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. GROSS: There's Dustin Hoffman, who plays this man who can't get roles, finally auditions for a role posing as a woman in a soap opera. We're. It ultimately all worked out for me, but the likelihood of becoming a famous model was actually pretty slim, and I didn't. MARTIN: And youre saying that entertainment really does matter. 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.) 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By what name was This Changes Everything (2018) officially released in India in English? DONAHUE: Yes. Told first-hand by some of Hollywood's leading voices behind and in front of the camera, THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING is the award-winning 2019 feature-length documentary that uncovers what is beneath one of the most confounding dilemmas in the entertainment industry - the underrepresentation and misrepresentation of women. . Finnish As we mark the third anniversary to Superstorm Sandy, individual of the most destructive storms in the nation's history, are we designed by next extreme meteorology event, which researchers say are becoming more frequent from the effects of climate change? (Laughter). So its kind of working. I didn't want to try any sports because I was - I call it physically shy. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There is nothing funny here. And for me, the word feminist was a bad word in my house. It's about two women who grab ahold of their fate and refuse to relinquish control no matter how far it takes them, that they remain in charge of their destiny. Korean CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR: Now, whether in politics or science or any other field, one thing is for sure, we need more women now. SANDRA OH: Shonda was able to make half of her cast not white. And I saw the director was a white male. - because it was a big hit. And I was kind of good at all of it. 0000034997 00000 n And then I had to play the best baseball player anyone has ever seen hold a bat. Swedish 2019 | Maturity Rating: TV-MA | 1h 35m | Documentaries. And very quickly, the coaches were saying, you know, you have a lot of untapped athletic ability. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You directed an episode of it. MARTIN: You know one of the things that really fascinated me about the film is that you point out it wasnt always this way. French And two and a half years later, I was a semifinalist for the Olympic trials. We should be showing kids that boys and girls share the same bicycle. 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. Now, this changes everything. 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. DAVIS: Well, you know, we found that for every two speaking male characters, there's one female speaking character, and that there's an appalling amount of hypersexualization of female characters, even in G-rated movies, and the female characters are very often narrowly stereotyped, hypersexualized or not really integral to the plot. Some positive developments are shown in China and Germany specifically. We can reflect the future now and it will make it happen. So and it wasnt really until after Me Too and all that happened that we all realized, this is different now. And they started to reach out to interview many, many women, as many women directors as they could. She speaks candidly about the way shes been depicted on screen, how she and many others thought the revolutionary Thelma & Louise would change everything (hence the title) back in 1991, and the research shes done on the portrayal of women in childrens programming through her Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media. I - my daughter was a toddler, and I decided she was old enough to start watching preschool shows. Like competing - if you're nervous, your shot's going to be off. 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. And it was just, you know, doing a video with a casting assistant. Its a lot of documents and newspaper headlines. This Changes Everything (R eferred as TCE) Rezvaneh Rezapour, Jana Diesner January 2015 Summary of Project: we study the impact of Naomi Klein's book, This Changes Everything, in . What happened after that? 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. 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. MARTIN: So Geena, how do you stay in it though? DAVIS: They do. Can we pull off these changes in time? But on the other hand, I sort of felt like, well, this is what was supposed to happen. But so I think that will change and I think it will impact society, that life will imitate art. 0000000976 00000 n DAVIS: Absolutely, yes. But we were stunned at the reaction that was instant - cover of Time magazine and all that stuff. Provoking whats surely the docs biggest laugh, Tiffany Haddish relives the thrill of watching Diahann Carroll whaling on Joan Collins in the classic Dynasty catfight, and yet never going to jail for it. The documentary Half the Picture, directed by Amy Adrion and which premiered at Sundance earlier this year, overlaps considerably in terms of subject matter (and also subjects themselves, with quite a few interviewees present in both films), but it leaves a stronger impression that there is a plurality of viewpoints out there, not all of them in sisterly agreement. 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? 