Polish 0000002877 00000 n 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. 0000004937 00000 n DAVIS: They do. So I had a lot of training. So I never thought about it again. 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. We dont have to wait for things to turn around in real life. In October, at a special ceremony, she'll receive an honorary Oscar, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. Were they getting work? Swedish Your first movie role, "Tootsie," you're in your underwear in the film. Aiming to bring more spotlight to the sexism in the Hollywood film industry, This Changes Everything interviews several actresses and women filmmakers on their experiences in the industry. AMANPOUR: Yes. So do you have any idea where things stand? SANDRA OH: Shonda was able to make half of her cast not white. Geena Davis is an actress who starred in such films as "A League Of Their Own" and "Thelma & Louise." This is a rush transcript. French I wasnt thinking, this is so unfair. Executive producers: Geena Davis, Regina K. Scully, Ku-ling Yurman, Madeline Di Nonno, Steve Edwards, Jennie Peters, Simone Pero, Patty Casby Or did you think, oh, it's me - no one wants me anymore? 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 two and a half years later, I was a semifinalist for the Olympic trials. The women have guns. Russian watch "This Changes Everything" streaming on Netflix, Hoopla, Netflix basic with Ads. And so I learned at 36 that I actually was coordinated. And, you know, the growing movement against Keystone XL, but, frankly, all of the tar sands pipelines, is really starting to resonate right there in the electoral cycle. They could say, what was I doing? This Changes Everything is, improbably, Kleins most optimistic book. In partnership with The Guardian, we are very proud to unveil this first ever sneak peek at the work-in-progress companion documentary film to This Changes Everything, directed by Avi Lewis. GIESE: You know, I did a lot of script writing and doctoring and - but no, no primetime TV shows, even though I observed for hundreds of hours on major TV shows like Dick Wolf's "Law & Order.". Geena Davis is also an executive producer of the film. Follow officers from a South Carolina sheriffs department as they urgently search for individuals who've disappeared under troubling circumstances. I did get work, and it was through my model agency that I got my first acting job. MARTIN: Talk to me about the Geena Davis Institute which you founded years ago. Global Release 2020, 2023 Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media. But these stories matter. I was a feminist since I was 10-years-old because I came from a very right-wing family. And, of course, it's all a joke. 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. 0000007957 00000 n Of the top 100 grossing films of 2017, male-lead characters received twice as much screen time as female leads. Subscribe for full access to The Hollywood Reporter. Its not going to benefit you. It was my first audition, and they had called model agencies to say, send any models who can act for an audition. PG. This Changes Everything Summary and Study Guide | SuperSummary That said, older viewers are likely to have some feedback (as in the passive-aggressive kind of feedback comedian Hannah Gadsby so vividly describes in Nanette) they might wish they could share with the filmmakers. Please forgive an old lady over here if I say I think Ive seen this one before and know how it ends. DAVIS: Well, it did in a way. Runtime. And you say in the film that you were watching something with your daughter. Theyll just get somebody else. Along with many others who spoke to Everythings director Tom Donahue (who also made the docs Casting By andThank You for Your Service), like Natalie Portman and Chloe Grace Moretz, Davis talks without self-pity about feeling objectified by the filmmaking process. Ukrainian. 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. This sudden change in how people reacted when they recognized me was very, very pronounced. He was the photographer for "Soul Train" and took photos for Jet, Ebony and the black-owned LA newspaper Soul. GROSS: So you went to the ACLU, and then the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission became involved, too. But when she got older and roles started to dry up, she realized how unempowered women were in Hollywood. At one point in the powerful and fascinating new documentary This Changes Everything, executive producer and Oscar-winning actress Geena Davis explains the film's title. Its the lowest hanging fruit possible. Sisters have done it for themselves so why get a guy to direct? 0000006173 00000 n GROSS: And you even competed to be on the Olympic archery team. that women are now dominating that field because we just saw it on T.V. And then I had to play the best baseball player anyone has ever seen hold a bat. GROSS: So what about other women you knew from film school? Sometimes it feels like a disproportionate amount of attention is applied to legal cases and internecine DGA politics, leaving only a scant amount of time for a cursory history of women filmmakers from the silent era onwards. But that was my plan. Director: Tom Donahue 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. And but I just assumed kids media would be gender-balanced, and wholesome, and good for you, and all that. . Producers: Ilan Arboleda, Kerianne Flynn, Tom Donahue . DAVIS: It did well. The catastrophic effects of climate change are viewed through the lens of those in the US northeast coast who suffered through Hurricane Sandy. After we take a short break, we'll hear from photographer Bruce Talamon, whose photos of soul, funk and R&B stars of the '70s and early '80s are collected in a book. 