2019 | Maturity Rating: 13+ | 1h 35m | Documentary Films. 0000000976 00000 n In 2014, the book won the Hilary Weston Writers Trust Prize for Nonfiction, Canadas most prestigious award for non-fiction. "This Changes Everything" tries to get its arms around a lot, from appalling anecdotes of abhorrent behavior to deep historical context from the silent era to the modern-day repercussions of the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Its one of the best things thats ever happened in my professional career. JOHN LANDGRAF, HEAD, FX: I had this unconscious bias that we would have to be making sacrifices to hire people with less experience. 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. I'm going to ask you to describe the premise. GROSS: Did you think of it as discrimination against older women? The authoritative record of NPRs programming is the audio record. LANDGRAF: And Im here to say its there. I did get work, and it was through my model agency that I got my first acting job. 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. Dutch Its not about carbonits about capitalism. Accuracy and availability may vary. And hopefully, young boys will see that a male-directed this and think I can do that too. 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. DONAHUE: Sure. I haven't really ever had to describe what it's about. And then Susan Sarandon comes out. A work of startling force, exhaustive reporting, and telling anecdote . Copyright 2019 NPR. This Changes Everything (2019) Watch Now . (Laughter). And so I learned at 36 that I actually was coordinated. GIESE: Yes, Title VII, which was written into law in 1964 by President Johnson. And Im like, yay, I cant wait. Emerging economies in the developing world have tried to follow the western model for economic prosperity, with arguably the most marked example of the negative consequences being in China where many cities are continually shrouded in smog, some children in those cities who have never seen a blue sky. Based on a true story. GROSS: This is FRESH AIR. That said, older viewers are likely to have some feedback (as in the passive-aggressive kind of feedback comedian Hannah Gadsby so vividly describes in Nanette) they might wish they could share with the filmmakers. 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. Kleinexposes the myths that are clouding the climate debate. :{v^ L @";+Z\\UrcK+IK6z3uI+1| x;B Since then it has been shown 1000s of times in . Turkish Bosnian ELLEN POMPEO: All the parts that I had been auditioning for were the girlfriend or the wife, so I did notice immediately that, oh, I get to be the lead role. So I'm wondering if you think it's having that kind of effect. That so it was already a conversation that started to happen when I start developing the film with my producing partner. I get to be a doctor. Read her answers to our Movie Love Questionnaire here. Korean 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. I went down to the downtown LA courthouse, and I found that six very courageous women in the Directors Guild in 1979 had got the DGA, our union, to file a class action lawsuit against several major studios. 0000007957 00000 n Youll get much less salary because you guys dont really matter and well replace you if you have any complaints. SANDRA OH: Shonda was able to make half of her cast not white. Flawed as it is, This Changes Everything matters and maybe itll even make a difference. And it was just, you know, doing a video with a casting assistant. 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 did being a model for Victoria's Secret lead to having this part where you're in your underwear in the dressing room? In partnership with The Guardian, we are very proud to unveil this first ever sneak peek at the work-in-progress companion documentary film to This Changes Everything, directed by Avi Lewis. All rights reserved. Featured in the movie is "film director Maria Giese, who was a key instigator of the ACLU and federal investigations, has been a feminist activist in . DONAHUE: They tend to deny the problem after seeing the film. 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. MARTIN: Have you felt your career jeopardized by your unspokeness about this? Did you think of it as there not being enough roles for women in their 40s? And then maybe five years later, another movie comes out with a female star. The film is at its best when it gives the smart, talented, diverse collection of women the opportunity to tell their stories, relive their battles and share their feelings. Venue: Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF Docs) Things were looking good for you after film school. I mean dont you just want to throw your shoes at the screen? He was the photographer for "Soul Train" and took photos for Jet, Ebony and the black-owned LA newspaper Soul. He could hardly have timed it . Climate change isnt just another issue to be neatly filed between taxes and health care. You can pick up a lot on a set. Polish DAVIS: Right. Film Review: 'This Changes Everything' Before the #MeToo movement began, director Tom Donahue began assembling a documentary about gender inequality in Hollywood. Young Queen Charlotte's marriage to King George of England sparks an epic love story and transforms high society in this "Bridgerton" universe prequel. MARTIN: And youre saying that entertainment really does matter. A right wing think tank provides its view that the climate change issue needs to be dealt with through market forces. Bring me my tiny violin. 