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. Profoundly, embarrassing few. Tom Donahue . But the biggest reaction of all was the press saying, like the title of the movie, this is going to change everything. When you have 150 men on set and one woman, how is that woman protected? The women have guns. 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. And your role is as the entertainment director of a casino. A new nurse at a hospital begins to suspect her colleague's desire for attention may be tied to a series of patient deaths. 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. Its not going to benefit you. Bring me my tiny violin. The economic drivers of the carbon society are highlighted by the economic crisis in Greece in the early 2000s, where some saw the only solution to get out of the crisis being to sell off the land to the highest bidder, those highest bidders often being resource extraction companies. By what name was This Changes Everything (2015) officially released in India in English? 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. My understanding is they don't make their investigation public. 2015 is on track to be the hottest date in written history, the nine von the 10 sharpest months after record keeping began in 1880 have . And her actions led to an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission investigation into systemic discrimination against women directors. You know, I mean, both are kind of unattainable. Geena Davis is an actress who starred in such films as "A League Of Their Own" and "Thelma & Louise." This is the 21st century. 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. GROSS: And you also are an archer - like bow and arrow archery. This sudden change in how people reacted when they recognized me was very, very pronounced. This Changes Everything has been translated into 27 languages: Arabic 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. DAVIS: I think partly, back when I started, I wasnt thinking about that, even. So I decided I wanted to take up a sport in the real-life way and not the movie version. Bulgarian DAVIS: Well, no, no. MARTIN: So you can see it with kids entertainment? 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. GROSS: Prevent that kind of behavior. Geena Davis talks about what inspired "This Changes Everything," a documentary about women in film.Subscribe: https://bit.ly/2HFUeAKWebsite: https://kellyand. You hear so many women speaking up when they encounter injustice and openly talking about it. So when I got back from Cannes, I was represented at William Morris Agency, and basically nothing happened. Also with us is director Maria Giese, who's featured in the film, too. And then the second thing were unions. And it also struck a nerve that none of us expected. Suddenly, they could see what they were doing, and weve yet to leave any meeting where somebody doesnt say, you just changed my project. 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. 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. Chinese Complex Now, Davis has lent her own power to Tom Donahue's documentary, " This Changes Everything ," which is designed to shine a more public light on the imbalances both in front of and behind the . And for me, it was no big deal to want to take the man until here and try to tell this story. It was night and day, where before, they might say, hey, "Beetlejuice" or something. We can talk about it and everybody is talking about it, you know. GIESE: I first went to the EEOC in 2013. A mere 15.6 percent of the Directors Guild of America membership is female. With - the other thing that I loved about it was that it's measured by points. It couldnt be timelier, and its simmering feeling of frustration is palpable. And so it's just a battle with yourself the whole time. 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. He's got you pinned against a car. I get to be a doctor. And so I thought, this is an enormous problem if we are training kids from the beginning that girls are second-class citizens. Age rating. She's interesting. Runtime. . Subscribe for full access to The Hollywood Reporter. The result is the most momentous and contentious environmental book since Silent Spring. JOHN LANDGRAF, HEAD, FX: I had this unconscious bias that we would have to be making sacrifices to hire people with less experience. Producers: Ilan Arboleda, Kerianne Flynn, Tom Donahue A.I. And it seemed that, in the 21st century, this was a horrible message to be sending and very shocking. 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? And it was fantastic. . GROSS: So what was your strategy to try to open the door to more women directors? The EEOC functions in total confidentiality. They're both featured in the new documentary about that campaign called "This Changes Everything.". And then I saw it everywhere. So do you have any idea where things stand? 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.". Overview. LANDGRAF: And Im here to say its there. So I had a lot of training. 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." Chinese Simple And hopefully, young boys will see that a male-directed this and think I can do that too. 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 . After a break, I'll talk more with Geena Davis about her movie career, and Bruce Talamon will talk about taking photos of soul, funk and R&B stars of the '70s . 