Which is why none of them appeared in this film? DAVIS: Right. So I figured, well, I mean, what were the odds anyway I was going to be in a Sydney Pollack movie with Dustin Hoffman? She's receiving an honorary Oscar this year, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, at a special ceremony in October. And for me, it was no big deal to want to take the man until here and try to tell this story. It's a lonely sport because you're out there for hours every day shooting by yourself. GEENA DAVIS: Well, it was pretty dramatic. I'm talking about family-rated films. It looks like we don't have any synopsis for this title yet. And it hasnt changed in all that time. Like why do I care? The result is the most momentous and contentious environmental book since Silent Spring. And then I was watching the Olympics in Atlanta on TV and saw the archery competing, and I thought, wow, that is so beautiful and dramatic. So why does the behind the camera representation matter so much? This documentary on climate change and its causes focuses largely on stories of human connection to the land, some who try to control the land, while others who see humans as temporary stewards of the land to pass to future generations. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Everyone, listen up, please. a scene from This Changes Everything, the documentary. GROSS: In "A League Of Their Own." Director Tom Donahue Stars Reese Witherspoon Mira Nair This Changes Everything. . 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 in May 2015, The New York Times published the ACLU's 15-page letter to the EEOC and to other government agencies, calling for an industry-wide federal investigation into systemic discrimination against women directors. The authoritative record of NPRs programming is the audio record. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There is nothing funny here. A work of startling force, exhaustive reporting, and telling anecdote . A lot of negative reaction in the press too like, oh, no, the world is ruined now. A really decent doc, but like 99% of the reviews here, I'm completely dumbfounded why they hired a MALE to direct this. Your AMC Ticket Confirmation# can be found in your order confirmation email. That so it was already a conversation that started to happen when I start developing the film with my producing partner. Because the next movie somebody makes could be gender-balanced. German GROSS: But you were with Sydney Pollack. DONAHUE: Well, two things. Most importantly, the film seeks pathways and solutions from within and outside the industry, and around the world. 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. 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. Copyright 2019 NPR. And your role is as the entertainment director of a casino. I mean you know. Its always been that way. I haven't really ever had to describe what it's about. And everything gets in the way of that, every possible thought you have, every different circumstance. Davis and director Maria Giese discuss the dramatic disparities on screen. We dont have to wait for things to turn around in real life. And so that was really fun. But that was my plan. This Changes Everything is a 2018 American documentary film, directed by Tom Donahue. 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. Channeling the hurried nature of a TV docuseries edited to cover an extremely broad topic in a limited amount of time, the first act layers a lot of too-brief sound bites albeit from an impressive array of influential women, including Reese Witherspoon and Shonda Rhimes over movie clips emphasizing the prevalence of machismo and misogyny (The Godfather, for example) to almost dizzying effect. Give us some of the numbers that you find most disturbing. And I could see that I was not going to make any headway with them. It often seems that these worlds are completely . GROSS: So what was your strategy to try to open the door to more women directors? Thelma & Louise was supposed to have done it. Why dont things change? DAVIS: Well, the bigger part was the (laughter) - that Sydney liked my audition. Running time: 1 hour 36 minutes. I mean dont you just want to throw your shoes at the screen? Global Release 2020, 2023 Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media. 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? 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 a buddy movies are always men's movies. MARTIN: I think it was Maya Angelou who said you cant be what you cant see. to unsuccessfully sue Warner Bros. and Columbia Pictures for discrimination). GROSS: It's like, he's short; you're really tall. You go out to the parking lot with him, and he starts to rape you. The Geena Davis Institute is a nonprofit organization exempt from federal income tax under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. As the staggering statistics on gender parity continue to demonstrate, though, not much has changed. Production companies: CreativeChaos vmg, New Plot Films, US Release 2019. TV-PG. GROSS: So you went to the ACLU, and then the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission became involved, too. And why does that matter? And this is a buddy movie that's a women's movie. I wasnt thinking, this is so unfair. You say in almost 100 years, only one woman has won an academy award for best director. Theyll just get somebody else. But for the most part, I saw appalling gender imbalance. And, you know, being harassed and all kinds of things going on, being not listened to, talked down to, all that stuff. MARTIN: So Geena, how do you stay in it though? As the actress and activist Geena Davis puts it in This Changes Everything, a new documentary about Hollywoods pervasive gender inequalities, each of those highly successful films with female leads (and in some cases, female filmmakers) had been expected to expand the opportunities for women, or so the media narrative went with each release. And it's a buddy movie. I'm Terry Gross. My guest Geena Davis starred in two movies about female empowerment - "Thelma & Louise" and "A League Of Their Own." . DAVIS: Oh, so - gosh. He refuses. 