They're both featured in the new documentary "This Changes Everything" about discrimination against women in front of and behind the camera in Hollywood. Theres no one they can complain to. DAVIS: Oh, no. And her actions led to an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission investigation into systemic discrimination against women directors in Hollywood. Klein meticulously builds the case for how massively reducing our greenhouse emissions is our best chance to simultaneously reduce gaping inequalities, re-imagine our broken democracies, and rebuild our gutted local economies. DAVIS: Well, it did in a way. So when I got back from Cannes, I was represented at William Morris Agency, and basically nothing happened. So Geena, I think some people might hear that and go, Oh, thats too bad but why? 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. Kleins urgency and outrage is balanced by meticulous documentation and passionate argument. What happened after that? . At the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival, the film was first runner-up for the People's Choice Award: Documentaries. -Entertainment Weekly 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. 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. 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. MARTIN: But Geena, this has to have happened to you throughout your career? He's got you pinned against a car. 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. Italian 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. Romanian GROSS: came into play here, too, because there's more of you for Dustin Hoffman to be fazed by when he walks in. In 2004, she founded the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media. Original filename: Naomi Klein - This Changes Everything.pdf URL: https://pdf.yt/d/Skb-ch_k7psDm90Q Copyright 2019 NPR. And I went, and they said, wear a bathing suit under your clothes because if you do well at the reading, they'll ask to see you in your bathing suit. And for me, the word feminist was a bad word in my house. Actress Geena Davis rallies Meryl Streep, Shonda Rhimes, Reese Witherspoon and others in this powerful documentary. GROSS: And so it's a kind of - I think at the time, people were comparing it to Butch Cassidy. So I had a lot of training. LA Times. MARIA GIESE: My first feature film directing job out of graduate film school was in England, not in the United States. We can talk about it and everybody is talking about it, you know. Against the backdrop of Greece in crisis, a powerful social movement rises. All rights reserved. . Well, we call the film This Changes Everything, because its about kind of why that doesnt happen. It takes a bit of time for the documentary to find its groove. MARTIN: You know one of the things that really fascinated me about the film is that you point out it wasnt always this way. A star-studded documentary about gender inequality in film and TV is equal parts history lesson and constructive criticism. In October, at a special ceremony, she'll receive an honorary Oscar, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. 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. TAX ID# 86-1943473, Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, PO Box 9615, Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91701. Thats the problem. Why hasnt it changed before now? Spanish Nobody complained about anything because you felt that it would damage your career. Ukrainian, Arabic This Changes Everything Directed by: Tom Donahue Produced by: Ilan Arboleda, Kerianne Flynn, Tom Donahue Executive Producers: Geena Davis, Steve Edwards, Regina Scully, Simone Pero, Madeline Di Nonno, Jennie Peters, Patty Casby, Ku-Ling Yurman Co-Producers: Jessicya Materano, Robin Kelleher Production companies: CreativeChaos vmg, New Plot Films 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. When you have 150 men on set and one woman, how is that woman protected? Slovene But how can you change the world if you've taken yourself out of it? DAVIS: Oh, I don't know which one you mean. You know, the "Teletubbies" are gender-balanced; I don't know if you can tell. I did get work, and it was through my model agency that I got my first acting job. Tomatometer 18 Reviews. Maleeha Lodhi joins the program to explain tensions between Pakistan and India. And so it was something they had no idea they were doing, and the data changed everything for them. If she can see it, she can be it. Terms Privacy Policy For Our Members Access, All rights reserved. MARTIN: So the title of the film, we start with that, This Changes Everything. This is something that you say in the film. GROSS: Maria Giese, let me move on to you. And this is according to the Center for the Study of Women and Television and Film in San Diego State University. 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. I get to be a doctor. Well, get her back. . Directed by Avi Lewis, and inspired by Naomi Kleins international non-fiction bestsellerThis Changes Everything, the film presents seven powerful portraits of communities on the front lines, from Montanas Powder River Basin to the Alberta Tar Sands, from the coast of South India to Beijing and beyond. 10 Video Games That Need a Live Action Adaptation, 2023's Most Anticipated Sequels, Prequels, and Spin-offs. A lot of negative reaction in the press too like, oh, no, the world is ruined now. . 