GROSS: So what was your strategy to try to open the door to more women directors? 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. So at 41, I took it up and then became absolutely obsessed, as I do with things. But it's profoundly not the case right now. This is the 21st century. Maybe they just thought I really wanted to, that I wanted to be such a student of film that that was my goal. Can we pull off these changes in time? UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I think they just dont like me. 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. Bosnian 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. 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.". Will this film change everything? This Changes Everything Review: Hollywoods Men, Called to Action, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/08/movies/this-changes-everything-review.html. Director Avi Lewis Writer We havent made significant progress, Klein argues, because weve been expecting solutions from the very same institutions that created the problem in the first place . You used to make a movie a year. Thats the problem. You were working with Dustin Hoffman. And so it kind of made sense in that way. But it was television that showed me there it was another way, and it was a show called MASH. 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). For the record: 11:23 a.m. Aug. 8, 2019 An earlier version of this review included a photo from the 2015 climate-change documentary "This Changes Everything." Also in the review, the memory of . A really decent doc, but like 99% of the reviews here, I'm completely dumbfounded why they hired a MALE to direct this. From left, Joelle Dobrow, Nell Cox, Susan Nimoy, Dolores Ferraro, Lynne Littman and Victoria Hochberg in 1980. 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. And I was so shocked when my coach said after just a few months, well, now you've got to start competing. And - but nobody, and least of all him, nobody ever said, you realize you don't have to come every day? And very quickly, the coaches were saying, you know, you have a lot of untapped athletic ability. MARIA GIESE: My first feature film directing job out of graduate film school was in England, not in the United States. And I was kind of good at all of it. I did get work, and it was through my model agency that I got my first acting job. Being so tall, I just didn't want anybody to look at me, especially if I was going to be failing at a sport. 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. 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. And so I did. Or did you think, oh, it's me - no one wants me anymore? DONAHUE: Well, because they even if its unconscious, theyre still embarrassed and I think their legal departments also said, dont go on the record about this. Harvey Weinstein, of course, comes to mind. And I got the part. I never got another paying job. DAVIS: Right. This sudden change in how people reacted when they recognized me was very, very pronounced. About the author. 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. Chinese Complex 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. 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. DAVIS: Exactly. LANDGRAF: The minute we open our door and we say, come express it here, the work got better. Featuring interviews with Geena Davis, Meryl Streep, Natalie Portman, Taraji P. Henson, Reese Witherspoon, Cate Blanchett, Tiffany Haddish, Jill Soloway, Shonda Rhimes, Jessica Chastain, Yara Shahidi, Chloe Grace Moretz, Amandla Stenberg, Alan Alda, Sandra Oh, Anita Hill, Rashida Jones, Rose McGowan, Judd Apatow, Rosario Dawson, Maria Giese, and many other influential voices in the fight for gender equality. Promotional materials, trailers & welcome video. JENNIFER LAWRENCE: Its our time to have wage equality once and for all and equal . In 2014, the book won the Hilary Weston Writers Trust Prize for Nonfiction, Canadas most prestigious award for non-fiction. GROSS: So you went to the ACLU, and then the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission became involved, too. Polish In 2018, 92 percent of the directors of the top 250 domestic releases were men. And it was fantastic. GROSS: But you were with Sydney Pollack. And so I never asked any questions, and I didn't know that you didn't have to come every day. And a lot of men would say to me when I was making the film, Well, the problem is you just follow the money. If women films made more money, of course, there would be more women films. 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. 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. It often seems that these worlds are completely . Executive Producers: Geena Davis, Steve Edwards, Regina Scully, Simone Pero, Madeline Di Nonno, Jennie Peters, Patty Casby, Ku-Ling Yurman GROSS: And you also are an archer - like bow and arrow archery. And it seemed that, in the 21st century, this was a horrible message to be sending and very shocking. Danish Interwoven with these stories of struggle is Naomi Klein's narration, connecting the carbon in the air with the economic system that put it there. 10 Video Games That Need a Live Action Adaptation, 2023's Most Anticipated Sequels, Prequels, and Spin-offs. But how can you change the world if you've taken yourself out of it? So, like, it seems like a lot of the change is happening from women like that who are creating the change themselves. When, for instance, in 2017 I think, female-led films made 38 percent more money at the Box Office than male-led films. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You directed an episode of it. But we were stunned at the reaction that was instant - cover of Time magazine and all that stuff. But you could, by answering its call to action. 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. Thelma & Louise was supposed to have done it. Its not about carbonits about capitalism. Can we play that? 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. In this part of the interview, I'm going to talk more with Davis about her own movie career. 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. Directed by Avi Lewis Maria Giese is a director who felt shut out of directing because she's a woman. Presenting portraits of communities on the front lines, This Changes Everything is an epic attempt to re-imagine the vast challenge of climate change. Here it is. 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. 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. 