Not rated. DONAHUE: Sure. You know, I mean, both are kind of unattainable. Watch This Changes Everything: Men Don't See Us Women Equal. (Laughter). And so I thought, this is an enormous problem if we are training kids from the beginning that girls are second-class citizens. 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 then Susan Sarandon comes out. Film schools are now half female. MARTIN: Have you felt your career jeopardized by your unspokeness about this? And this guy on the show named Alan Alda, who I was learning everything about. A film that brings our peril into focus and what we might learn from despair. From Thelma & Louise to A League of Their Own, the Oscar-winning actress Geena Davis made her name with her strong female characters. She is an executive producer of and is featured in the new documentary "This Changes Everything," about how women in Hollywood are pushing for more representation in front of and behind the camera. GROSS: Maria Giese, let me move on to you. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You directed an episode of it. Theres no one they can complain to. GROSS: In "A League Of Their Own." Russian Produced with New Plot Films in association with the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, David Yurman, and . And when we looked at - when we first looked at TV shows, kids - the ratio of male to female characters on kids programs, specifically made for them, had the worst ratio of male to female characters. 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. MARTIN: Really? You can pick up a lot on a set. Will this film change everything? DAVIS: Well, no, no. but like a place where we actually want to live And so it's just a battle with yourself the whole time. GROSS: What did you like about archery? 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. 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. DAVIS: Well, thats what I was saying about earlier, it is a different time now that you actually can talk about these things and not suffer repercussions. Or did you think, oh, it's me - no one wants me anymore? I could do that too. Watch all you want. Geena Davis and Maria Giese, welcome to FRESH AIR. And I learned that he was he called himself a feminist. But it's profoundly not the case right now. What is the connection? And for me, the word feminist was a bad word in my house. So theres something really deep and systemic going on. Against the backdrop of Greece in crisis, a powerful social movement rises. And it hasnt changed in all that time. . And this is according to the Center for the Study of Women and Television and Film in San Diego State University. Directed by Avi Lewis Transcript A new documentary explores how women in Hollywood are pushing for more representation in front of and behind the camera. GROSS: So the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media has done a lot of research on the numbers. And but I just assumed kids media would be gender-balanced, and wholesome, and good for you, and all that. This Changes Everything Directed by: Tom Donahue Produced by: Ilan Arboleda, Kerianne Flynn, Tom Donahue Executive Producers: Geena Davis, Steve Edwards, Regina Scully, Simone Pero, Madeline Di Nonno, Jennie Peters, Patty Casby, Ku-Ling Yurman Co-Producers: Jessicya Materano, Robin Kelleher Production companies: CreativeChaos vmg, New Plot Films Davis and director Maria Giese discuss the dramatic disparities on screen. GROSS: Yeah. But that was my plan. I - my daughter was a toddler, and I decided she was old enough to start watching preschool shows. And her actions led to an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission investigation into systemic discrimination against women directors. Which really isn't very old. And it's a buddy movie. For more details, visit the official This Changes Everything website, where youll find more Press information and Endnotes. Channeling the hurried nature of a TV docuseries edited to cover an extremely broad topic in a limited amount of time, the first act layers a lot of too-brief sound bites albeit from an impressive array of influential women, including Reese Witherspoon and Shonda Rhimes over movie clips emphasizing the prevalence of machismo and misogyny (The Godfather, for example) to almost dizzying effect. Geena Davis is an actress who starred in such films as "A League Of Their Own" and "Thelma & Louise." Kleinexposes the myths that are clouding the climate debate. She had to fight really hard to get them to put it on the air. Danish And so I did. What if confronting the climate crisis is the best chance well ever get to build a better world? So I never thought about it again. Bulgarian This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. I went down to the downtown LA courthouse, and I found that six very courageous women in the Directors Guild in 1979 had got the DGA, our union, to file a class action lawsuit against several major studios. For the rest of us, This Changes Everything will frustrate, enrage and maybe even inspire. Ms. Klein is aware of the intractability of the problems she describes, but she manages optimism nonetheless., Klein is a brave and passionate writer who always deserves to be heard, and this is a powerful and urgent book., If global warming is a worldwide wake-up call, were all pretty heavy sleepers . Actress Geena Davis rallies Meryl Streep, Shonda Rhimes, Reese Witherspoon and others in this . And it also struck a nerve that none of us expected. 