Ditto The First Wives Club, and, more recently, Frozen and Hidden Figures.. GROSS: The one with the feathers and DAVIS: The one with the feathers and rhinestones? 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 was kind of good at all of it. DONAHUE: I started the film a year before I actually asked Geena to come on board. DONAHUE: There hasnt been a lot of change. We have also been told that humanity is too greedy and selfish to rise to this challenge. I was a feminist since I was 10-years-old because I came from a very right-wing family. And, you know, that's obviously an option that everybody can take. She is an executive producer of and is featured in the new documentary "This Changes Everything," about how women in Hollywood are pushing for more representation in front of and behind the camera. And so I learned at 36 that I actually was coordinated. So I started making this movie. It's really fun and incredibly challenging. Maria Giese is a director who felt shut out of directing because she's a woman. . 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. Production companies: CreativeChaos vmg, New Plot Films, US Release 2019. You know, the "Teletubbies" are gender-balanced; I don't know if you can tell. Klein and Lewis paint a picture of a post-fossil-fueled, post-capitalist future that seems not only within reach, And you wouldnt know it because of how it turns out, four percent post his school. DAVIS: Well, I mean, come on. So when I got back from Cannes, I was represented at William Morris Agency, and basically nothing happened. Ukrainian, Arabic The authoritative record of NPRs programming is the audio record. And a little by little, I introduced them to a group of my female colleagues. And that was an extraordinary triumph. I never got another paying job. This is FRESH AIR. . And I'd be like, which part exactly? And so it was something they had no idea they were doing, and the data changed everything for them. MORETZ: The biggest part of the movie is when she gets her period for the first time in the shower. The Book, Documentary & Impact Project The first film you directed was shown at the Cannes Film Festival. She's featured in the movie and as an executive producer of the film. GIESE: I first went to the EEOC in 2013. Starring Naomi Klein Stacey Arwen Raab. 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 is the 21st century. 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 . Be the first to contribute. Director Tom Donahue Stars Reese Witherspoon Mira Nair And I think the first thing to change will be on screen. GROSS: How did you decide to create your institute? DAVIS: They do. This Changes Everything has been translated into 27 languages: Arabic Unions did not allow women because putting women in the unions meant lower pay and lower prestige. Watch all you want. A film that brings our peril into focus and what we might learn from despair. And there's a scene where you come out in - why don't you describe the costume. So I thats when I learned about the work of Geena in her institute and how important onscreen representation was. Produced with New Plot Films in association with the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, David Yurman, and . Its not going to benefit you. And she doesnt know its her period because she had never been taught that by her mother. Transcript A new documentary explores how women in Hollywood are pushing for more representation in front of and behind the camera. -Alice Walker, author and activist, Purposely unsettling Ultimately encouraging So they were driven out of the unions. Naomi Kleins This Changes Everything is a ground-breaking work on how climate change changes everything. He said no, that's the whole point is competing. 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. . You were working with Dustin Hoffman. About the author. Directed by Avi Lewis, and inspired by Naomi Klein's international non-fiction bestseller This Changes Everything, the film presents seven powerful 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. OK. Let me just play a clip from him in the film. And I think its because what I decided to do was I wanted the research so I could go directly to the creators and share it with them in a private and very friendly way because I knew they didnt know what they were doing. 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. 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. In 2004, she founded the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media. Korean The result is the most momentous and contentious environmental book since Silent Spring. Progress will happen when men take a stand, an emphatic Meryl Streep says. Audience Score 100+ Ratings. Yet we can seize this existential crisis to transform our failed economic system into something radically better. A new documentary explores how women in Hollywood are pushing for more representation in front of and behind the camera. 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. And we started to have meetings with them. 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. DONAHUE: But also, Reese Witherspoon says in the film that sometimes she would go on set and it would be 115 men and she would be the only woman. . UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I did. So they send over a Victoria's Secret catalogue (laughter). A determined detective continues his search for the truth behind Asia's largest drug organization and its elusive boss he has unfinished business with. Chinese Complex 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. Well, get her back. And they didn't ask - after I read the part, they didn't ask to see my bathing suit. DONAHUE: Yes. By Joel Horwood. Well, do they have any photos of her in a bathing suit? DAVIS: Not at all. 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. A group of disillusioned young women have disappeared. Copy may not be in its final form. (Interestingly, the film was directed by a man, Tom Donahue. When you have 150 men on set and one woman, how is that woman protected? Which is why none of them appeared in this film? The EEOC functions in total confidentiality. She had to fight really hard to get them to put it on the air. MICHEL MARTIN, CONTRIBUTOR: Geena Davis, Tom Donahue, thank you so much for talking to us. Several women serve as executive producers, including Davis.). GROSS: So what was your strategy to try to open the door to more women directors? You go out to the parking lot with him, and he starts to rape you. DONAHUE: They tend to deny the problem after seeing the film. 