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. But we were stunned at the reaction that was instant - cover of Time magazine and all that stuff. And this guy on the show named Alan Alda, who I was learning everything about. And - but nobody, and least of all him, nobody ever said, you realize you don't have to come every day? It was my first audition, and they had called model agencies to say, send any models who can act for an audition. DAVIS: Well, the bigger part was the (laughter) - that Sydney liked my audition. Romanian - three years and seven months going. GROSS: Geena Davis, let me bring you back into the conversation. Finally, inevitably, there will be viewers who may feel understandably perplexed as to why, even though an end credit points out that 75 percent of the crew that worked on this film was female, its still a man getting the directors credit here, and a man (Stefano Ferrari) taking the director of photography credit, especially when there are so many outstanding female cinematographers emerging now. I'm Terry Gross. And there's a scene where you come out in - why don't you describe the costume. 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. He's got you pinned against a car. In 2018, 92 percent of the directors of the top 250 domestic releases were men. And the ending's kind of similar, where, you know, they kind of ride off a cliff, and you drive off a cliff. Read Transcript EXPAND. GROSS: But you're in your underwear. 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. 77 0 obj <> endobj xref 77 34 0000000016 00000 n But then the film loses momentum when it wanders into the weeds of various lawsuits and instances of workplace discrimination. MARTIN: Talk to me about the Geena Davis Institute which you founded years ago. Downloads only available on ad-free plans. Which is why its so jarring and even bizarre that once the credits roll, the first words we see are: Directed by Tom Donahue. Sandra Oh speaks movingly about The Joy Luck Club and its singularity at the time, one of the only films to put female Asian characters at the center of its story. Rent. So let me just play that clip. GROSS: So the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media has done a lot of research on the numbers. Slovene And I explained to them why I thought that this was so significant on a global level. Donahue is a longtime documentarian whose work includes Thank You for Your Service, about how the government has failed the U.S. military in treating mental health issues, and Guest of Cindy Sherman. Those are pretty specific topics. Documentary . PG. 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 . Didnt seem to happen. And womens films do make more money and have, I think, over the last three years. GROSS: came into play here, too, because there's more of you for Dustin Hoffman to be fazed by when he walks in. Harvey Weinstein, of course, comes to mind. Production companies: CreativeChaos vmg, New Plot Films, US Release 2019. Well, we call the film This Changes Everything, because its about kind of why that doesnt happen. What if confronting the climate crisis is the best chance we'll ever get to build a better world? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There is nothing funny here. Ukrainian, Arabic And I'd like to see if I could do that. What Shows Have Been Renewed or Canceled. I'm Terry Gross, and this is FRESH AIR. Director of photography: Stefano Ferrari But as time went on and I became more empowered, I started really noticing. 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 I think the first thing to change will be on screen. A lot of negative reaction in the press too like, oh, no, the world is ruined now. This film is about gender inequality in the TV and movie industry and they couldn't hire a woman to direct this?! Not rated. MARTIN: about women in Hollywood and the underrepresentation of women in Hollywood? I think my peers and I were always operating under the assumption that you should never complain about anything. DAVIS: Exactly. Women are socialized to go along with the dominant patriarch. And I also expected it to be not true anymore by the time I would get to that age. . So I knew the way to move the numbers and to make real significant change was through legal action. This documentary takes a deep look at gender disparity in Hollywood through the eyes of well-known actresses and female filmmakers. DONAHUE: Hopefully not. Female. This Changes Everything is a 2018 American documentary film, directed by Tom Donahue. Written with an elegant blend of science, statistics, field reports and personal insight, it does not paralyze but buoys the reader. MICHEL MARTIN, CONTRIBUTOR: Geena Davis, Tom Donahue, thank you so much for talking to us. GIESE: Well, that was the thing. So I decided I wanted to take up a sport in the real-life way and not the movie version. 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. I didn't want to try any sports because I was - I call it physically shy. We can reflect the future now and it will make it happen. It was just like the way it was, and, you know, being sexy and all that kind of stuff. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Everyone, listen up, please. We were made to feel very dispensable. Production company: Creative Chaos Ventures And I'd be like, which part exactly? Just recently, we learned that Andrea Arnolds work directing Big Little Lies season two reportedly was altered significantly to fit the style of season one director Jean-Marc Valle. Can you talk about that? The credits mention that 75 percent of the crew working on the film was female, but it sort of seems like a no-brainer to have a woman direct the movie about the fact that women dont direct enough movies. But to such diverse representation up on screens, battles must be fought, executives persuaded and, most of all, women hired to write, direct, produce and advocate for such stories in the first place. - It didn't change anything. Maria Giese is a director who felt shut out of directing because she's a woman. GIESE: I first went to the EEOC in 2013. And then I had to play the best baseball player anyone has ever seen hold a bat. - because it was a big hit. MARTIN: But Geena, this has to have happened to you throughout your career? 0000006173 00000 n GROSS: This is FRESH AIR. So you started your career as a model. Which really isn't very old. How did you take up archery? Its just very elevated because its in the entertainment world. Well, Tom, talk a little about what the problem is if you would. You were working with Dustin Hoffman. So theres something really deep and systemic going on. 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. GEENA DAVIS, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER, THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING: Thank you. 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. And I learned that he was he called himself a feminist. 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. makes a muscular case for global warming as the defining, cross-sectional issue of our era., [A]robust new polemic . This Changes Everything has been translated into 27 languages: Arabic 0000045243 00000 n GROSS: So what about other women you knew from film school? MARTIN: Do you think its because your initial focus was on kids television? Turkish And I could see that I was not going to make any headway with them. Oh, we forgot. So it was all very shocking and great because what it really - well, first of all, I'll tell you how it affected me. But these stories matter. 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. First Look: This Changes Everything, the Documentary. GROSS: How did you decide to create your institute? 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. We'll be right back. And that's what I set my mind to do. Oh my god, of course we're gonna make all these female empowerment films. Kleins sharp analysis makes a compelling case that a mass awakening is part of the answer., Gripping and dramatic . Romanian Your first movie role, "Tootsie," you're in your underwear in the film. Executive Producers: Geena Davis, Steve Edwards, Regina Scully, Simone Pero, Madeline Di Nonno, Jennie Peters, Patty Casby, Ku-Ling Yurman (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. It ultimately all worked out for me, but the likelihood of becoming a famous model was actually pretty slim, and I didn't. . 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. I think the big advantage was that people who make kids entertainment do it because they care about kids. It couldn't be timelier, and its simmering feeling of frustration is palpable. . And very quickly, the coaches were saying, you know, you have a lot of untapped athletic ability. 0000004713 00000 n It takes an incisive look at the history, empirical evidence, and systemic forces that foster gender discrimination and thus reinforce disparity in our culture. GROSS: And doesn't know where to put his eyes. DAVIS: Yes. 0000004937 00000 n 0000010793 00000 n The result is the most momentous and contentious environmental book since Silent Spring. And for a very brief time, the nature of that change is still up to us. Ukrainian. 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%. GROSS: It's like, he's short; you're really tall. 0000005443 00000 n 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. Actress Geena Davis rallies Meryl Streep, Shonda Rhimes, Reese Witherspoon and others in this powerful . 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. MORETZ: The biggest part of the movie is when she gets her period for the first time in the shower. DONAHUE: And then Patricia Arquette got up at the Oscars and demanded equal pay. Be the first to contribute. UV*-Z=mCFv^v -9ty9D,uRT]"-%x78hDntTKtUl1'=;+p#\>sj.`#SZO6:1`]pu*]!!Gqq QhfNtvR1#k. There's far fewer movies with a female lead character. What are we doing? GROSS: Geena Davis, Maria Giese, thank you both so much for talking with us. One of the films main, salient points is that it isnt all that hard to find gifted, visionary women to direct, and that the powers that beagents, studio executives, producers, etc.simply havent bothered to look for far too long. Go behind the scenes of Netflix TV shows and movies, see what's coming soon and watch bonus videos on. And we started to have meetings with them. From Thelma & Louise to A League of Their Own, the Oscar-winning actress Geena Davis made her name with her strong female characters. Russian But that was my plan. . Anyone who then told me or told any other journalist in the future, its too hard, no, its not. There are going to be so many more movies with women starring and everything. I could do that too. . DONAHUE: Its funny. What is the connection? Give us some of the numbers that you find most disturbing. watch "This Changes Everything" streaming on Netflix, Hoopla, Netflix basic with Ads. Chinese Simple It's really fun and incredibly challenging. DONAHUE: Well, two things. 