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. I never got another paying job. GIESE: I first went to the EEOC in 2013. . (Interestingly, the film was directed by a man, Tom Donahue. Overview. In this part of the interview, I'm going to talk more with Davis about her own movie career. Book & Film Study Guide. And I was horrified. . DAVIS: Well, thats what I was saying about earlier, it is a different time now that you actually can talk about these things and not suffer repercussions. Research shows a connection between kids' healthy self-esteem and positive portrayals in media. The first film you directed was shown at the Cannes Film Festival. 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. GROSS: How did you decide to create your institute? Yet we can seize this existential crisis to transform our failed economic system into something radically better. GEENA DAVIS, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER, THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING: Thank you. GROSS: Maria Giese, let me move on to you. And it seemed that, in the 21st century, this was a horrible message to be sending and very shocking. And it also struck a nerve that none of us expected. And hopefully, young boys will see that a male-directed this and think I can do that too. Provocative, compelling, and accessible to even the most climate-fatigued viewers,This Changes Everythingwill leave you refreshed and inspired, reflecting on the ties between us, the kind of lives we really want, and why the climate crisis is at the centre of it all. So I knew that we could invoke that law to be able to change things in a very significant way. I felt its my duty as a feminist, male or otherwise. Chinese Simple The epitome of WTF? 2019 | Maturity Rating: 13+ | 1h 35m | Documentary Films. 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 . And I think most people and certainly I did assume that kids entertainments are harmless, that they're - they might even be good for kids. Its an alarm that calls us to fix an economic system that is already failing us in many ways. And then I saw it everywhere. The film combines talking-head interviews with drill-down stats and the backstory on legal actions taken to force accountability from studio heads. That's why we've added a new "Diverse Representations" section to our reviews that will be rolling out on an ongoing basis. In 2004, she founded the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media to get the actual data comparing the number and types of male and female roles and to use that data to convince the industry of the need for change. 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. The feature documentary, This Changes Everything, narrated by Naomi and directed by Avi Lewis,premiered at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival, presented by Oscar Winning Director Alfonso Cuarn, and executive producers Seth Macfarlane, Shepard Fairey, and Danny Glover. 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. And she founded an institute to study gender discrimination in Hollywood. that women are now dominating that field because we just saw it on T.V. MARIA GIESE: My first feature film directing job out of graduate film school was in England, not in the United States. This sudden change in how people reacted when they recognized me was very, very pronounced. 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 we started to have meetings with them. Bulgarian Suddenly, they could see what they were doing, and weve yet to leave any meeting where somebody doesnt say, you just changed my project. Yeah. Copy may not be in its final form. GROSS: So part of your work was modeling for Victoria's Secret. So I decided I wanted to take up a sport in the real-life way and not the movie version. By what name was This Changes Everything (2018) officially released in India in English? An investigative look and analysis of gender disparity in Hollywood, featuring accounts from well-known actors, executives and artists in the Industry. We have been told the market will save us, when in fact the addiction to profit and growth is digging us in deeper every day. 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. And that action alone sent the numbers skyrocketing from 0.5% to 16% in just 10 years from 1985 to 1995. And they got really excited. The two opposing viewpoints can be seen in two western society examples, the first concerning the Alberta oil sands, and the second fossil fuel energy production and transportation in what is traditional Montana farmland. It's really fun and incredibly challenging. DAVIS: I think partly, back when I started, I wasnt thinking about that, even. So they looked east to the banks to basically the patriarchal systems in the east and so they created the studio system in the west. So what impact do you think it had both on audiences but also on Hollywood? And it was fantastic. Netflix | Apple TV | Amazon Video | Vudu | FandangoNOW | Kanopy | Hoopla, Directed by: Tom Donahue This Changes Everything makes this point very clear, while also seeking to spark initiative. 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. So I did. 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. MARTIN: And you do make a point of saying in the film that 75 percent of the crew are women. Determined to provide a ray of light for those under her care, a young nurse navigates the world of mental health and the diverse stories surrounding it. He was the photographer for "Soul Train" and took photos for Jet, Ebony and the black-owned LA newspaper Soul. AMANPOUR: Let me just give some of the statistics that you cite in the film. 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. 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. 