Bosnian There's no question about it. Russian Thats the problem. What is the connection? What have they each done? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There is nothing funny here. I knew I wanted to be in movies, as opposed to theater. Interwoven with these stories of struggle is Kleins narration, connecting the carbon in the air with the economic system that put it there. And that in turn should give us hope, because it means the fight for a just world is the same as the fight for a livable one., This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate is a book of such ambition and consequence that it is almost unreviewable . And I thought, OK, well, I'll just become a model, and then they'll just offer me parts because obviously it's so much easier to become a supermodel (laughter). Nothing except that climate change changes everything. [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.. DAVIS: Well, I mean, come on. He's just decided that that's what he's going to do. 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. The numbers have obviously not improved for decades. Well, Tom, talk a little about what the problem is if you would. I mean dont you just want to throw your shoes at the screen? Like why do I care? Its just very elevated because its in the entertainment world. Heart and mind go hand in hand in this magisterial response to a present crisis., We lack the collective spaces in which to confront the raw terror of ecocide, is how Klein encapsulates the problem. TV-PG. Film Review: 'This Changes Everything' Before the #MeToo movement began, director Tom Donahue began assembling a documentary about gender inequality in Hollywood. I'm sure it made a lot of money. Klein and those impassioned protesters provide something that has been in short supply in the predecessors Will this film change everything? For the rest of us, This Changes Everything will frustrate, enrage and maybe even inspire. Dutch Slovene MARTIN: Geena Davis, Tom Donahue, thank you so much for talking to us. After feeling that she was shut out of directing because she's a woman, she became an activist. 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. DAVIS: Well, no, no. Look at what FX did. 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 Presenting portraits of communities on the front lines, This Changes Everything is an epic attempt to re-imagine the vast challenge of climate change. And then for a couple of movies after that, I had to learn other physical skills like horseback riding and taekwondo and fencing and ice skating and a lot of stuff. . 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. 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: So the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media has done a lot of research on the numbers. DONAHUE: They cant really complain to their agent or their manager because theyre just going to tell them just go with it, just be quiet. . JENNIFER LAWRENCE: Its our time to have wage equality once and for all and equal . And there is also no human resources department that these women can go to. Greek The Book, Documentary & Impact Project . But when she got older and roles started to dry up, she realized how unempowered women were in Hollywood. This is FRESH AIR. Dutch UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Its one of the best things thats ever happened in my professional career. 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%. She's featured in the movie and as an executive producer of the film. MARTIN: To that point, heres a scene from the film which speaks with that with Kimberly Pierce, the director, and Chloe Grace Moretz. DONAHUE: Sure. Not rated. For the first thing I showed her, there were profoundly more male characters than female, and it was aimed at two-year- olds. Can we play that? Anyone who then told me or told any other journalist in the future, its too hard, no, its not. GIESE: Well, that was the thing. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. And that action alone sent the numbers skyrocketing from 0.5% to 16% in just 10 years from 1985 to 1995. 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 . Audience Score 100+ Ratings. 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. Not rated. MARTIN: Why do you think that was the click moment for you? But what I did, also as Geena, was start looking at the numbers, and I started to notice that only 4% of studio features were directed by women, and only 13% of episodic TV shows were directed by women. It was night and day, where before, they might say, hey, "Beetlejuice" or something. You know, some shows are researched and all that and certainly harmless. And I think the first thing to change will be on screen. 56%. 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. OK. Let me just play a clip from him in the film. . Watch all you want. But for the most part, I saw appalling gender imbalance. So Geena, I think some people might hear that and go, Oh, thats too bad but why? And you say in the film that you were watching something with your daughter. Slovene Like I think a lot of people have become familiar with the whole question of representation on screen. GROSS: Well, what was wrong with that plan? It was a small budget, and we hoped somebody would see it and not object to the ending. Be the first to contribute. An office worker who is insecure about her looks becomes a masked internet personality by night until a chain of ill-fated events overtakes her life. 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. No one movie can persuade an industry to suddenly reverse decades of discrimination and redistribute power to include the less powerful. I felt very unhappy with having that sort of imposed on me by other people. And you try really hard to, like, throw him off of you. 