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. It sets the most important crisis in human history in the context of our other ongoing traumas, reminding us just how much the powers-that-be depend on the power of coal, gas and oil. Lithuanian 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. And they didn't ask - after I read the part, they didn't ask to see my bathing suit. GEENA DAVIS: Well, it was pretty dramatic. A new documentary explores how women in Hollywood are pushing for more representation in front of and behind the camera. Finnish DAVIS: Hopefully not. Were they getting work? Its just very elevated because its in the entertainment world. On TV, you have women like Shonda Rhimes, Ava DuVernay, who's also in movies, and Reese Witherspoon not only doing shows that have women in them but also - certainly with Ava DuVernay, she makes a point of hiring women directors and often women directors of color for her series "Queen Sugar." We also heard from director Maria Giese, who's also featured in the film "This Changes Everything." A work of startling force, exhaustive reporting, and telling anecdote . It was once there was a four in front of my age, and DAVIS: You know, I had heard about that for a long time, that people said that things change when you turn 40 or when you're in your 40s, but I didn't expect it to be literal. Portuguese And why does that matter? GROSS: Geena Davis, let me bring you back into the conversation. Klein and those impassioned protesters provide something that has been in short supply in the predecessors In the course of this struggle, they help ignite a nationwide movement. So I'm wondering if you think it's having that kind of effect. But I loved it. And that, for me, became a battle worth fighting for. I felt very unhappy with having that sort of imposed on me by other people. AMANPOUR: Yes. Danish A lot of negative reaction in the press too like, oh, no, the world is ruined now. MARTIN: And you do make a point of saying in the film that 75 percent of the crew are women. We can talk about it and everybody is talking about it, you know. Russian GROSS: So you and your friend, played by Susan Sarandon - they go on a trip together, have a lot of drinks in a bar, guy comes up to you, asked to dance with you. [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 definitely see a big shift happening in Hollywood in the past couple of years since #MeToo and Time's Up. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. But it didnt take her long to realize that she was the exception and not the rule. She ends up shooting him, and then you both go on the lam because you feel like, who's going to believe you? Author interview. So do you have any idea where things stand? By Joel Horwood. Written with an elegant blend of science, statistics, field reports and personal insight, it does not paralyze but buoys the reader. And for me, the word feminist was a bad word in my house. . GROSS: So the EEOC has been conducting an investigation into systemic discrimination against women directors. So I never tried anything. 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. This is FRESH AIR. GROSS: So Geena Davis, I have a few questions for you about your career. So I knew that we could invoke that law to be able to change things in a very significant way. 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. DONAHUE: So the cheaper shows on Netflix and Hulu. I haven't really ever had to describe what it's about. You putting men in charge basically driving women and people of color out. 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. 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 . DAVIS: Oh, I don't know which one you mean. 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. This Changes Everything | A book, film and engagement project about why the climate crisis is the best opportunity we've ever had to build a better world. Buy now. There's also people like Ryan Murphy, who has that initiative called Half, where he just decided and announced that half of his cast and crew were always going to be female. ("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. And then the second thing were unions. Forget everything you think you know about global warming. It ultimately all worked out for me, but the likelihood of becoming a famous model was actually pretty slim, and I didn't. 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 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. So I thats when I learned about the work of Geena in her institute and how important onscreen representation was. GROSS: Let down your hair, as you put it. I was a feminist since I was 10-years-old because I came from a very right-wing family. I knew I wanted to be in movies, as opposed to theater. So theres something really deep and systemic going on. Well, we call the film This Changes Everything, because its about kind of why that doesnt happen. 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. This Changes Everything 2015 Not Rated 1 h 29 m IMDb RATING 6.4 /10 614 YOUR RATING Rate Play trailer 2:22 1 Video 16 Photos Documentary 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 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 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 they got really excited. LANDGRAF: And maybe that the talent wouldnt be there. Her work led to an ongoing EEOC, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, investigation into systemic discrimination against women directors, as well as an ACLU campaign against discrimination. And a little by little, I introduced them to a group of my female colleagues. It looks like we don't have any synopsis for this title yet. 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. And if you're just joining us, my guest is actor Geena Davis and director Maria Giese. . DAVIS: Well, I was astounded that it happened. Its always been that way. 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. French . Film schools are now half female. MARTIN: So you can see it with kids entertainment? It was a small budget, and we hoped somebody would see it and not object to the ending. What if confronting the climate crisis is the best chance we'll ever get to build a better world? So when I got back from Cannes, I was represented at William Morris Agency, and basically nothing happened. DONAHUE: They tend to deny the problem after seeing the film. We have also been told that humanity is too greedy and selfish to rise to this challenge. . We have been told its impossible to get off fossil fuels when in fact we know exactly how to do itit just requires breaking every rule in the free-market playbook: reining in corporate power, rebuilding local economies, and reclaiming our democracies. The most profound threat to humanity is the war our economic model is waging against life on earth. And then I saw it everywhere. Watch This Changes Everything: Men Don't See Us Women Equal. Michael Mann tells Christiane Amanpour why we need to rethink what we eat and how we produce it. A determined detective continues his search for the truth behind Asia's largest drug organization and its elusive boss he has unfinished business with. 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. 