this changes everything documentary transcript

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. DAVIS: Hopefully not. For the rest of us, This Changes Everything will frustrate, enrage and maybe even inspire. MARIA GIESE: My first feature film directing job out of graduate film school was in England, not in the United States. But it didnt take her long to realize that she was the exception and not the rule. Swedish DAVIS: Absolutely, which is fantastic. MARTIN: Do you think its because your initial focus was on kids television? I want to ask you about "Thelma & Louise." . GROSS: So what was your strategy to try to open the door to more women directors? DAVIS: It was very specific, actually. So I knew the way to move the numbers and to make real significant change was through legal action. And I was really worried about coming off as if I didn't know anything, that people would be saying, she doesn't even know where to stand or what to do. TAX ID# 86-1943473, Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, PO Box 9615, Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91701. She's in Paris. JOIN NOW. 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. Once it finally begins to focus on the mission, however, This Changes Everything not only becomes engrossing but reveals itself as a crucial cri de coeur. 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. Klein and those impassioned protesters provide something that has been in short supply in the predecessors She's interesting. From left, Joelle Dobrow, Nell Cox, Susan Nimoy, Dolores Ferraro, Lynne Littman and Victoria Hochberg in 1980. Its an alarm that calls us to fix an economic system that is already failing us in many ways. 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. 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. But thats what we were worried about. LANDGRAF: The minute we open our door and we say, come express it here, the work got better. GROSS: So the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media has done a lot of research on the numbers. Youll get much less salary because you guys dont really matter and well replace you if you have any complaints. This Changes Everything. Unlike many works about the climate crisis, this is not a film that tries to scare the audience into action: it aims to empower. We dont have to wait for things to turn around in real life. 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. Watch all you want. There are going to be so many more movies with women starring and everything. So I think that's a big change that's happened. 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. The coming of sound meant they needed big capital investment. Of the top 100 grossing films of 2017, male-lead characters received twice as much screen time as female leads. TV-PG. Thats the problem. For more details, visit the official This Changes Everything website, where youll find more Press information and Endnotes. So Geena, will you just tell us what the title is referring to? . Portuguese - because it was a big hit. Finnish Produced by: Ilan Arboleda, Kerianne Flynn, Tom Donahue . French He's just decided that that's what he's going to do. Its always been that way. Accuracy and availability may vary. Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media is not a production company or talent agency.The organization does not solicit or accept autograph requests, manuscripts, project ideas, or other similar materials.If any such information is sent to us, we will return the material unread. 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. French You know, some shows are researched and all that and certainly harmless. 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. We should be showing kids that boys and girls share the same bicycle. VarietyMagazine, If you care about justice you must see this. Bring me my tiny violin. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: They dont care that Im black. Chinese Simple Globe & Mail This Changes Everything DOCUMENTARY Told first-hand by some of Hollywood's leading voices, This Changes Everything is a feature-length documentary that uncovers what is beneath what is one of the most confounding dilemmas in the entertainment industry- the under-representation and misrepresentation of women. Grieving the loss of a best friend she couldnt protect, an ex-bodyguard sets out to fulfill her dear friends last wish: sweet revenge. This Changes Everything. What if confronting the climate crisis is the best chance well ever get to build a better world? After the release of This Changes Everything book and film, Naomi went on a sold out tour to speak to audiences worldwide. When did things start to slow down in your acting career? . And so it kind of made sense in that way. Profoundly, embarrassing few. 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. At the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival, the film was first runner-up for the People's Choice Award: Documentaries. And you say in the film that you were watching something with your daughter. Turkish So I thats when I learned about the work of Geena in her institute and how important onscreen representation was. 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. She's got a handgun, pulls it on him, asks him to apologize. GROSS: How did you decide to create your institute? Over the course of 90 minutes, viewers will meet. I went down to the downtown LA courthouse, and I found that six very courageous women in the Directors Guild in 1979 had got the DGA, our union, to file a class action lawsuit against several major studios. And I got the part. Kumi Naidoo,Former Director at Greenpeace International, Genuinely moving The Book, Documentary & Impact Project DAVIS: Well, I definitely see a big shift happening in Hollywood in the past couple of years since #MeToo and Time's Up. Variety: Geena Davis Talks This Changes Everything Doc and Conscious Gender Bias in Behind-the-Scenes Hiring, Good Deed Entertainment: This Changes Everything (2019) Exclusive Interview with Geena Davis & Director Tom Donahue, PBS SoCal: Interview with Geena Davis and Tom Donahue on This Changes Everything, Deadline: This Changes Everything Review: Compelling Documentary Tackles Hollywood Gender Inequality Head-On, The New York Times: This Changes Everything Review: Hollywoods Men, Called to Action. To have these conversations with men, youre saying like, well, I dont think you should depict it that way and I think you should depict it this way. 2015, Documentary, 1h 29m. And they started to reach out to interview many, many women, as many women directors as they could. And for a very brief time, the nature of that change is still up to us. Harvey Weinstein, of course, comes to mind. Actress Geena Davis rallies Meryl Streep, Shonda Rhimes, Reese Witherspoon and others in this . Buy now. 