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? Can you talk about that? My understanding is they don't make their investigation public. Even though Landgraf and several prominent men are interviewed, a title card notes that the studio heads the filmmakers reached out to declined to appear in the film. Bosnian 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. 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, Mark J. Blechner, Seton J. Melvin, Bernard and Denise Schwartz, Koo and Patricia Yuen, the Leila and Mickey Straus Family Charitable Trust, Barbara Hope Zuckerberg, Jeffrey Katz and Beth Rogers, the Filomen M. DAgostino Foundation and. And so that was really fun. GEENA DAVIS: Well, it was pretty dramatic. 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. She's in Paris. DONAHUE: They tend to deny the problem after seeing the film. Unions did not allow women because putting women in the unions meant lower pay and lower prestige. Kumi Naidoo,Former Director at Greenpeace International, Genuinely moving LA Times. 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. GROSS: So the EEOC has been conducting an investigation into systemic discrimination against women directors. . NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. DONAHUE: Well, two things. Produced with New Plot Films in association with the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, David Yurman, and . 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 was my plan (laughter). I get to be a doctor. We also heard from director Maria Giese, who's also featured in the film "This Changes Everything." 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. Romanian DAVIS: I think I noticed it because Ive been in like A League of Their Own and I became very aware of how few inspirational female characters there are in regular adult fare. The authoritative record of NPRs programming is the audio record. 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). Still. Oh, we forgot. MICHEL MARTIN, CONTRIBUTOR: Geena Davis, Tom Donahue, thank you so much for talking to us. Overview. 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. Whats your first name? . And so it was something they had no idea they were doing, and the data changed everything for them. 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. . Portuguese Copyright 2019 NPR. The film brings Naomi Klein's radical, inspiring thesis to life through a connective thread of stories from people living and working on the front . Where's her bathing suit stuff? A determined detective continues his search for the truth behind Asia's largest drug organization and its elusive boss he has unfinished business with. This Changes Everything August 31, 2015 We're excited to share the official poster for This Changes Everything the documentary! And I could see that I was not going to make any headway with them. . 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. All rights reserved. Now, this changes everything. What if confronting the climate crisis is the best chance well ever get to build a better world? There are going to be so many more movies with women starring and everything. 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 Documentary. 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. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: They dont care that Im black. Now we will see so many more female buddy pictures, female road movies or whatever and movies about female friendship. Can we pull off these changes in time? You know, it was, like, an amazing introduction. The film is a Canada-United States coproduction. German 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. Lithuanian 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 . What if confronting the climate crisis is the best chance we'll ever get to build a better world? GROSS: It's like, he's short; you're really tall. 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. And I was horrified. Anyone can read what you share. 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. GROSS: But you were with Sydney Pollack. Bring me my tiny violin. This Changes Everything is a 2018 American documentary film, directed by Tom Donahue. He's got you pinned against a car. 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 . You say in almost 100 years, only one woman has won an academy award for best director. So it was all very shocking and great because what it really - well, first of all, I'll tell you how it affected me. Film schools are now half female. Its the lowest hanging fruit possible. Were they getting work? And I also expected it to be not true anymore by the time I would get to that age. Korean I get to have opinions, I get to be smart. PBS is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. She's best known for her starring roles in "Thelma & Louise," "A League Of Their Own," and "Beetlejuice." You go out to the parking lot with him, and he starts to rape you. On a platform out at sea, they have formed The Community - a new type of society and a better way of living. Mike and Alexis, a Montana goat ranching couple who see their dreams coated in oil from a broken pipeline. 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. MARTIN: Do you think its because your initial focus was on kids television? I'm Terry Gross. By what name was This Changes Everything (2018) officially released in India in English? There's far fewer movies with a female lead character. She founded an institute, the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media. - because it was a big hit. And so it kind of made sense in that way. ("This Changes Everything" features interviews with Callie Khouri, Kimberly Peirce, Sharon Stone, Amber Tamblyn, Rose McGowen, Amandla Stenberg, Chloe Grace Moretz, Taraji P. Henson, Natalie. So I never thought about it again. MARTIN: Well, you do interview one executive, the head of FX, John Landgraf. 