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. . I'm sure it made a lot of money. You know, it was, like, an amazing introduction. You can pick up a lot on a set. This is the 21st century. A star-studded documentary about gender inequality in film and TV is equal parts history lesson and constructive criticism. This Changes Everything is a 2018 American documentary film, directed by Tom Donahue. Hosting a Screening (note that licensing and contact info in this document are out of date / no longer active) Faith screening guide. Co-Producers: Jessicya Materano, Robin Kelleher I think the big advantage was that people who make kids entertainment do it because they care about kids. Michael Mann tells Christiane Amanpour why we need to rethink what we eat and how we produce it. . Interwoven with these stories of struggle is Kleins narration, connecting the carbon in the air with the economic system that put it there. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: They dont care that Im black. Your AMC Ticket Confirmation# can be found in your order confirmation email. 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. You were working with Dustin Hoffman. [1] An examination of sexism in the Hollywood film industry, the film interviews a variety of actresses and women filmmakers on their experiences in the industry. And I thought, OK, well, I'll just become a model, and then they'll just offer me parts because obviously it's so much easier to become a supermodel (laughter). Like why do I care? Here it is. So you started your career as a model. 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. About the author. Norwegian This Changes Everything makes this point very clear, while also seeking to spark initiative. And it was just, you know, doing a video with a casting assistant. Thats the problem. TV-PG. I haven't really ever had to describe what it's about. Copy may not be in its final form. Portuguese AMANPOUR: Yes. I get to be a doctor. Nothing is certain. Russian It ultimately all worked out for me, but the likelihood of becoming a famous model was actually pretty slim, and I didn't. 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 . GROSS: This is FRESH AIR. 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 . And I just want an excuse to be able to do that (laughter). GROSS: Geena Davis, let me bring you back into the conversation. PBS is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. 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? 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? I could do that too. We'll be right back. 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. And, you know, that's obviously an option that everybody can take. Since then it has been shown 1000s of times in community screenings around the world. 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: Oh, so - gosh. And then the second thing were unions. GROSS: The one with the feathers and DAVIS: The one with the feathers and rhinestones? Like I think a lot of people have become familiar with the whole question of representation on screen. DAVIS: Yes. We should be showing kids that boys and girls share the same bicycle. And so I never asked any questions, and I didn't know that you didn't have to come every day. . This Changes Everything (2015) Plot Showing all 3 items Jump to: Summaries (3) Summaries 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. On a platform out at sea, they have formed The Community - a new type of society and a better way of living. She's best known for her starring roles in "Thelma & Louise," "A League Of Their Own," and "Beetlejuice." Published in 2014, it debuted at #5 on the New York Times list and at #1 in Canada. . Globe & Mail 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. 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 this is in every sector of society, its the same story. - three years and seven months going. So Geena, I think some people might hear that and go, Oh, thats too bad but why? Film schools are now half female. DONAHUE: There hasnt been a lot of change. Oh, no, we can't. Swedish Was it a centering thing for you - focus? 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. Or did you think, oh, it's me - no one wants me anymore? 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. And womens films do make more money and have, I think, over the last three years. For more details, visit the official This Changes Everything website, where youll find more Press information and Endnotes. So its kind of working. 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. The realization that a solution is possible, well, that changes everything Italian Chinese Simple And then maybe five years later, another movie comes out with a female star. DAVIS: It was very specific, actually. Its not going to benefit you. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. KIMBERLY PIERCE, DIRECTOR, CARRIE: I was being talked to and treated and questioned constantly and indifferently. . MARTIN: about women in Hollywood and the underrepresentation of women in Hollywood? Geena Davis is also an executive producer of 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. And very quickly, the coaches were saying, you know, you have a lot of untapped athletic ability. We were made to feel very dispensable. Turkish So it was all very shocking and great because what it really - well, first of all, I'll tell you how it affected me. MARIA GIESE: My first feature film directing job out of graduate film school was in England, not in the United States. And so it's just a battle with yourself the whole time. This Changes Everything 2015 Not Rated 1 h 29 m IMDb RATING 6.4 /10 614 YOUR RATING Rate Play trailer 2:22 1 Video 16 Photos Documentary 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. DAVIS: Well, no, no. 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. MARTIN: To that point, heres a scene from the film which speaks with that with Kimberly Pierce, the director, and Chloe Grace Moretz. 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. -Entertainment Weekly And your role is as the entertainment director of a casino. 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. Theres no one they can complain to. The film combines talking-head interviews with drill-down stats and the backstory on legal actions taken to force accountability from studio heads. GIESE: Well, I understood very quickly that the numbers in and of themselves inferred violations of Title VII. Korean You putting men in charge basically driving women and people of color out. 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. 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. On TV, you have women like Shonda Rhimes, Ava DuVernay, who's also in movies, and Reese Witherspoon not only doing shows that have women in them but also - certainly with Ava DuVernay, she makes a point of hiring women directors and often women directors of color for her series "Queen Sugar." And I'd be like, which part exactly? DAVIS: Absolutely, yes. a scene from This Changes Everything, the documentary. He's just decided that that's what he's going to do. DONAHUE: Hopefully not. Production companies: CreativeChaos vmg, New Plot Films, US Release 2019. -Alice Walker, author and activist, Purposely unsettling Ultimately encouraging 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. GROSS: Prevent that kind of behavior. Oh, we forgot. 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? 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. Running time: 1 hour 36 minutes. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I did. The New York Times Book Review called it The most momentous and contentious environmental book since Silent Spring.. The first film you directed was shown at the Cannes Film Festival. Copyright 2019 NPR. MARTIN: Talk to me about the Geena Davis Institute which you founded years ago. Norwegian I'm going to ask you to describe the premise. In this part of the interview, I'm going to talk more with Davis about her own movie career. 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 decided I wanted to take up a sport in the real-life way and not the movie version. What if confronting the climate crisis is the best chance well ever get to build a better world? So and it wasnt really until after Me Too and all that happened that we all realized, this is different now. DAVIS: Exactly. This Changes Everything takes an incisive look into the male-dominated film industry to examine those forces - both conscious and unconscious - that continue to foster the systemic underrepresentation and misrepresentation of women. MARTIN: Well, you do interview one executive, the head of FX, John Landgraf. And two and a half years later, I was a semifinalist for the Olympic trials. Anyone can read what you share. GROSS: So Geena Davis, I have a few questions for you about your career. 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 DAVIS: Images are so powerful that it will impact real life. In 2018, 92 percent of the directors of the top 250 domestic releases were men. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Everyone, listen up, please. GROSS: So what about other women you knew from film school? DAVIS: Not at all. 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. 2015, Documentary, 1h 29m. And so I did. 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. So there's no way for us to really know where the investigation is, even though it's now, oh - what? But we were stunned at the reaction that was instant - cover of Time magazine and all that stuff. Also was named Observer Book of the Year and a New York Times Book Review 100 Notable Books of the Year and Margaret Atwood chose it for The Guardians Best Books of 2014 list. An investigative look and analysis of gender disparity in Hollywood, featuring accounts from well-known actors, executives and artists in the Industry.An investigative look and analysis of gender disparity in Hollywood, featuring accounts from well-known actors, executives and artists in the Industry.An investigative look and analysis of gender disparity in Hollywood, featuring accounts from well-known actors, executives and artists in the Industry. I felt very unhappy with having that sort of imposed on me by other people. Produced with New Plot Films in association with the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, David Yurman, and . An investigative look and analysis of gender disparity in Hollywood, featuring accounts from well-known actors, executives and artists in the Industry. GIESE: Well, that was the thing. 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. What have they each done? French The result is the most momentous and contentious environmental book since Silent Spring. As defeated as one feels when you dont see a change happening, I really do think that it can and that it will. She's in Paris. Yeah. So let me just play that clip. Tweets by NaomiAKlein. MARTIN: You know one of the things that really fascinated me about the film is that you point out it wasnt always this way. But what I did, also as Geena, was start looking at the numbers, and I started to notice that only 4% of studio features were directed by women, and only 13% of episodic TV shows were directed by women. GROSS: Yes, you're not fazed by seeing Dustin Hoffman walk in because you think he's really a woman. So why does the behind the camera representation matter so much? Most importantly, the film seeks pathways and solutions from within and outside the industry, and around the world. I'm talking about family-rated films. Chinese Complex 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 . . The Geena Davis Institute is a nonprofit organization exempt from federal income tax under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. But that was my plan. Watch all you want. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I think they just dont like me. Naomi Kleins This Changes Everything is a ground-breaking work on how climate change changes everything. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at www.npr.org for further information. Swedish When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. You used to make a movie a year. 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 . And you try really hard to, like, throw him off of you. Turkish And it hasnt changed in all that time. Like competing - if you're nervous, your shot's going to be off. GROSS: How did you decide to create your institute? GROSS: came into play here, too, because there's more of you for Dustin Hoffman to be fazed by when he walks in. DONAHUE: Well, two things. 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. Overview. Give us some of the numbers that you find most disturbing. GIESE: You know, I did a lot of script writing and doctoring and - but no, no primetime TV shows, even though I observed for hundreds of hours on major TV shows like Dick Wolf's "Law & Order.". He refuses. And so thats what I did and, in fact, its proven that theyre incredibly grateful and horrified and embarrassed. There are going to be so many more movies with women starring and everything. So they were driven out of the unions. Audience Score 100+ Ratings. You know, some shows are researched and all that and certainly harmless. GROSS: So part of your work was modeling for Victoria's Secret. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Feud is so, so good. Here it is. By what name was This Changes Everything (2018) officially released in India in English? 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. Where's her bathing suit stuff? DAVIS: They do. Catalan Netflix | Apple TV | Amazon Video | Vudu | FandangoNOW | Kanopy | Hoopla, Directed by: Tom Donahue 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. And a buddy movies are always men's movies. DONAHUE: So the cheaper shows on Netflix and Hulu. Russian Greek No, I didn't think, oh, it's me, at all. And Im like, yay, I cant wait. DONAHUE: Its funny. And I also expected it to be not true anymore by the time I would get to that age. Why hasnt it changed before now? And she founded an institute to study gender discrimination in Hollywood. 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. You hear so many women speaking up when they encounter injustice and openly talking about it. And I think the first thing to change will be on screen. And the ending's kind of similar, where, you know, they kind of ride off a cliff, and you drive off a cliff. Female. . It was night and day, where before, they might say, hey, "Beetlejuice" or something. It was just like the way it was, and, you know, being sexy and all that kind of stuff. I - my daughter was a toddler, and I decided she was old enough to start watching preschool shows. This Changes Everything is a 2015 documentary film directed by Avi Lewis.It is based on the book This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate by Naomi Klein.. Can we play that? 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. The numbers have obviously not improved for decades. DAVIS: Well, the bigger part was the (laughter) - that Sydney liked my audition. Maybe they just thought I really wanted to, that I wanted to be such a student of film that that was my goal. namely, a modicum of hope for the future 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. 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. GROSS: And you also are an archer - like bow and arrow archery. Well, do they have any photos of her in a bathing suit? 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