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. Unions did not allow women because putting women in the unions meant lower pay and lower prestige. In 2004, she founded the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media. 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. You can pick up a lot on a set. So its kind of working. Determined to provide a ray of light for those under her care, a young nurse navigates the world of mental health and the diverse stories surrounding it. And that was an extraordinary triumph. 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. Maleeha Lodhi joins the program to explain tensions between Pakistan and India. Dutch And there is also no human resources department that these women can go to. I'm Terry Gross. So it was all very shocking and great because what it really - well, first of all, I'll tell you how it affected me. It looks like we don't have any synopsis for this title yet. Running time: 1 hour 36 minutes. TV-PG. MARTIN: You know one of the things that really fascinated me about the film is that you point out it wasnt always this way. Well, get her back. Chinese Simple GROSS: So did being a model for Victoria's Secret lead to having this part where you're in your underwear in the dressing room? 10 Video Games That Need a Live Action Adaptation, 2023's Most Anticipated Sequels, Prequels, and Spin-offs. 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. Why dont things change? And I was horrified. This sudden change in how people reacted when they recognized me was very, very pronounced. [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. I mean dont you just want to throw your shoes at the screen? And for a very brief time, the nature of that change is still up to us. In the directors guild, there were only two women I think up until the 1960s who were members of the union. That so it was already a conversation that started to happen when I start developing the film with my producing partner. Produced by: Ilan Arboleda, Kerianne Flynn, Tom Donahue The numbers have obviously not improved for decades. Original filename: Naomi Klein - This Changes Everything.pdf URL: https://pdf.yt/d/Skb-ch_k7psDm90Q Like competing - if you're nervous, your shot's going to be off. This Changes Everything. Nobody complained about anything because you felt that it would damage your career. And this is according to the Center for the Study of Women and Television and Film in San Diego State University. . And then Susan Sarandon comes out. I thought, this is incredibly unfair, and I don't want other people deciding that I have to work less, you know, and taking away opportunities. DONAHUE: Well, two things. And it was just, you know, doing a video with a casting assistant. Here it is. Whats your first name? MARTIN: Talk to me about the Geena Davis Institute which you founded years ago. VarietyMagazine, If you care about justice you must see this. 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. 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. AMANPOUR: Yes. -Alice Walker, author and activist, Purposely unsettling Ultimately encouraging 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. OK. Let me just play a clip from him in the film. Now, with Director Donahue, shes taking her message to the masses with the film, This Changes Everything which they have been discussing with our Michel Martin. Geena, I want to start with you. And he just does it. GROSS: And you also are an archer - like bow and arrow archery. It ultimately all worked out for me, but the likelihood of becoming a famous model was actually pretty slim, and I didn't. 2015, Documentary, 1h 29m. There are going to be so many more movies with women starring and everything. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. GROSS: How did you decide to create your institute? 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. 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. German Kleins urgency and outrage is balanced by meticulous documentation and passionate argument. But on the other hand, I sort of felt like, well, this is what was supposed to happen. 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. The first film you directed was shown at the Cannes Film Festival. And so it kind of made sense in that way. Co-Producers: Jessicya Materano, Robin Kelleher UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Feud is so, so good. Watch all you want. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You directed an episode of it. MARTIN: So the title of the film, we start with that, This Changes Everything. This is something that you say in the film. . In this part of the interview, I'm going to talk more with Davis about her own movie career. DONAHUE: Its funny. You know, God forbid you complain about your salary not being equal or being harassed or mistreated or discriminated against because they'll just get somebody else, you know? 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. And I could see that I was not going to make any headway with them. GROSS: But you were with Sydney Pollack. German Netflix | Apple TV | Amazon Video | Vudu | FandangoNOW | Kanopy | Hoopla, Directed by: Tom Donahue This Changes Everything Review: Hollywoods Men, Called to Action, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/08/movies/this-changes-everything-review.html. Ukrainian, Arabic All rights reserved. The realization that a solution is possible, well, that changes everything She starts her own organization, the Geena Davis Institute, on gender in media to keep track of the imbalance. 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. They're both featured in the new documentary "This Changes Everything" about discrimination against women in front of and behind the camera in Hollywood. It takes an incisive look at the history, empirical evidence, and systemic forces that foster gender discrimination and thus reinforce disparity in our culture. The women have guns. 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. 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. I get to have opinions, I get to be smart. GROSS: So what was your strategy to try to open the door to more women directors? Tweets by NaomiAKlein. I never got another paying job. This is FRESH AIR. DAVIS: Images are so powerful that it will impact real life. Go behind the scenes of Netflix TV shows and movies, see what's coming soon and watch bonus videos on. Director Avi Lewis Writer And so I thought, this is an enormous problem if we are training kids from the beginning that girls are second-class citizens. 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. When Dani Arnold broke Ueli Steck's speed record climbing the Eiger in 2011, it sparked a duel between them across the six great north faces of the Alps. GROSS: Did you think of it as discrimination against older women? And we started to have meetings with them. Romanian We can reflect the future now and it will make it happen. Copy may not be in its final form. 24 female police officers, firefighters, bodyguards, soldiers, athletes and stuntwomen team up by profession to compete for survival on a remote island. GROSS: What did you like about archery? In October, at a special ceremony, she'll receive an honorary Oscar, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. 