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. And so thats what I did and, in fact, its proven that theyre incredibly grateful and horrified and embarrassed. And I was counting on my hands as I held her in my lap, and it was horrifying, and I was absolutely stunned. 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. Or did you think, oh, it's me - no one wants me anymore? GROSS: Prevent that kind of behavior. Tweets by NaomiAKlein. Harvey Weinstein, of course, comes to mind. So I think that's a big change that's happened. MARTIN: Talk to me about the Geena Davis Institute which you founded years ago. Theyll just get somebody else. My guest Geena Davis starred in two movies about female empowerment - "Thelma & Louise" and "A League Of Their Own." So I began to think, you know, this is maybe not just about me, and even if my own career is just about me, that doesn't answer for all the incredible, talented women everywhere that are not able to contribute their voices to our entertainment media storytelling. Davis and director Maria Giese discuss the dramatic disparities on screen. VarietyMagazine, If you care about justice you must see this. And two and a half years later, I was a semifinalist for the Olympic trials. [2] 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. 1 hr 30 min. A new documentary explores how women in Hollywood are pushing for more representation in front of and behind the camera. 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. MARTIN: But Geena, this has to have happened to you throughout your career? And they got really excited. Most importantly, the film seeks pathways and solutions from within and outside the industry, and around the world. LANDGRAF: The minute we open our door and we say, come express it here, the work got better. 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. Turkish . I'm going to ask you to describe the premise. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I did. And it hasnt changed in all that time. makes a muscular case for global warming as the defining, cross-sectional issue of our era. From left, Joelle Dobrow, Nell Cox, Susan Nimoy, Dolores Ferraro, Lynne Littman and Victoria Hochberg in 1980. Directed by Avi Lewis, and inspired by Naomi Klein's international non-fiction bestseller This Changes Everything, the film presents seven powerful 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. Its not going to benefit you. So I did. 2015, Documentary, 1h 29m. Ukrainian. Its an alarm that calls us to fix an economic system that is already failing us in many ways. GROSS: So part of your work was modeling for Victoria's Secret. And why does that matter? GROSS: And you also are an archer - like bow and arrow archery. I felt its my duty as a feminist, male or otherwise. GROSS: This is the equal opportunity law. Global Release 2020, 2023 Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media. As defeated as one feels when you dont see a change happening, I really do think that it can and that it will. SCREENING GUIDES. 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. 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? So I'm wondering if you think it's having that kind of effect. And that was an extraordinary triumph. 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. And I started to do research. And it was just, you know, doing a video with a casting assistant. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at www.npr.org for further information. Italian, Japanese 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. Because the next movie somebody makes could be gender-balanced. So there's no way for us to really know where the investigation is, even though it's now, oh - what? GROSS: How did you decide to create your institute? Nothing is certain. So I started making this movie. Absolutely not. I was very upset and angry at that happening to me. This Changes Everything Review: Hollywoods Men, Called to Action, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/08/movies/this-changes-everything-review.html. And this is in every sector of society, its the same story. Being so tall, I just didn't want anybody to look at me, especially if I was going to be failing at a sport. Swedish Nobody complained about anything because you felt that it would damage your career. And so I learned at 36 that I actually was coordinated. Actress Geena Davis rallies Meryl Streep, Shonda Rhimes, Reese Witherspoon and others in this powerful documentary. I haven't really ever had to describe what it's about. And a buddy movies are always men's movies. JOIN NOW. In the directors guild, there were only two women I think up until the 1960s who were members of the union. Several women serve as executive producers, including Davis.). Watch all you want. From Thelma & Louise to A League of Their Own, the Oscar-winning actress Geena Davis made her name with her strong female characters. 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. ', A work of startling force, exhaustive reporting, and telling anecdote . And for a very brief time, the nature of that change is still up to us. With - the other thing that I loved about it was that it's measured by points. The carbon in the unions meant lower pay and lower prestige of FX, Landgraf... 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