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. Thats the problem. 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. A book, film and engagement project about why the climate crisis is the best opportunity we've ever had to build a better world. A.I. 0000001895 00000 n 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. It's a lonely sport because you're out there for hours every day shooting by yourself. JOIN NOW. This Changes Everything has been translated into 27 languages: Arabic GIESE: Well, I understood very quickly that the numbers in and of themselves inferred violations of Title VII. It includes numerous interviews by female directors, producers, talent, as well as a few interviews by their male counterparts. This Changes Everything | Apple TV And for a very brief time, the nature of that change is still up to us. And she founded an institute to study gender discrimination in Hollywood. Downloads only available on ad-free plans. Oh, we forgot. DAVIS: It was very specific, actually. I'm going to ask you to describe the premise. Hilary Weston Writers Trust Prize for Nonfiction. GEENA DAVIS, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER, THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING: Thank you. DONAHUE: I started the film a year before I actually asked Geena to come on board. Kleinexposes the myths that are clouding the climate debate. So, like, it seems like a lot of the change is happening from women like that who are creating the change themselves. Production company: Creative Chaos Ventures Spanish Klein bases her argument on the scientific consensus that at projected rates of carbon emission we are heading towards an environmental catastrophe . Maybe they just thought I really wanted to, that I wanted to be such a student of film that that was my goal. Great doc until the credits rolled Late Night with Seth Meyers: Milo Ventimiglia/Geena Davis/Ex Hex/Julian Dorio. Editor: Jasmin Way Now, this changes everything. DAVIS: Yeah, it's very centering and focusing. And I was sure they must be right and waiting for this fabulous future that was coming. I'm talking about family-rated films. 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? Christy Lemire is a longtime film critic who has written for RogerEbert.com since 2013. In This Changes Everything, Naomi Klein explores the issue of climate change from a political perspective and considers why we have failed as yet to respond to the global danger it poses. 0000045603 00000 n She's featured in the movie and as an executive producer of the film. Yeah. But were not hearing womens voices or seeing the stories told through the female gaze when there are so few female directors. But it didnt take her long to realize that she was the exception and not the rule. They've dispensed with the alarmist rhetoric surrounding the . 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. 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. 0000004713 00000 n When did things start to slow down in your acting career? MARTIN: Well, you do interview one executive, the head of FX, John Landgraf. Its always been that way. DAVIS: Oh, so - gosh. But I loved it. DONAHUE: Yes. That was the first time where I was ever like, I guess, men dont see us women equal in this industry. And a buddy movies are always men's movies. Based on Naomi Klein's book This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate, a look at how people in various communities around the world play a role in the ongoing climate change debate and how they're affecting change in trying to prevent the environmental destruction of our planet. GROSS: How did you decide to create your institute? You were working with Dustin Hoffman. Nothing is certain. He could hardly have timed it . By what name was This Changes Everything (2015) officially released in India in English? I was very upset and angry at that happening to me. Well, it meant a little ironically. And hopefully, young boys will see that a male-directed this and think I can do that too. GROSS: This is FRESH AIR. AMANPOUR: Let me just give some of the statistics that you cite in the film. A mere 15.6 percent of the Directors Guild of America membership is female. And the ending's kind of similar, where, you know, they kind of ride off a cliff, and you drive off a cliff. Go behind the scenes of Netflix TV shows and movies, see what's coming soon and watch bonus videos on. And I got the part. DAVIS: Well, the bigger part was the (laughter) - that Sydney liked my audition. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There is nothing funny here. Romanian This film is about gender inequality in the TV and movie industry and they couldn't hire a woman to direct this?! Croatian And I just want an excuse to be able to do that (laughter). Actress Geena Davis rallies Meryl Streep, Shonda Rhimes, Reese Witherspoon and others in this powerful documentary. Brenda Chapman explains her thinking in conceiving Pixars Brave: I purposely went for a princess so I could throw the princess thing on its head. (But then the movie weirdly fails to follow up with the fact that Chapman was forced to share directing credit with Mark Andrews once Brave came out, rather than serving as the first woman to direct a Pixar feature.) For the first thing I showed her, there were profoundly more male characters than female, and it was aimed at two-year- olds. What happened was when I was in Thelma & Louise, after Thelma & Louise came out, a lot of the press was talking about, this is going to change everything. Im sure they knew that they were making fewer films with a female lead but they didnt they werent aware that the population of the films were profoundly imbalanced, even the extras. French It will be on air. 0000023091 00000 n She braids together the science, psychology, geopolitics, economics, ethics and activism that shape the climate question. Director. 