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. It's really fun and incredibly challenging. I was a feminist since I was 10-years-old because I came from a very right-wing family. An investigative look and analysis of gender disparity in Hollywood, featuring accounts from well-known actors, executives and artists in the Industry.An investigative look and analysis of gender disparity in Hollywood, featuring accounts from well-known actors, executives and artists in the Industry.An investigative look and analysis of gender disparity in Hollywood, featuring accounts from well-known actors, executives and artists in the Industry. 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 she founded an institute to study gender discrimination in Hollywood. The Geena Davis Institute is a nonprofit organization exempt from federal income tax under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Hilary Weston Writers Trust Prize for Nonfiction. Over the course of 90 minutes, viewers will meet. Variety: Geena Davis Talks This Changes Everything Doc and Conscious Gender Bias in Behind-the-Scenes Hiring, Good Deed Entertainment: This Changes Everything (2019) Exclusive Interview with Geena Davis & Director Tom Donahue, PBS SoCal: Interview with Geena Davis and Tom Donahue on This Changes Everything, Deadline: This Changes Everything Review: Compelling Documentary Tackles Hollywood Gender Inequality Head-On, The New York Times: This Changes Everything Review: Hollywoods Men, Called to Action. We should be showing kids that boys and girls share the same bicycle. 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. I mean you know. A star-studded documentary about gender inequality in film and TV is equal parts history lesson and constructive criticism. No, I didn't think, oh, it's me, at all. So I gathered all my articles and all the work that I had done, and I had even written the beginnings of a legal brief, and I brought it to the ACLU, where I met Melissa Goodman and Ariela Migdal. The poster was designed by street artist Shepard Fairey, whose most famous work This Changes Everything Trailer Premieres in 26 languages and counting This Changes Everything August 26, 2015 DONAHUE: Hopefully not. She's interesting. This is FRESH AIR. MARTIN: I think it was Maya Angelou who said you cant be what you cant see. 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. Oh, no, we can't. Because the next movie somebody makes could be gender-balanced. So I decided I wanted to take up a sport in the real-life way and not the movie version. Maria Giese is a director who felt shut out for being a woman. 2015, Documentary, 1h 29m. I very much expected that that would not be the case. GROSS: So part of your work was modeling for Victoria's Secret. The extraordinary detail and richness of the cinematography inThis Changes Everythingprovides an epic canvas for this exploration of the greatest challenge of our time. GROSS: And so it's a kind of - I think at the time, people were comparing it to Butch Cassidy. Its always been that way. But for the most part, I saw appalling gender imbalance. MARTIN: So Geena, how do you stay in it though? DAVIS: Images are so powerful that it will impact real life. Some positive developments are shown in China and Germany specifically. 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. Slovene Here it is. 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. Downloads only available on ad-free plans. LANDGRAF: The minute we open our door and we say, come express it here, the work got better. And Im like, yay, I cant wait. MORETZ: The biggest part of the movie is when she gets her period for the first time in the shower. DAVIS: Oh, no. And then after about a year and a half, they told me they were going to pursue it. But we were stunned at the reaction that was instant - cover of Time magazine and all that stuff. DAVIS: Well, it was completely random in some ways. You go out to the parking lot with him, and he starts to rape you. . JENNIFER LAWRENCE: Its our time to have wage equality once and for all and equal . 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. Suddenly, they could see what they were doing, and weve yet to leave any meeting where somebody doesnt say, you just changed my project. 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. I'm Terry Gross, and this is FRESH AIR. At the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival, the film was first runner-up for the People's Choice Award: Documentaries. I knew I wanted to be in movies, as opposed to theater. 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 at 41, I took it up and then became absolutely obsessed, as I do with things. You putting men in charge basically driving women and people of color out. 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. 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. 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. Croatian DAVIS: Absolutely, which is fantastic. MARTIN: Do you think its because your initial focus was on kids television? 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 like, you know, I was a huge fan of "GLOW" and very much wanted to do it. When you have 150 men on set and one woman, how is that woman protected? So and it wasnt really until after Me Too and all that happened that we all realized, this is different now. Chinese Complex Dutch GROSS: Let down your hair, as you put it. I'm sure it made a lot of money. This is the 21st century. And she doesnt know its her period because she had never been taught that by her mother. So do you have any idea where things stand? 