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 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. She's got a handgun, pulls it on him, asks him to apologize. An investigative look and analysis of gender disparity in Hollywood, featuring accounts from well-known actors, executives and artists in the Industry. DONAHUE: And then Patricia Arquette got up at the Oscars and demanded equal pay. 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. 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. Now we will see so many more female buddy pictures, female road movies or whatever and movies about female friendship. Interwoven with these stories of struggle is Kleins narration, connecting the carbon in the air with the economic system that put it there. GIESE: I first went to the EEOC in 2013. DAVIS: Well, it did in a way. So I had been very unathletic as a kid. JENNIFER LAWRENCE: Its our time to have wage equality once and for all and equal . YES Magazine It's a lonely sport because you're out there for hours every day shooting by yourself. They could say, what was I doing? And so I never asked any questions, and I didn't know that you didn't have to come every day. 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. . 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. '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. This documentary takes a deep look at gender disparity in Hollywood through the eyes of well-known actresses and female filmmakers. A right wing think tank provides its view that the climate change issue needs to be dealt with through market forces. Slovene Buy now. DAVIS: Well, I mean, come on. DAVIS: Exactly. No one movie can persuade an industry to suddenly reverse decades of discrimination and redistribute power to include the less powerful. Catalan Spanish 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. It really started for me at the end of 2014 with the Sony hack and finding out about the disparity in pay between Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper in American Hustle. Dutch What if confronting the climate crisis is the best chance well ever get to build a better world? I think my peers and I were always operating under the assumption that you should never complain about anything. 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. Hilary Weston Writers Trust Prize for Nonfiction. DONAHUE: Yes. DAVIS: I think partly, back when I started, I wasnt thinking about that, even. 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. Oh, we forgot. You putting men in charge basically driving women and people of color out. In 2012, my archery coach noticed that when both Brave and The Hunger Games came out, suddenly the percentage of girls taking up archery shot up 105 percent, higher than adult men. 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. It's really fun and incredibly challenging. And that action alone sent the numbers skyrocketing from 0.5% to 16% in just 10 years from 1985 to 1995. And they started to reach out to interview many, many women, as many women directors as they could. GROSS: This is the equal opportunity law. So and it wasnt really until after Me Too and all that happened that we all realized, this is different now. Tom, do you want to add to that? 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. I knew I wanted to be in movies, as opposed to theater. So I knew the way to move the numbers and to make real significant change was through legal action. Croatian Can we play that? A group of disillusioned young women have disappeared. Recorded by CBC Ideasafter the historic December 2015 Paris Climate meeting, in this lecture, Naomi analyzed the failures of that Agreement and discussed ways to move forward from it. Well, it meant a little ironically. I was very upset and angry at that happening to me. Yet we can seize this existential crisis to transform our failed economic system into something radically better. TAX ID# 86-1943473, Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, PO Box 9615, Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91701. That was the first time where I was ever like, I guess, men dont see us women equal in this industry. [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.. Its just very elevated because its in the entertainment world. Climate change isnt just another issue to be neatly filed between taxes and health care. . This Changes Everything Official trailer Did we miss something on diversity? 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. This Changes Everything makes this point very clear, while also seeking to spark initiative. This documentary takes a deep look at gender disparity in Hollywood through the eyes of well-known actresses and female filmmakers. He's got you pinned against a car. This is the 21st century. Hosting a Screening (note that licensing and contact info in this document are out of date / no longer active) Faith screening guide. And so that was really fun. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There is nothing funny here. You know, some shows are researched and all that and certainly harmless. Italian, Japanese And womens films do make more money and have, I think, over the last three years. 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. So I learned about being a feminist through the activism of a man. . MARTIN: about women in Hollywood and the underrepresentation of women in Hollywood? Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at www.npr.org for further information. a scene from This Changes Everything, the documentary. Film Review: 'This Changes Everything' Before the #MeToo movement began, director Tom Donahue began assembling a documentary about gender inequality 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. Geena Davis is an actress who starred in such films as "A League Of Their Own" and "Thelma & Louise." 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. Copyright 2019 NPR. Turkish And the ending's kind of similar, where, you know, they kind of ride off a cliff, and you drive off a cliff. 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. It takes a bit of time for the documentary to find its groove. Accuracy and availability may vary. In 2014, the book won the Hilary Weston Writers Trust Prize for Nonfiction, Canadas most prestigious award for non-fiction. And so it's just a battle with yourself the whole time. GROSS: Geena Davis, Maria Giese, thank you both so much for talking with us. DAVIS: They do. And I was like, you know, I was a huge fan of "GLOW" and very much wanted to do it. JOIN NOW. Bulgarian And she founded an institute to study gender discrimination in Hollywood. MORETZ: The biggest part of the movie is when she gets her period for the first time in the shower. 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? Klein and those impassioned protesters provide something that has been in short supply in the predecessors What if confronting the climate crisis is the best chance we'll ever get to build a better world? 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. DONAHUE: Sure. 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. 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