV shows - and, you know, obviously, there's some exceptions to that. GROSS: Did you think of it as discrimination against older women? We have also been told that humanity is too greedy and selfish to rise to this challenge. A right wing think tank provides its view that the climate change issue needs to be dealt with through market forces. . This documentary takes a deep look at gender disparity in Hollywood through the eyes of well-known actresses and female filmmakers. And I was kind of good at all of it. but like a place where we actually want to live And I could see that I was not going to make any headway with them. LANDGRAF: And Im here to say its there. But you could, by answering its call to action. Bring me my tiny violin. Copyright 2019 NPR. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Everyone, listen up, please. Kleins urgency and outrage is balanced by meticulous documentation and passionate argument. A star-studded documentary about gender inequality in film and TV is equal parts history lesson and constructive criticism. I'm Terry Gross. And your role is as the entertainment director of a casino. She's best known for her starring roles in "Thelma & Louise," "A League Of Their Own," and "Beetlejuice." Original filename: Naomi Klein - This Changes Everything.pdf URL: https://pdf.yt/d/Skb-ch_k7psDm90Q 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. DAVIS: Oh, so - gosh. Forget everything you think you know about global warming. And this is in every sector of society, its the same story. PBS is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. 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. This sudden change in how people reacted when they recognized me was very, very pronounced. JOHN LANDGRAF, HEAD, FX: I had this unconscious bias that we would have to be making sacrifices to hire people with less experience. He said no, that's the whole point is competing. GROSS: So what did you learn being on set? And that was an extraordinary triumph. So I knew that we could invoke that law to be able to change things in a very significant way. MARTIN: Well, you do interview one executive, the head of FX, John Landgraf. SANDRA OH: Shonda was able to make half of her cast not white. 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. - three years and seven months going. It often seems that these worlds are completely . But as time went on and I became more empowered, I started really noticing. TAX ID# 86-1943473, Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, PO Box 9615, Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91701. DAVIS: I think partly, back when I started, I wasnt thinking about that, even. Globe & Mail Audience Score 100+ Ratings. GROSS: Geena Davis, Maria Giese, thank you both so much for talking with us. About the author. I'm Terry Gross. And her actions led to an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission investigation into systemic discrimination against women directors. GIESE: So in - five months after they received that letter from the ACLU, they began their investigation. DAVIS: Well, no, no. So its kind of working. Can we play that? . GROSS: This is the equal opportunity law. Well, Tom, talk a little about what the problem is if you would. This documentary takes a deep look at gender disparity in Hollywood through the eyes of well-known actresses and female filmmakers. But it was television that showed me there it was another way, and it was a show called MASH. 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: 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. Davis and director Maria Giese discuss the dramatic disparities on screen. namely, a modicum of hope for the future . As defeated as one feels when you dont see a change happening, I really do think that it can and that it will. That was the first time where I was ever like, I guess, men dont see us women equal in this industry. -Alice Walker, author and activist, Purposely unsettling Ultimately encouraging 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. 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. Like why do I care? And womens films do make more money and have, I think, over the last three years. And she doesnt know its her period because she had never been taught that by her mother. GROSS: And so it's a kind of - I think at the time, people were comparing it to Butch Cassidy. Danish 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. My understanding is they don't make their investigation public. LANDGRAF: The minute we open our door and we say, come express it here, the work got better. Here it is. Actress Geena Davis rallies Meryl Streep, Shonda Rhimes, Reese Witherspoon and others in this . DONAHUE: Well, two things. DONAHUE: I started the film a year before I actually asked Geena to come on board. She ends up shooting him, and then you both go on the lam because you feel like, who's going to believe you? It's really fun and incredibly challenging. Unions did not allow women because putting women in the unions meant lower pay and lower prestige. You know, I mean, both are kind of unattainable. 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 . Klein meticulously builds the case for how massively reducing our greenhouse emissions is our best chance to simultaneously reduce gaping inequalities, re-imagine our broken democracies, and rebuild our gutted local economies. So you started your career as a model. And a buddy movies are always men's movies. 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. And there is also no human resources department that these women can go to. Naomi Kleins This Changes Everything is a ground-breaking work on how climate change changes everything. 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. JENNIFER LAWRENCE: Its our time to have wage equality once and for all and equal . Kumi Naidoo,Former Director at Greenpeace International, Genuinely moving 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? This Changes Everything. - because it was a big hit. Which is why none of them appeared in this film? 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. -Entertainment Weekly Provocative, compelling, and accessible to even the most climate-fatigued viewers,This Changes Everythingwill leave you refreshed and inspired, reflecting on the ties between us, the kind of lives we really want, and why the climate crisis is at the centre of it all. And very quickly, the coaches were saying, you know, you have a lot of untapped athletic ability. And I just want an excuse to be able to do that (laughter). Michael Mann tells Christiane Amanpour why we need to rethink what we eat and how we produce it. And, you know, that's obviously an option that everybody can take. 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. I fear the message may continue to elude those who need to hear it the most. Davis and director Maria Giese discuss the dramatic. Korean . Italian I haven't really ever had to describe what it's about. I decided that I would try becoming a model first because, at that time, Christie Brinkley and Lauren Hutton were being offered parts in movies. This is a rush transcript. The two opposing viewpoints can be seen in two western society examples, the first concerning the Alberta oil sands, and the second fossil fuel energy production and transportation in what is traditional Montana farmland. CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR: Now, whether in politics or science or any other field, one thing is for sure, we need more women now. You were signed to a big agency. He's just decided that that's what he's going to do. So I knew the way to move the numbers and to make real significant change was through legal action. A film that brings our peril into focus and what we might learn from despair. OK. Let me just play a clip from him in the film. German The documentary This Changes Everything gives audiences a look at how the tropes of "the girlfriend," the "useless chick," and the beauty who needs to "be saved" are still alive and well. MARTIN: But Geena, this has to have happened to you throughout your career? UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: When I called to say we were going to greenlight it, the male executive on the other end of the line literally hung up on me. 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. Go behind the scenes of Netflix TV shows and movies, see what's coming soon and watch bonus videos on. Ukrainian, Arabic So I started making this movie. So I never thought about it again. And you wouldnt know it because of how it turns out, four percent post his school. And so obviously you only come when you're shooting, but I came every day at the beginning of the day (laughter) and grabbed my chair and put it next to Sydney and sat next to him all day, every day, making the movie. Lithuanian Your AMC Ticket Confirmation# can be found in your order confirmation email. 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 . Croatian VarietyMagazine, If you care about justice you must see this. Hilary Weston Writers Trust Prize for Nonfiction. DAVIS: Well, I was astounded that it happened. We also heard from director Maria Giese, who's also featured in the film "This Changes Everything." Thelma & Louise was supposed to have done it. DAVIS: It did well. This Changes Everything Review: Hollywoods Men, Called to Action, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/08/movies/this-changes-everything-review.html. 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. And I got the part. 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.