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. And a buddy movies are always men's movies. Bosnian This is FRESH AIR. Film schools are now half female. Your first movie role, "Tootsie," you're in your underwear in the film. Danish She's in Paris. [2] Naomi Klein - This Changes Everything.pdf (PDFy mirror) Publication date 2014-01-01 Topics mirror, pdf.yt Collection pdfymirrors; additional_collections Language English This public document was automatically mirrored from PDFy. namely, a modicum of hope for the future 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. Well, we call the film This Changes Everything, because its about kind of why that doesnt happen. This Changes Everything makes this point very clear, while also seeking to spark initiative. And womens films do make more money and have, I think, over the last three years. It often seems that these worlds are completely . UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: They dont care that Im black. Good Deed Entertainment (Theatrical Premiere), Starz (Broadcast), VOD, TVOD. Its just very elevated because its in the entertainment world. Film Review: 'This Changes Everything' Before the #MeToo movement began, director Tom Donahue began assembling a documentary about gender inequality in Hollywood. Nothing except that climate change changes everything. So I never thought about it again. So I learned about being a feminist through the activism of a man. Your AMC Ticket Confirmation# can be found in your order confirmation email. 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. Its always been that way. DAVIS: I think partly, back when I started, I wasnt thinking about that, even. 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. And Im like, yay, I cant wait. But were not hearing womens voices or seeing the stories told through the female gaze when there are so few female directors. So at 41, I took it up and then became absolutely obsessed, as I do with things. You know, they just determined to do it, and they're very creative and they make it happen. On a platform out at sea, they have formed The Community - a new type of society and a better way of living. 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. They founded the Directors Guild of Americas Womens Steering Committee in 1979. What is the connection? MARTIN: In fact, theres a clip for that. And I was so shocked when my coach said after just a few months, well, now you've got to start competing. A star-studded documentary about gender inequality in film and TV is equal parts history lesson and constructive criticism. Davis and director Maria Giese discuss the dramatic disparities on screen. MARTIN: Really? And a lot of men would say to me when I was making the film, Well, the problem is you just follow the money. If women films made more money, of course, there would be more women films. Executive Producers: Geena Davis, Steve Edwards, Regina Scully, Simone Pero, Madeline Di Nonno, Jennie Peters, Patty Casby, Ku-Ling Yurman In October, at a special ceremony, she'll receive an honorary Oscar, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. 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 . Korean Catalan 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 then I had to play the best baseball player anyone has ever seen hold a bat. 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. GIESE: Well, that was the thing. 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 . The most profound threat to humanity is the war our economic model is waging against life on earth. Lithuanian I knew I wanted to be in movies, as opposed to theater. Book & Film Study Guide. GROSS: My guests are actor Geena Davis and director Maria Giese. . You were signed to a big agency. Oh, no, we can't. And two and a half years later, I was a semifinalist for the Olympic trials. DONAHUE: Sure. I'm wondering what impact you think that might be having on the inclusion issue because we've seen how some men in Hollywood have misused their power to assault or harass women. I'm talking about family-rated films. [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.. 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. GROSS: Maria Giese, let me move on to you. Lithuanian GROSS: But you're in your underwear. My understanding is they don't make their investigation public. 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. But we were stunned at the reaction that was instant - cover of Time magazine and all that stuff. He was the photographer for "Soul Train" and took photos for Jet, Ebony and the black-owned LA newspaper Soul. Was it a centering thing for you - focus? 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. We should be showing kids that boys and girls share the same bicycle. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You directed an episode of it. So what impact do you think it had both on audiences but also on Hollywood? I fear the message may continue to elude those who need to hear it the most. I did get work, and it was through my model agency that I got my first acting job. SCREENING GUIDES. 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. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There is nothing funny here. Where's her bathing suit stuff? In fact, all around the world, the fight for the next economy and against reckless extraction is already succeeding in ways both surprising and inspiring. And I explained to them why I thought that this was so significant on a global level. And for me, the word feminist was a bad word in my house. MARTIN: Why do you think that was the click moment for you? And this is in every sector of society, its the same story. Geena Davis is also an executive producer of the film. Well, Tom, talk a little about what the problem is if you would. 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 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. We also heard from director Maria Giese, who's also featured in the film "This Changes Everything." DAVIS: Absolutely, which is fantastic. So Geena, will you just tell us what the title is referring to? MARTIN: And you do make a point of saying in the film that 75 percent of the crew are women. Spanish GEENA DAVIS: Well, it was pretty dramatic. It was just like the way it was, and, you know, being sexy and all that kind of stuff. 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. She's got a handgun, pulls it on him, asks him to apologize. And my friend and I acted out your trip. a scene from This Changes Everything, the documentary. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I was very lucky because Greys Anatomy was developed under the network presence. And it was just, you know, doing a video with a casting assistant. And the ending's kind of similar, where, you know, they kind of ride off a cliff, and you drive off a cliff. DAVIS: Oh, I don't know which one you mean. 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. This Changes Everything. - because it was a big hit. And this guy on the show named Alan Alda, who I was learning everything about. 2015, Documentary, 1h 29m. GROSS: Geena Davis, let me bring you back into the conversation. DONAHUE: So the cheaper shows on Netflix and Hulu. And so it's just a battle with yourself the whole time. Finnish Women are socialized to go along with the dominant patriarch. GROSS: A battle with yourself to not battle with yourself. Maria Giese is a director who felt shut out for being a woman. And I'd like to see if I could do that. 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. Watch all you want. Portuguese 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. Romanian Didnt seem to happen. 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.
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