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. And if you're just joining us, my guest is actor Geena Davis and director Maria Giese. So I started making this movie. Italian 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. In the wake of her prom scandal, Princess Margrethe longs for normalcy as she struggles to maintain her perfect facade while dealing with family drama. And yet the last 10 minutes of the film seem to dispense exactly that same kind of this-time-will-be-different optimism. Overview. Lucky for everybody then that opening up such spaces is exactly what Klein does best., This is the best book about climate change in a very long timein large part because its about much more. And, you know, being harassed and all kinds of things going on, being not listened to, talked down to, all that stuff. The cinematographer, Stefano Ferrari, also is a man. Davis and director Maria Giese discuss the dramatic disparities on screen. You had a small role. The New York Times Book Review called it The most momentous and contentious environmental book since Silent Spring.. Most importantly, the film seeks pathways and solutions from within and outside the industry, and around the world. Kleins urgency and outrage is balanced by meticulous documentation and passionate argument. My guest Geena Davis starred in two movies about female empowerment - "Thelma & Louise" and "A League Of Their Own." Like competing - if you're nervous, your shot's going to be off. Maria Giese is a director who felt shut out for being a woman. And I could see that I was not going to make any headway with them. %PDF-1.5 % This Changes Everything March 10, 2015. And I think thats but also part of it is that my peers and I felt like you cannot complain about any of this because they wont hire you. 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. Was it a centering thing for you - focus? GROSS: Maria Giese, let me move on to you. Slovene After the release of This Changes Everything book and film, Naomi went on a sold out tour to speak to audiences worldwide. GROSS: What did you like about archery? And they started to reach out to interview many, many women, as many women directors as they could. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I did. I get to be a doctor. Korean 0000023356 00000 n Geena Davis and Tom Donahue sit down with Hari Sreenivasan to discuss their new film This Changes Everything, which tackles the need for more female representation in media. It couldnt be timelier, and its simmering feeling of frustration is palpable. It couldn't be timelier, and its simmering feeling of frustration is palpable. Young Queen Charlotte's marriage to King George of England sparks an epic love story and transforms high society in this "Bridgerton" universe prequel. Flawed as it is, This Changes Everything matters and maybe itll even make a difference. MARTIN: In fact, theres a clip for that. GIESE: I first went to the EEOC in 2013. Last year, 92 percent of the directors who made the top 250 domestic movies were male. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Feud is so, so good. When you have 150 men on set and one woman, how is that woman protected? 0000045243 00000 n MARTIN: So you can see it with kids entertainment? LANDGRAF: The minute we open our door and we say, come express it here, the work got better. 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, fr makes a muscular case for global warming as the defining, cross-sectional issue of our era., [A]robust new polemic . 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. Reese Witherspoon, Jessica Chastain, Meryl Streep, Rashida Jones, Natalie Portman, Tracee Ellis Ross and many, many more actresses talk passionately and persuasively about the need to kick the door open and tell womens stories in ways that are real and rich. DAVIS: Not at all. ', A work of startling force, exhaustive reporting, and telling anecdote . Geena Davis talks about what inspired "This Changes Everything," a documentary about women in film.Subscribe: https://bit.ly/2HFUeAKWebsite: https://kellyand. THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING: Educational, Inspirational, AndPuzzling CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR: Now, whether in politics or science or any other field, one thing is for sure, we need more women now. This Changes Everything - amazon.com GROSS: But you're in your underwear. And I'd be like, which part exactly? Fatal Attraction Works As Entertainment, Fails as Social Commentary, Prime Videos Citadel Traps Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Richard Madden in Played-Out Spy Game, New York Philharmonic and Steven Spielberg Celebrate the Music of John Williams, A Piece of His Fire: Harry Belafonte (1927-2023). The books exploration of climate change from the perspective of how capitalism functions produces fresh insights and its examination of the interconnectedness between our relationship with nature and the creation of better, fairer societies presents a radical proposal. 0000023951 00000 n 0000004824 00000 n 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. And Im like, yay, I cant wait. She, along with many others, weighs in on the need to offer little girls and boys a chance to see that women can be the heroes, the protagonists, the lead figures in the stories we tell. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein on How 'This Changes Everything - IndieWire 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. DAVIS: Oh, no. Forget everything you think you know about global warming.
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