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. I'm talking about family-rated films. So I knew that we could invoke that law to be able to change things in a very significant way. . The Film thischangeseverything.org Press Kit Aug. 05 2015 5 About the book The feature documentary was inspired by award-winning author Naomi Klein's critically acclaimed worldwide bestselling non-fiction book This Changes Everything. DAVIS: I think partly, back when I started, I wasnt thinking about that, even. SCREENING GUIDES. 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. GEENA DAVIS, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER, THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING: Thank you. It looks like we don't have any synopsis for this title yet. Naomi Klein - This Changes Everything.pdf (PDFy mirror) Publication date 2014-01-01 Topics mirror, pdf.yt Collection pdfymirrors; additional_collections Language English This public document was automatically mirrored from PDFy. So they send over a Victoria's Secret catalogue (laughter). UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I was very lucky because Greys Anatomy was developed under the network presence. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Everyone, listen up, please. How did you take up archery? . They founded the Directors Guild of Americas Womens Steering Committee in 1979. And there's a scene where you come out in - why don't you describe the costume. Finnish '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 then maybe five years later, another movie comes out with a female star. 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. The Book, Documentary & Impact Project Hosting a Screening (note that licensing and contact info in this document are out of date / no longer active) Faith screening guide. If she can see it, she can be it. Terms Privacy Policy For Our Members Access, All rights reserved. So they were driven out of the unions. And that action alone sent the numbers skyrocketing from 0.5% to 16% in just 10 years from 1985 to 1995. 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. And womens films do make more money and have, I think, over the last three years. It will be on air. Forget everything you think you know about global warming. I get to be a doctor. So, like, it seems like a lot of the change is happening from women like that who are creating the change themselves. You know, they just determined to do it, and they're very creative and they make it happen. 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. Kleins urgency and outrage is balanced by meticulous documentation and passionate argument. 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. It was my first audition, and they had called model agencies to say, send any models who can act for an audition. 47%. And that, for me, became a battle worth fighting for. TAX ID# 86-1943473, Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, PO Box 9615, Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91701. This is FRESH AIR. And I just want an excuse to be able to do that (laughter). What were you looking for and what did you come away with? Research shows a connection between kids' healthy self-esteem and positive portrayals in media. With - the other thing that I loved about it was that it's measured by points. Ukrainian, Arabic We were made to feel very dispensable. Actress Geena Davis rallies Meryl Streep, Shonda Rhimes, Reese Witherspoon and others in this . PBS is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. GIESE: Well, that was the thing. . It was just like the way it was, and, you know, being sexy and all that kind of stuff. So here was my hero calling himself a feminist. So I did. Written with an elegant blend of science, statistics, field reports and personal insight, it does not paralyze but buoys the reader. The realization that a solution is possible, well, that changes everything MARTIN: And you do make a point of saying in the film that 75 percent of the crew are women. This Changes Everything August 31, 2015 We're excited to share the official poster for This Changes Everything the documentary! 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. MARTIN: In the age of silent films, women directed a lot of films. Well, Tom, talk a little about what the problem is if you would. 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. And that was an extraordinary triumph. 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 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. Russian Kumi Naidoo,Former Director at Greenpeace International, Genuinely moving A really decent doc, but like 99% of the reviews here, I'm completely dumbfounded why they hired a MALE to direct this. And I'm like, oh, my God, no. Tweets by NaomiAKlein. That so it was already a conversation that started to happen when I start developing the film with my producing partner. GROSS: And I just think it's so interesting that we're having this conversation about women's empowerment and inclusion of women, and the first part of your career revolves around being in your underwear (laughter). And everything gets in the way of that, every possible thought you have, every different circumstance. Published in 2014, it debuted at #5 on the New York Times list and at #1 in Canada. . Female. And my friend and I acted out your trip. 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. But so I think that will change and I think it will impact society, that life will imitate art. Polish Which is why none of them appeared in this film? GROSS: Geena Davis, let me bring you back into the conversation. So there's no way for us to really know where the investigation is, even though it's now, oh - what? DAVIS: Exactly. 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. Absolutely not. Bosnian And they got really excited. 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