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 . Interwoven with these stories of struggle is Kleins narration, connecting the carbon in the air with the economic system that put it there. In 2018, 92 percent of the directors of the top 250 domestic releases were men. MARTIN: So Geena, how do you stay in it though? 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. GROSS: And you also are an archer - like bow and arrow archery. DONAHUE: And then Patricia Arquette got up at the Oscars and demanded equal pay. DAVIS: Images are so powerful that it will impact real life. Well, do they have any photos of her in a bathing suit? Why dont things change? And then the second thing were unions. You used to make a movie a year. 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). GROSS: And you even competed to be on the Olympic archery team. I did get work, and it was through my model agency that I got my first acting job. Here it is. Tweets by NaomiAKlein. Film schools are now half female. I mean you know. What is the connection? DONAHUE: Sure. 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. The authoritative record of NPRs programming is the audio record. And this is a buddy movie that's a women's movie. This was my plan (laughter). Thelma & Louise was supposed to have done it. But we were stunned at the reaction that was instant - cover of Time magazine and all that stuff. And two and a half years later, I was a semifinalist for the Olympic trials. 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. She founded an institute, the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media. Maria Giese is a director who felt shut out of directing because she's a woman. MARTIN: So you can see it with kids entertainment? And then maybe five years later, another movie comes out with a female star. GROSS: But you were with Sydney Pollack. 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. 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. Co-Producers: Jessicya Materano, Robin Kelleher That so it was already a conversation that started to happen when I start developing the film with my producing partner. 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. In the directors guild, there were only two women I think up until the 1960s who were members of the union. 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. Oh, we forgot. 1 hr 30 min. Lithuanian I very much expected that that would not be the case. JOHN LANDGRAF, HEAD, FX: I had this unconscious bias that we would have to be making sacrifices to hire people with less experience. Because the next movie somebody makes could be gender-balanced. Also with us is director Maria Giese, who's featured in the film, too. This Changes Everything Review: Hollywoods Men, Called to Action, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/08/movies/this-changes-everything-review.html. The EEOC functions in total confidentiality. And I also expected it to be not true anymore by the time I would get to that age. Portuguese 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. 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. You putting men in charge basically driving women and people of color out. 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. And so I thought, this is an enormous problem if we are training kids from the beginning that girls are second-class citizens. 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. You were signed to a big agency. And I was kind of good at all of it. Polish DONAHUE: I started the film a year before I actually asked Geena to come on board. And it was just, you know, doing a video with a casting assistant. Geena, I want to start with you. A work of startling force, exhaustive reporting, and telling anecdote . I'm sure it made a lot of money. Downloads only available on ad-free plans. And they didn't ask - after I read the part, they didn't ask to see my bathing suit. 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. Audience Score 100+ Ratings. And it was fantastic. How did you take up archery? Some positive developments are shown in China and Germany specifically. DAVIS: Oh, no. You can pick up a lot on a set. . 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 was a small budget, and we hoped somebody would see it and not object to the ending. Still. GROSS: A battle with yourself to not battle with yourself. An investigative look and analysis of gender disparity in Hollywood, featuring accounts from well-known actors, executives and artists in the Industry. And then for a couple of movies after that, I had to learn other physical skills like horseback riding and taekwondo and fencing and ice skating and a lot of stuff. And that, for me, became a battle worth fighting for. 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: And youre saying that entertainment really does matter. So I did. Where's her bathing suit stuff? I get to have opinions, I get to be smart. GROSS: It's like, he's short; you're really tall. Author interview. . I decided that I would try becoming a model first because, at that time, Christie Brinkley and Lauren Hutton were being offered parts in movies. Hosting a Screening (note that licensing and contact info in this document are out of date / no longer active) Faith screening guide. a scene from This Changes Everything, the documentary. You hear so many women speaking up when they encounter injustice and openly talking about it. 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. On a platform out at sea, they have formed The Community - a new type of society and a better way of living. We also heard from director Maria Giese, who's also featured in the film "This Changes Everything." LA Times. We can talk about it and everybody is talking about it, you know. Spanish Now, this changes everything. You know, it was, like, an amazing introduction. I'm Terry Gross. Geena Davis is also an executive producer of the film. . '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. But I loved it. ("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. 