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. So I learned about being a feminist through the activism of a man. And he just does it. We dont have to wait for things to turn around in real life. The Geena Davis Institute is a nonprofit organization exempt from federal income tax under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Told first-hand by some of Hollywoods 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. JOHN LANDGRAF, HEAD, FX: I had this unconscious bias that we would have to be making sacrifices to hire people with less experience. He's just decided that that's what he's going to do. I felt very unhappy with having that sort of imposed on me by other people. 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. And you try really hard to, like, throw him off of you. 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 . makes a muscular case for global warming as the defining, cross-sectional issue of our era. DAVIS: Yes. Several women serve as executive producers, including Davis.). 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. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: They dont care that Im black. . Its not about carbonits about capitalism. 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. From left, Joelle Dobrow, Nell Cox, Susan Nimoy, Dolores Ferraro, Lynne Littman and Victoria Hochberg in 1980. Downloads only available on ad-free plans. GROSS: So what about other women you knew from film school? And womens films do make more money and have, I think, over the last three years. GROSS: So you and your friend, played by Susan Sarandon - they go on a trip together, have a lot of drinks in a bar, guy comes up to you, asked to dance with you. He said no, that's the whole point is competing. The Book, Documentary & Impact Project Film schools are now half female. And I was kind of good at all of it. Author interview. I'm Terry Gross. So I'm wondering if you think it's having that kind of effect. And so it kind of made sense in that way. MARTIN: In the age of silent films, women directed a lot of films. I felt its my duty as a feminist, male or otherwise. 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. This is FRESH AIR. French But I loved it. As defeated as one feels when you dont see a change happening, I really do think that it can and that it will. DAVIS: In "A League Of Their Own," yeah. Norwegian What if confronting the climate crisis is the best chance well ever get to build a better world? Ditto The First Wives Club, and, more recently, Frozen and Hidden Figures.. GROSS: Geena Davis, Maria Giese, thank you both so much for talking with us. 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. Well, Tom, talk a little about what the problem is if you would. Bosnian Nothing is certain. A group of disillusioned young women have disappeared. 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. She's interesting. GROSS: In "A League Of Their Own." Oh, no, we can't. I was a feminist since I was 10-years-old because I came from a very right-wing family. 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. 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 . I always say go through the script and change it. Spanish Finnish [Klein] writes of a decisive battle for the fate of the earth in which we either take back control of the planet from the capitalists who are destroying it or watch it all burn.. MARTIN: Well, you do interview one executive, the head of FX, John Landgraf. GROSS: So Geena Davis, I have a few questions for you about your career. All but one of the women were interviewed for this film, and Donahue takes his time to carefully lay out the details and takeaways of their efforts (which led the D.G.A. Still. Progress will happen when men take a stand, an emphatic Meryl Streep says. And it hasnt changed in all that time. Did you think of it as there not being enough roles for women in their 40s? LANDGRAF: And maybe that the talent wouldnt be there. 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. Can you talk about that? DONAHUE: Sure. The main thing that's very different is now it's completely OK to talk about this stuff. And this is a buddy movie that's a women's movie. GROSS: A battle with yourself to not battle with yourself. And so I learned at 36 that I actually was coordinated. And if you're just joining us, my guest is actor Geena Davis and director Maria Giese. The authoritative record of NPRs programming is the audio record. And I'd like to see if I could do that. I'm Terry Gross. LANDGRAF: And Im here to say its there. So at 41, I took it up and then became absolutely obsessed, as I do with things. 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. It will be on air. And I'm like, oh, my God, no. 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. Norwegian By what name was This Changes Everything (2018) officially released in India in English? (Laughter). So, like, it seems like a lot of the change is happening from women like that who are creating the change themselves. And I'd be like, which part exactly? Synopsis Based on Naomi Klein's book This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate, a look at how people in various communities around the world play a role in the ongoing climate change debate and how they're affecting change in trying to prevent the environmental destruction of our planet. And you wouldnt know it because of how it turns out, four percent post his school. 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? Which really isn't very old. Danish 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. Go behind the scenes of Netflix TV shows and movies, see what's coming soon and watch bonus videos on. 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