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. PBS is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. Croatian UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There is nothing funny here. And so it was something they had no idea they were doing, and the data changed everything for them. 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. Italian Accuracy and availability may vary. This Changes Everything has been translated into 27 languages: Arabic Change or be changed, but make no mistake, this changes everything.. Korean For the rest of us, This Changes Everything will frustrate, enrage and maybe even inspire. Its not going to benefit you. Geena Davis and Maria Giese, welcome to FRESH AIR. 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. GROSS: A battle with yourself to not battle with yourself. And for a very brief time, the nature of that change is still up to us. MARTIN: Why do you think that was the click moment for you? Yet we can seize this existential crisis to transform our failed economic system into something radically better. And two and a half years later, I was a semifinalist for the Olympic trials. 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. She starts her own organization, the Geena Davis Institute, on gender in media to keep track of the imbalance. You were signed to a big agency. 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. All rights reserved. Norwegian And a buddy movies are always men's movies. And I explained to them why I thought that this was so significant on a global level. So it was so horrifying to me that we would be doing this to kids that I decided I had to try to do something. Geena Davis is also an executive producer of the film. (Laughter). It was night and day, where before, they might say, hey, "Beetlejuice" or something. Co-Producers: Jessicya Materano, Robin Kelleher Spanish Kleins sharp analysis makes a compelling case that a mass awakening is part of the answer., Gripping and dramatic . SANDRA OH: Shonda was able to make half of her cast not white. No, I didn't think, oh, it's me, at all. So I had been very unathletic as a kid. 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. 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 FEMALE: Feud is so, so good. . MARTIN: Have you felt your career jeopardized by your unspokeness about this? . Go behind the scenes of Netflix TV shows and movies, see what's coming soon and watch bonus videos on. This Changes Everything is a 2018 American documentary film, directed by Tom Donahue. At the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival, the film was first runner-up for the People's Choice Award: Documentaries. Catalan CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR: Now, whether in politics or science or any other field, one thing is for sure, we need more women now. 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 . 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. Suddenly, they could see what they were doing, and weve yet to leave any meeting where somebody doesnt say, you just changed my project. DONAHUE: Yes. 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. Good Deed Entertainment (Theatrical Premiere), Starz (Broadcast), VOD, TVOD. I mean dont you just want to throw your shoes at the screen? And I think the first thing to change will be on screen. They're both featured in the new documentary "This Changes Everything" about discrimination against women in front of and behind the camera in Hollywood. You know, the "Teletubbies" are gender-balanced; I don't know if you can tell. And it hasnt changed in all that time. Produced by: Ilan Arboleda, Kerianne Flynn, Tom Donahue And Im like, yay, I cant wait. The New York Times Book Review called it The most momentous and contentious environmental book since Silent Spring.. Because the next movie somebody makes could be gender-balanced. And it was just, you know, doing a video with a casting assistant. This Changes Everything August 31, 2015 We're excited to share the official poster for This Changes Everything the documentary! I get to have opinions, I get to be smart. German MARTIN: Really? The film is a Canada-United States coproduction. So I never thought about it again. And her actions led to an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission investigation into systemic discrimination against women directors in Hollywood. GROSS: So the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media has done a lot of research on the numbers. Chinese Simple Japanese Actress Geena Davis rallies Meryl Streep, Shonda Rhimes, Reese Witherspoon and others in this . Original filename: Naomi Klein - This Changes Everything.pdf URL: https://pdf.yt/d/Skb-ch_k7psDm90Q . DONAHUE: And then Patricia Arquette got up at the Oscars and demanded equal pay. Turkish She's featured in the movie and as an executive producer of the film. The result is the most momentous and contentious environmental book since Silent Spring. 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. 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 . ', A work of startling force, exhaustive reporting, and telling anecdote . Nothing except that climate change changes everything. And, of course, it's all a joke. DAVIS: Yeah, it's very centering and focusing. A star-studded documentary about gender inequality in film and TV is equal parts history lesson and constructive criticism. Swedish Tweets by NaomiAKlein. And that action alone sent the numbers skyrocketing from 0.5% to 16% in just 10 years from 1985 to 1995. He's just decided that that's what he's going to do. Not rated. Nobody was going into this thinking, oh, we're going to really make a statement with this, or this is going to be a powerful message for anybody. . 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. We should be showing kids that boys and girls share the same bicycle. GROSS: Yeah. When you have 150 men on set and one woman, how is that woman protected? So there's no way for us to really know where the investigation is, even though it's now, oh - what? And she founded an institute to study gender discrimination in Hollywood. But so I think that will change and I think it will impact society, that life will imitate art. And I could see that I was not going to make any headway with them. 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. She's got a handgun, pulls it on him, asks him to apologize. Documentary. 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. GROSS: My guests are actor Geena Davis and director Maria Giese. I didn't want to try any sports because I was - I call it physically shy. Is that why because no studio heads appeared in this film because theyre so embarrassed? Also with us is director Maria Giese, who's featured in the film, too. Women are socialized to go along with the dominant patriarch. 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