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. I get to be a doctor. Catalan Maria Giese is a director who felt shut out of directing because she's a woman. So when I got back from Cannes, I was represented at William Morris Agency, and basically nothing happened. This Changes Everything is a brilliant explanation of why the climate crisis challenges us to abandon the core free market ideology of our time, restructure the global economy, and remake our political systems. This Changes Everything. DAVIS: Well, so my character - they told me from the beginning - was a former showgirl who, when she was getting too old to do that, went into management and was able to create a successful career for herself that way. Film schools are now half female. 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. MARTIN: Why do you think that was the click moment for you? And I'm like, oh, my God, no. It was a small budget, and we hoped somebody would see it and not object to the ending. OK. Let me just play a clip from him in the film. And I got the part. Hilary Weston Writers Trust Prize for Nonfiction. Here it is. JOIN NOW. . And I was like, you know, I was a huge fan of "GLOW" and very much wanted to do it. Watch all you want. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: When I called to say we were going to greenlight it, the male executive on the other end of the line literally hung up on me. GROSS: And you also are an archer - like bow and arrow archery. Unlike many works about the climate crisis, this is not a film that tries to scare the audience into action: it aims to empower. Actress Geena Davis rallies Meryl Streep, Shonda Rhimes, Reese Witherspoon and others in this . Tomatometer 18 Reviews. GROSS: This is the equal opportunity law. Lithuanian For the first thing I showed her, there were profoundly more male characters than female, and it was aimed at two-year- olds. 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. DONAHUE: I started the film a year before I actually asked Geena to come on board. I want to ask you about "Thelma & Louise." And so I thought, this is an enormous problem if we are training kids from the beginning that girls are second-class citizens. You used to make a movie a year. The coming of sound meant they needed big capital investment. MARTIN: about women in Hollywood and the underrepresentation of women in Hollywood? ', A work of startling force, exhaustive reporting, and telling anecdote . So I had a lot of training. 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 . GROSS: Geena Davis, let me bring you back into the conversation. 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. 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. We can talk about it and everybody is talking about it, you know. But it didnt take her long to realize that she was the exception and not the rule. Film Review: 'This Changes Everything' Before the #MeToo movement began, director Tom Donahue began assembling a documentary about gender inequality in Hollywood. but like a place where we actually want to live 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. They respond by organizing against fossil fuel extraction in their beloved Powder River Basin, and forming a new alliance with the Northern Cheyenne tribe to bring solar power to the nearby reservation. . So do you have any idea where things stand? I could do that too. GROSS: My guests are actor Geena Davis and director Maria Giese. Can you talk about that? We'll be right back. 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. There's no question about it. CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR: Now, whether in politics or science or any other field, one thing is for sure, we need more women now. You were attached to other projects. GIESE: So in - five months after they received that letter from the ACLU, they began their investigation. When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. I get to have opinions, I get to be smart. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Its one of the best things thats ever happened in my professional career. And her actions led to an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission investigation into systemic discrimination against women directors. If she can see it, she can be it. Terms Privacy Policy For Our Members Access, All rights reserved. MARTIN: In fact, there is a clip in the film where you talk about the fact that representation in actually entertainment can actually matter in the real world. And I started to do research. As an asteroid hurtles towards Earth with nothing to stop it, one determined teacher fights to keep her former students safe no matter the cost. And if you're just joining us, my guest is actor Geena Davis and director Maria Giese. Swedish You can pick up a lot on a set. DAVIS: Well, no, no. As defeated as one feels when you dont see a change happening, I really do think that it can and that it will. From left, Joelle Dobrow, Nell Cox, Susan Nimoy, Dolores Ferraro, Lynne Littman and Victoria Hochberg in 1980. Whats your first name? Ditto The First Wives Club, and, more recently, Frozen and Hidden Figures.. 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. GROSS: So the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media has done a lot of research on the numbers. . 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. It ultimately all worked out for me, but the likelihood of becoming a famous model was actually pretty slim, and I didn't. And it was just, you know, doing a video with a casting assistant. And so thats what I did and, in fact, its proven that theyre incredibly grateful and horrified and embarrassed. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. This Changes Everything has been translated into 27 languages: Arabic Geena Davis is also an executive producer of the film. 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. 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. In October, at a special ceremony, she'll receive an honorary Oscar, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. I think the big advantage was that people who make kids entertainment do it because they care about kids. 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. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: They dont care that Im black. But the documentary "This Changes Everything" synthesizes all that data along with interviews from a truly mind-boggling array of A-listers both in front of and behind the camera to create a damning portrait of Hollywood's systematic sexism and discrimination. Audience Score 100+ Ratings. It takes a bit of time for the documentary to find its groove. They could say, what was I doing? GIESE: Well, that was the thing. Mike and Alexis, a Montana goat ranching couple who see their dreams coated in oil from a broken pipeline. LANDGRAF: And Im here to say its there. This Changes Everything Review: Hollywoods Men, Called to Action, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/08/movies/this-changes-everything-review.html. You were working with Dustin Hoffman. Naomi Kleins This Changes Everything is a ground-breaking work on how climate change changes everything. 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? GROSS: So the EEOC has been conducting an investigation into systemic discrimination against women directors. So its kind of working. But how can you change the world if you've taken yourself out of it? 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 . Well, it meant a little ironically. And I also expected it to be not true anymore by the time I would get to that age. -Entertainment Weekly This documentary takes a deep look at gender disparity in Hollywood through the eyes of well-known actresses and female filmmakers. And I just want an excuse to be able to do that (laughter). And for me, the word feminist was a bad word in my house. 'This Changes Everything' Review: Compelling Documentary Tackles Hollywood Gender Inequality Head-On By Pete Hammond July 18, 2019 4:17pm At one point in the powerful and fascinating new. Be the first to contribute. Was it a centering thing for you - focus? In 2004, she founded the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media. So there's no way for us to really know where the investigation is, even though it's now, oh - what? And Kim and I are sitting there going like, well, respectfully, I dont think you know what youre talking about. Go behind the scenes of Netflix TV shows and movies, see what's coming soon and watch bonus videos on. MARTIN: Really? About the author. Like competing - if you're nervous, your shot's going to be off. Globe & Mail Croatian You had a small role. Geena Davis is also an executive producer of the film. That was the first time where I was ever like, I guess, men dont see us women equal in this industry. Kumi Naidoo,Former Director at Greenpeace International, Genuinely moving They're both featured in the new documentary "This Changes Everything" about discrimination against women in front of and behind the camera in Hollywood. DAVIS: Well, it was completely random in some ways. MARTIN: Did you think it was as bad as it is? . YES Magazine Being so tall, I just didn't want anybody to look at me, especially if I was going to be failing at a sport. Geena, I want to start with you. (Laughter). Bosnian 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. But on the other hand, I sort of felt like, well, this is what was supposed to happen. When you have 150 men on set and one woman, how is that woman protected? In the directors guild, there were only two women I think up until the 1960s who were members of the union. We also heard from director Maria Giese, who's also featured in the film "This Changes Everything." Turkish 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. And I explained to them why I thought that this was so significant on a global level. And for a very brief time, the nature of that change is still up to us. Bring me my tiny violin. You know, I mean, both are kind of unattainable. 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. By what name was This Changes Everything (2015) officially released in India in English? 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. Produced with New Plot Films in association with the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, David Yurman, and . Chinese Complex 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. She braids together the science, psychology, geopolitics, economics, ethics and activism that shape the climate question. What have they each done? I'm Terry Gross, and this is FRESH AIR. Oh, we forgot. Dutch makes a muscular case for global warming as the defining, cross-sectional issue of our era. . And so I did. See production, box office & company info, Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It, White Hot: The Rise & Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch, Like a Rolling Stone: The Life & Times of Ben Fong-Torres, Late Night with Seth Meyers: Milo Ventimiglia/Geena Davis/Ex Hex/Julian Dorio. And, you know, that's obviously an option that everybody can take. So, like, it seems like a lot of the change is happening from women like that who are creating the change themselves. She starts her own organization, the Geena Davis Institute, on gender in media to keep track of the imbalance. GROSS: So Geena Davis, I have a few questions for you about your career. And - but nobody, and least of all him, nobody ever said, you realize you don't have to come every day? Nothing is certain. You putting men in charge basically driving women and people of color out. 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. . Im an optimist. And womens films do make more money and have, I think, over the last three years. DAVIS: It was very specific, actually. And her actions led to an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission investigation into systemic discrimination against women directors in Hollywood. 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 . And when we looked at - when we first looked at TV shows, kids - the ratio of male to female characters on kids programs, specifically made for them, had the worst ratio of male to female characters. A new documentary explores how women in Hollywood are pushing for more representation in front of and behind the camera. 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