And the ending's kind of similar, where, you know, they kind of ride off a cliff, and you drive off a cliff. trailer <<7E16516DA15B497BAB3561E27D065FDD>]/Prev 143654>> startxref 0 %%EOF 110 0 obj <>stream Producers: Ilan Arboleda, Kerianne Flynn, Tom Donahue Featuring a strong, eclectic and impressively starry roster of women working in front of and behind the camera, This Changes Everything offers up a handy-dandy, quickfire history lesson that points out how, for generations, sexism and prejudice in the entertainment industry has shut out and silenced filmmakers who arent straight white men. And then I had to play the best baseball player anyone has ever seen hold a bat. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You directed an episode of it. She braids together the science, psychology, geopolitics, economics, ethics and activism that shape the climate question. GROSS: A battle with yourself to not battle with yourself. Ukrainian. And I saw the director was a white male. So I never thought about it again. GROSS: Yes, you're not fazed by seeing Dustin Hoffman walk in because you think he's really a woman. MARTIN: Did you think it was as bad as it is? The Geena Davis Institute is a nonprofit organization exempt from federal income tax under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. And I'd like to see if I could do that. DONAHUE: Sure. DONAHUE: I started the film a year before I actually asked Geena to come on board. $2.99 HD . JOIN NOW. DAVIS: It was very specific, actually. So they send over a Victoria's Secret catalogue (laughter). DAVIS: Well, it did in a way. The women have guns. Russian Based on a true story. They could say, what was I doing? He said no, that's the whole point is competing. 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 . So sue me.) And yet the last 10 minutes of the film seem to dispense exactly that same kind of this-time-will-be-different optimism. MARIA GIESE: My first feature film directing job out of graduate film school was in England, not in the United States. So when I got back from Cannes, I was represented at William Morris Agency, and basically nothing happened. GROSS: Geena Davis, let me bring you back into the conversation. 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. Tom, do you want to add to that? 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. Executive producers: Geena Davis, Regina K. Scully, Ku-ling Yurman, Madeline Di Nonno, Steve Edwards, Jennie Peters, Simone Pero, Patty Casby GROSS: The one with the feathers and DAVIS: The one with the feathers and rhinestones? And I also expected it to be not true anymore by the time I would get to that age. GROSS: But you were with Sydney Pollack. 0000003718 00000 n Italian, Japanese So I knew the way to move the numbers and to make real significant change was through legal action. Theres no one they can complain to. Young Queen Charlotte's marriage to King George of England sparks an epic love story and transforms high society in this "Bridgerton" universe prequel. No, I didn't think, oh, it's me, at all. . DONAHUE: Its funny. 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. And this guy on the show named Alan Alda, who I was learning everything about. Danish Against the backdrop of Greece in crisis, a powerful social movement rises. Before that, she was the film critic for The Associated Press for nearly 15 years and co-hosted the public television series "Ebert Presents At the Movies" opposite Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, with Roger Ebert serving as managing editor. MARTIN: In the age of silent films, women directed a lot of films. 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. CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR: Now, whether in politics or science or any other field, one thing is for sure, we need more women now. And for me, it was no big deal to want to take the man until here and try to tell this story. Climate change isnt just another issue to be neatly filed between taxes and health care. 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. Slovene As defeated as one feels when you dont see a change happening, I really do think that it can and that it will. With: Geena Davis, Meryl Streep, Chlo Grace Moretz, Yara Shahidi, Natalie Portman, Taraji P. Henson, Reese Witherspoon, Cate Blanchett, Jill Soloway, Shonda Rhimes, Alan Alda, Sandra Oh, Anita Hill, Jessica Chastain, Rose McGowan, Judd Apatow, Rosario Dawson, Maria Geise, Amandla Stenberg, Maureen Ryan . You say in almost 100 years, only one woman has won an academy award for best director. Sign in to rate and Watchlist for personalized recommendations. 0000010605 00000 n Of the top 100 grossing films of 2017, male-lead characters received twice as much screen time as female leads. DAVIS: First of all, for the simple fact of fairness, that women deserve to be in half of the positions, you know, and have leadership roles and also be the grip and be on the crew and, you know, use their [13:45:00] talents. What if confronting the climate crisis is the best chance we'll ever get to build a better world? I think the big advantage was that people who make kids entertainment do it because they care about kids. %PDF-1.5 % Its not going to benefit you. makes a muscular case for global warming as the defining, cross-sectional issue of our era., [A]robust new polemic . 