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. Better yet, it also explains how folks are now pushing back and using the law, media pressure and other forms of recourse to change the numbers. Documentary . Incidentally, both of these docs conspicuously have no interviews with several of the industrys best known and most lauded female directors, such as Kathryn Bigelow and Sofia Coppola, who have expressed the view, at least in Bigelows case, that they much prefer to be seen as simply directors, not as female directors. 0000001895 00000 n But that was my plan. I'm Terry Gross, and this is FRESH AIR. A military-trained assassin comes out of hiding to protect the daughter she's never met from ruthless criminals gunning for revenge. So I never tried anything. Japanese Running time: 1 hour 36 minutes. 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. Although a large part of this documentary focuses on the fact that female directors do not get work and have trouble getting hired, and the director of this film. 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That movie was directed by Kim Pierce who was my first female director but it was a massively male crew. Director. And but I just assumed kids media would be gender-balanced, and wholesome, and good for you, and all that. What is the connection? It often seems that these worlds are completely . GROSS: Well, what was wrong with that plan? DAVIS: It did well. Copyright 2019 NPR. 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. Is that why because no studio heads appeared in this film because theyre so embarrassed? GROSS: Maria Giese, let me move on to you. GROSS: So Geena Davis, I have a few questions for you about your career. 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. GROSS: In "A League Of Their Own." MARTIN: about women in Hollywood and the underrepresentation of women in Hollywood? There's no question about it. (Yes, I am aware that even comparing these two films critically risks replicating the very same divide-and-rule strategies that have forced female filmmakers to compete with each other for years rather than collaborate and collectivize. You can pick up a lot on a set. GROSS: What did you like about archery? UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I was very lucky because Greys Anatomy was developed under the network presence. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I did. French I haven't really ever had to describe what it's about. Geena Davis is also an executive producer of the film. I was a feminist since I was 10-years-old because I came from a very right-wing family. Music: Leigh Roberts, Allison Piccioni But it was television that showed me there it was another way, and it was a show called MASH. 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. 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. 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 you try really hard to, like, throw him off of you. 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. Oh, we forgot. 0000010605 00000 n 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. Was it a centering thing for you - focus? DAVIS: Well, I mean, come on. And it hasnt changed in all that time. DONAHUE: Its funny. GIESE: So in - five months after they received that letter from the ACLU, they began their investigation. It will be on air. He was the photographer for "Soul Train" and took photos for Jet, Ebony and the black-owned LA newspaper Soul. So I had been very unathletic as a kid. After a break, I'll talk more with Geena Davis about her movie career, and Bruce Talamon will talk about taking photos of soul, funk and R&B stars of the '70s. A lot of negative reaction in the press too like, oh, no, the world is ruined now. 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. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Feud is so, so good. GROSS: So the EEOC has been conducting an investigation into systemic discrimination against women directors. Give us some of the numbers that you find most disturbing. And Im like, yay, I cant wait. 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. DAVIS: Oh, so - gosh. And she doesnt know its her period because she had never been taught that by her mother. . . 0000043924 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. MORETZ: The biggest part of the movie is when she gets her period for the first time in the shower. A work of startling force, exhaustive reporting, and telling anecdote . Addeddate 2014-09-21 09:00:08 Identifier pdfy-Skb-ch_k7psDm90Q Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t1mh0f786 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 9.0 Ppi 300 Scanner Internet Archive Python library 0.6.3 Follow officers from a South Carolina sheriffs department as they urgently search for individuals who've disappeared under troubling circumstances. 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. MARTIN: Well, you do interview one executive, the head of FX, John Landgraf. I'm Terry Gross. 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. Russian This Changes Everything is, improbably, Kleins most optimistic book. Forget everything you think you know about global warming. . GROSS: It's like, he's short; you're really tall. 0000006173 00000 n They're both featured in the new documentary "This Changes Everything" about discrimination against women in front of and behind the camera in Hollywood.

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