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. Croatian 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. GROSS: If you're just joining us, my guests are both featured in the new documentary "This Changes Everything" about discrimination against women in Hollywood. So sue me.) And so it kind of made sense in that way. Why hasnt it changed before now? Producers: Ilan Arboleda, Kerianne Flynn, Tom Donahue I very much expected that that would not be the case. Bulgarian The main thing that's very different is now it's completely OK to talk about this stuff. Italian But on the other hand, I sort of felt like, well, this is what was supposed to happen. And they started to reach out to interview many, many women, as many women directors as they could. 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. 0000049660 00000 n 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. 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 Hollywoods systematic sexism and discrimination. 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. A star-studded documentary about gender inequality in film and TV is equal parts history lesson and constructive criticism. And why does that matter? Like competing - if you're nervous, your shot's going to be off. And for me, the word feminist was a bad word in my house. MARTIN: You make the connection in the film that its not just about, you know, the job, its the conditions at the job, that it is directly connected to these vicious examples of sexual harassment and abuse that women have experienced that have now come to the fore. 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Along with many others who spoke to Everythings director Tom Donahue (who also made the docs Casting By andThank You for Your Service), like Natalie Portman and Chloe Grace Moretz, Davis talks without self-pity about feeling objectified by the filmmaking process. And only one woman has won the best-director Oscar in the awards 90-year history: Kathryn Bigelow, for The Hurt Locker, with only a small handful of others even being nominated. 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. He said no, that's the whole point is competing. 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. Here it is. MARTIN: Did you think it was as bad as it is? I thought, this is incredibly unfair, and I don't want other people deciding that I have to work less, you know, and taking away opportunities. Norwegian Tom Donahue . With an impressive cast of: Geena Davis, Meryl . 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. Well, do they have any photos of her in a bathing suit? You putting men in charge basically driving women and people of color out. Norwegian Good Deed Entertainment (Theatrical Premiere), Starz (Broadcast), VOD, TVOD. And it also struck a nerve that none of us expected. But on the way, they must confront what it means to be different. And it seemed that, in the 21st century, this was a horrible message to be sending and very shocking. 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.) So there's no way for us to really know where the investigation is, even though it's now, oh - what? And a buddy movies are always men's movies. 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: So Geena Davis, I have a few questions for you about your career. The numbers have obviously not improved for decades. 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. Is that why because no studio heads appeared in this film because theyre so embarrassed? By the end, it feels like This Changes Everything is just that little bit too much behind the curve of history, despite the boo and hiss-prompting appearances from President Donald Trump and footage of the Womens March. French . What happened after that? GROSS: But you were with Sydney Pollack. 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. This Changes Everything On Netflix Now! It couldnt be timelier, and its simmering feeling of frustration is palpable. 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. Davis and director Maria Giese discuss the dramatic disparities on screen. DAVIS: Not at all. DAVIS: Well, I definitely see a big shift happening in Hollywood in the past couple of years since #MeToo and Time's Up. We can talk about it and everybody is talking about it, you know. This sudden change in how people reacted when they recognized me was very, very pronounced. Before that, she was the film critic for The Associated Press for nearly 15 years and co-hosted the public television series "Ebert Presents At the Movies" opposite Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, with Roger Ebert serving as managing editor. And so it's just a battle with yourself the whole time. My guest Geena Davis starred in two movies about female empowerment - "Thelma & Louise" and "A League Of Their Own." MARTIN: To that point, heres a scene from the film which speaks with that with Kimberly Pierce, the director, and Chloe Grace Moretz. 0000005016 00000 n And she founded an institute to study gender discrimination in Hollywood. So do you have any idea where things stand? UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You directed an episode of it. This Changes Everything is a documentary directed by Tom Donahue that examines and reflects upon the gender disparity within the entertainment industry. Well, get her back. . They're both featured in the new documentary "This Changes Everything" about discrimination against women in front of and behind the camera in Hollywood. 0000001895 00000 n This is FRESH AIR. 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. DAVIS: They do. Spanish 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. jerry shot in face at bus stop 2006, is boyer coe still alive,
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