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 . My guest Geena Davis starred in two movies about female empowerment - "Thelma & Louise" and "A League Of Their Own." And I couldn't get the numbers on women in commercials, which is the most lucrative category of directing, but I spoke to some big executives in the commercial world who told me that the number was less than 1%. You putting men in charge basically driving women and people of color out. 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 then I saw it everywhere. DAVIS: Well, I was astounded that it happened. But as time went on and I became more empowered, I started really noticing. Young Queen Charlotte's marriage to King George of England sparks an epic love story and transforms high society in this "Bridgerton" universe prequel. So its kind of working. 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. Film Review: 'This Changes Everything' Before the #MeToo movement began, director Tom Donahue began assembling a documentary about gender inequality in Hollywood. They're both featured in the new documentary about that campaign called "This Changes Everything.". Yeah. Was that because you thought that was the way you could break in? I'm going to ask you to describe the premise. So thats why when it says 75 percent of women made this film, people actually clap at that line at the end. Actress Geena Davis rallies Meryl Streep, Shonda Rhimes, Reese Witherspoon and others in this . 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. I mean dont you just want to throw your shoes at the screen? You were attached to other projects. Filmed over 211 shoot days in nine countries and five continents over four years, This Changes Everything is an epic attempt to re-imagine the vast challenge of climate change. So what impact do you think it had both on audiences but also on Hollywood? What happened after that? And, of course, it's all a joke. Addeddate 2014-09-21 09:00:08 Identifier pdfy-Skb-ch_k7psDm90Q Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t1mh0f786 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 9.0 Ppi 300 Scanner Internet Archive Python library 0.6.3 There are some tonal problems here, particularly around the way the film tends to homogenize very disparate views and opinions into one sweet, easily digestible polemical smoothie. 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. watch "This Changes Everything" streaming on Netflix, Hoopla, Netflix basic with Ads. a scene from This Changes Everything, the documentary. Bring me my tiny violin. And for a very brief time, the nature of that change is still up to us. Dutch GROSS: So the EEOC has been conducting an investigation into systemic discrimination against women directors. I think my peers and I were always operating under the assumption that you should never complain about anything. o Ground truth model: analysis of the book transcript and documentary transcript o Change assessment: data collection and analysis after releasing the book and . 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. The most profound threat to humanity is the war our economic model is waging against life on earth. You know, some shows are researched and all that and certainly harmless. 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. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There is nothing funny here. "This Changes Everything" tries to get its arms around a lot, from appalling anecdotes of abhorrent behavior to deep historical context from the silent era to the modern-day repercussions of the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements. Japanese Good Deed Entertainment (Theatrical Premiere), Starz (Broadcast), VOD, TVOD. Thats the problem. Bosnian And they didn't ask - after I read the part, they didn't ask to see my bathing suit. 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. Kimberly Peirce talks about how it took her nine years to make her second feature after her critically acclaimed debut, Boys Dont Cry, which earned Hilary Swank a best-actress Oscar. Polish Actress Geena Davis rallies Meryl Streep, Shonda Rhimes, Reese Witherspoon and others in this powerful documentary. We were made to feel very dispensable. To have these conversations with men, youre saying like, well, I dont think you should depict it that way and I think you should depict it this way. AMANPOUR: Let me just give some of the statistics that you cite in the film. She had to fight really hard to get them to put it on the air. Naomi Kleins fourth book, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate was published in September 2014 and was an instant New York Times and international bestseller. GROSS: This is the equal opportunity law. Advertisement. Italian And Im like, yay, I cant wait. makes a muscular case for global warming as the defining, cross-sectional issue of our era. 0000005443 00000 n And I'm like, oh, my God, no. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. 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. The documentary Half the Picture, directed by Amy Adrion and which premiered at Sundance earlier this year, overlaps considerably in terms of subject matter (and also subjects themselves, with quite a few interviewees present in both films), but it leaves a stronger impression that there is a plurality of viewpoints out there, not all of them in sisterly agreement. . French 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. Told first-hand by some of Hollywood's 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. An investigative look and analysis of gender disparity in Hollywood, featuring accounts from well-known actors, executives and artists in the Industry. A tragic accident leaves an ambitious . . GROSS: And you also are an archer - like bow and arrow archery. So they were driven out of the unions. 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. As always, its a story eminently worth telling, especially for the benefit of younger generations whose exposure to feminism may have started with buying a ticket to Wonder Woman last year. GEENA DAVIS: Well, it was pretty dramatic. DAVIS: Right. A new nurse at a hospital begins to suspect her colleague's desire for attention may be tied to a series of patient deaths. Hilary Weston Writers Trust Prize for Nonfiction. You go out to the parking lot with him, and he starts to rape you. Can we pull off these changes in time? Last year, 92 percent of the directors who made the top 250 domestic movies were male. DONAHUE: So the cheaper shows on Netflix and Hulu. Russian She speaks candidly about the way shes been depicted on screen, how she and many others thought the revolutionary Thelma & Louise would change everything (hence the title) back in 1991, and the research shes done on the portrayal of women in childrens programming through her Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media. Which is why none of them appeared in this film? Dutch 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. And so it was something they had no idea they were doing, and the data changed everything for them. GROSS: So part of your work was modeling for Victoria's Secret. 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, the Leila and Mickey Straus Family Charitable Trust, Mark J. Blechner, Seton J. Melvin, Bernard and Denise Schwartz, Koo and Patricia Yuen, Barbara Hope Zuckerberg, Jeffrey Katz and Beth Rogers, the Filomen M. DAgostino Foundation, Josh Weston and. This is FRESH AIR. All Rights Reserved. We dont have to wait for things to turn around in real life. So at 41, I took it up and then became absolutely obsessed, as I do with things. So I decided I wanted to take up a sport in the real-life way and not the movie version. He's got you pinned against a car. We're. This film is about gender inequality in the TV and movie industry and they couldn't hire a woman to direct this?! The title of the doc actually refers to the many false dawns of hope, for example after the surprise success of Thelma & Louise (1991), which observers at the time took to augur impending change. . Running time: 1 hour 36 minutes. I knew I wanted to be in movies, as opposed to theater. But I loved it. Inspired by Naomi Klein's international non-fiction bestseller This Changes Everything, the film presents seven . DAVIS: Well, no, no. We can talk about it and everybody is talking about it, you know. DAVIS: In "A League Of Their Own," yeah. GROSS: came into play here, too, because there's more of you for Dustin Hoffman to be fazed by when he walks in. Is that why because no studio heads appeared in this film because theyre so embarrassed? What Shows Have Been Renewed or Canceled. 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. The credits mention that 75 percent of the crew working on the film was female, but it sort of seems like a no-brainer to have a woman direct the movie about the fact that women dont direct enough movies. And this is a buddy movie that's a women's movie. Was it a centering thing for you - focus? GEENA DAVIS, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER, THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING: Thank you. Chinese Complex MARTIN: You know one of the things that really fascinated me about the film is that you point out it wasnt always this way. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Feud is so, so good. But on the other hand, I sort of felt like, well, this is what was supposed to happen. A book, film and engagement project about why the climate crisis is the best opportunity we've ever had to build a better world. And they started to reach out to interview many, many women, as many women directors as they could. Where's her bathing suit stuff? And there's a scene where you come out in - why don't you describe the costume. Theres a whole side trip to a cinema in Stockholm that only shows movies that have passed the Bechdel testi.e., does it feature two female characters talking about something other than a man?which is fun, but feels wedged-in.