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. DAVIS: In "A League Of Their Own," yeah. 24 female police officers, firefighters, bodyguards, soldiers, athletes and stuntwomen team up by profession to compete for survival on a remote island. Swedish What have they each done? Actress Geena Davis rallies Meryl Streep, Shonda Rhimes, Reese Witherspoon and others in this . GEENA DAVIS: Well, it was pretty dramatic. Presenting portraits of communities on the front lines, This Changes Everything is an epic attempt to re-imagine the vast challenge of climate change. The extraordinary detail and richness of the cinematography inThis Changes Everythingprovides an epic canvas for this exploration of the greatest challenge of our time. But when she got older and roles started to dry up, she realized how unempowered women were in Hollywood. . 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. You had a small role. . DAVIS: It did well. 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. Crystal, a young indigenous leader in Tar Sands country, as she fights for access to a restricted military base in search of answers about an environmental disaster in progress. 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. Ukrainian. Finnish So do you have any idea where things stand? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There is nothing funny here. DONAHUE: Well, two things. 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. From Thelma & Louise to A League of Their Own, the Oscar-winning actress Geena Davis made her name with her strong female characters. MARTIN: But there are a number of women who are interviewed in this film whose careers have been damaged by speaking out. My guest Geena Davis starred in two movies about female empowerment - "Thelma & Louise" and "A League Of Their Own." Good Deed Entertainment (Theatrical Premiere), Starz (Broadcast), VOD, TVOD. If she can see it, she can be it. Terms Privacy Policy For Our Members Access, All rights reserved. And very quickly, the coaches were saying, you know, you have a lot of untapped athletic ability. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I was very lucky because Greys Anatomy was developed under the network presence. And then after about a year and a half, they told me they were going to pursue it. SANDRA OH: Shonda was able to make half of her cast not white. Research shows a connection between kids' healthy self-esteem and positive portrayals in media. An office worker who is insecure about her looks becomes a masked internet personality by night until a chain of ill-fated events overtakes her life. 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. Slovene makes a muscular case for global warming as the defining, cross-sectional issue of our era. I felt its my duty as a feminist, male or otherwise. Well, it meant a little ironically. Watch all you want. DONAHUE: Hopefully not. In 2004, she founded the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media. Norwegian In the course of this struggle, they help ignite a nationwide movement. And I started to do research. GIESE: Well, that was the thing. KIMBERLY PIERCE, DIRECTOR, CARRIE: I was being talked to and treated and questioned constantly and indifferently. Now we will see so many more female buddy pictures, female road movies or whatever and movies about female friendship. makes a muscular case for global warming as the defining, cross-sectional issue of our era., [A]robust new polemic . Geena Davis and Maria Giese, welcome to FRESH AIR. Danish And I learned that he was he called himself a feminist. So it was all very shocking and great because what it really - well, first of all, I'll tell you how it affected me. And it seemed that, in the 21st century, this was a horrible message to be sending and very shocking. This sudden change in how people reacted when they recognized me was very, very pronounced. 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. 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? 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. We've been talking with actor Geena Davis and director Maria Giese about the campaign for more representation of women behind and in front of the camera in movies and TV. 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. 10 Video Games That Need a Live Action Adaptation, 2023's Most Anticipated Sequels, Prequels, and Spin-offs. 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 knew I wanted to be in movies, as opposed to theater. . After feeling that she was shut out of directing because she's a woman, she became an activist. GROSS: This is FRESH AIR. DONAHUE: Yes. A determined detective continues his search for the truth behind Asia's largest drug organization and its elusive boss he has unfinished business with. There's no question about it. And a buddy movies are always men's movies. And so I learned at 36 that I actually was coordinated. 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 . 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. SCREENING GUIDES. Hilary Weston Writers Trust Prize for Nonfiction. I think theres some backlash. ', A work of startling force, exhaustive reporting, and telling anecdote . Script extract. DAVIS: Well, I was astounded that it happened. Romanian 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. Well, get her back. [2] 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. 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 . Maleeha Lodhi joins the program to explain tensions between Pakistan and India. So at 41, I took it up and then became absolutely obsessed, as I do with things. GROSS: So part of your work was modeling for Victoria's Secret. He said no, that's the whole point is competing. GROSS: So what about other women you knew from film school? Director Avi Lewis Writer The Geena Davis Institute is a nonprofit organization exempt from federal income tax under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Slovene And I was sure they must be right and waiting for this fabulous future that was coming. And, you know, that's obviously an option that everybody can take. 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. 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. GIESE: So in - five months after they received that letter from the ACLU, they began their investigation. MARTIN: Did you think it was as bad as it is? Tomatometer 18 Reviews. And I think the first thing to change will be on screen. Like competing - if you're nervous, your shot's going to be off. . 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. 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