Sandra Oh speaks movingly about the importance of seeing actresses who looked like her for the first time in The Joy Luck Club. And Tiffany Haddishtotally unsurprisinglygets the biggest laughs of all when she recalls the thrill of seeing Diahann Carroll stride into a room and start a catfight with Joan Collins on Dynasty., Behind the scenes, This Changes Everything offers several nuggets that are both illuminating and infuriating. It will be on air. I haven't really ever had to describe what it's about. 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. MARIA GIESE: My first feature film directing job out of graduate film school was in England, not in the United States. Like why do I care? GROSS: A battle with yourself to not battle with yourself. Its a subject this interviewee here, as well as one of the films executive producers, Geena Davis, is clearly passionate about. You go out to the parking lot with him, and he starts to rape you. But it's profoundly not the case right now. Portuguese This Changes Everything On Netflix Now! And so it was something they had no idea they were doing, and the data changed everything for them. After feeling that she was shut out of directing because she's a woman, she became an activist. Danish When you have 150 men on set and one woman, how is that woman protected? 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. GROSS: My guests are actor Geena Davis and director Maria Giese. 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. 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? 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 . 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. A book, film and engagement project about why the climate crisis is the best opportunity we've ever had to build a better world. 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. And you say in the film that you were watching something with your daughter. As Egypt's last pharaoh, Cleopatra fights to protect her throne, family and legacy in this docudrama featuring reenactments and expert interviews. With "This Changes Everything," a documentary by Lewis and a book by Klein, the duo has reshaped the narrative of climate change. Climate change isnt just another issue to be neatly filed between taxes and health care. And then Susan Sarandon comes out. 2019 | Maturity Rating: TV-MA | 1h 35m | Documentaries. Tom, do you want to add to that? All Rights Reserved. And you try really hard to, like, throw him off of you. But I said, at some point, you got to get me into a showgirl costume because it's kind of a fantasy of mine to wear one of those things, you know, with a giant headdress and all that. 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 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. Dutch In the wake of her prom scandal, Princess Margrethe longs for normalcy as she struggles to maintain her perfect facade while dealing with family drama. And two and a half years later, I was a semifinalist for the Olympic trials. 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 . MARTIN: Talk to me about the Geena Davis Institute which you founded years ago. In the directors guild, there were only two women I think up until the 1960s who were members of the union. DAVIS: Absolutely, yes. . 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. 0000002877 00000 n
Aiming to bring more spotlight to the sexism in the Hollywood film industry, This Changes Everything interviews several actresses and women filmmakers on their experiences in the industry. This Changes Everything encompasses a massive subject from a variety of angles in a brief amount of time, and the results can feel a bit choppy. Didnt seem to happen. It couldnt be timelier, and its simmering feeling of frustration is palpable. And I started to do research. 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. DAVIS: Yes. Change or be changed, but make no mistake, this changes everything.. 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. 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. A work of startling force, exhaustive reporting, and telling anecdote . This Changes Everything educates and inspires. 0000049399 00000 n
MARTIN: Did you think it was as bad as it is? Sisters have done it for themselves so why get a guy to direct? - Thelma & Louise you went, that's it, the whole industry's gonna change. You know, I mean, both are kind of unattainable. You know, it was, like, an amazing introduction. And then maybe five years later, another movie comes out with a female star. And so thats what I did and, in fact, its proven that theyre incredibly grateful and horrified and embarrassed. And I had gone to Paris to do the collections, and in the meantime, Sydney Pollack saw my audition tape and said, hey, I like her. Geena Davis is also an executive producer of the film. And, of course, it's all a joke. . . 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. 0000006432 00000 n
You were signed to a big agency. 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: 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. Hilary Weston Writers Trust Prize for Nonfiction. OK. Let me just play a clip from him in the film. Women are socialized to go along with the dominant patriarch. It was a small budget, and we hoped somebody would see it and not object to the ending. Overview. DONAHUE: Sure. 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, fr DAVIS: Well, no, no. Featuring interviews with Geena Davis, Meryl Streep, Natalie Portman, Taraji P. Henson, Reese Witherspoon, Cate Blanchett, Tiffany Haddish, Jill Soloway, Shonda Rhimes, Jessica Chastain, Yara Shahidi, Chloe Grace Moretz, Amandla Stenberg, Alan Alda, Sandra Oh, Anita Hill, Rashida Jones, Rose McGowan, Judd Apatow, Rosario Dawson, Maria Giese, and many other influential voices in the fight for gender equality. This Changes Everythings choppy, frenetic approach to editing makes for an uneven rhetorical texture. MARTIN: Do you think its because your initial focus was on kids television? Provoking whats surely the docs biggest laugh, Tiffany Haddish relives the thrill of watching Diahann Carroll whaling on Joan Collins in the classic Dynasty catfight, and yet never going to jail for it. 0000006562 00000 n
DAVIS: Oh, so - gosh. 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. 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. 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. They could say, what was I doing? And her actions led to an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission investigation into systemic discrimination against women directors. What if confronting the climate crisis is the best chance we'll ever get to build a better world? Yeah. LANDGRAF: And maybe that the talent wouldnt be there. 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. 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. Actress Geena Davis rallies Meryl Streep, Shonda Rhimes, Reese Witherspoon and others in this powerful . DAVIS: Well, I mean, come on. MARTIN: Every person that Ive spoken with who have seen the film is just shocked by it. There are going to be so many more movies with women starring and everything. German You had a small role. And this is according to the Center for the Study of Women and Television and Film in San Diego State University. GROSS: So you went to the ACLU, and then the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission became involved, too. 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 we pull off these changes in time? 0000023356 00000 n
Ba ba ba ba They're both featured in the new documentary about that campaign called "This Changes Everything.". So I never tried anything. 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. 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. This is the 21st century. He's got you pinned against a car. She had to fight really hard to get them to put it on the air. Watch all you want. 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.. 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. Copyright 2019 NPR. 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. From Thelma & Louise to A League of Their Own, the Oscar-winning actress Geena Davis made her name with her strong female characters. We can reflect the future now and it will make it happen. Is that why because no studio heads appeared in this film because theyre so embarrassed? Fatal Attraction Works As Entertainment, Fails as Social Commentary, Prime Videos Citadel Traps Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Richard Madden in Played-Out Spy Game, New York Philharmonic and Steven Spielberg Celebrate the Music of John Williams, A Piece of His Fire: Harry Belafonte (1927-2023). She founded an institute, the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media. 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. Co-Producers: Jessicya Materano, Robin Kelleher So I learned about being a feminist through the activism of a man. And then the second thing were unions. You know, some shows are researched and all that and certainly harmless. Finnish The musical score, composed by Leigh Roberts and Allison Piccioni, is way too prominent in the mix and by a massive distance much too reminiscent of old-school TV documentaries, underscoring every emotion with obvious musical cues. Incidentally, both of these docs conspicuously have no interviews with several of the industrys best known and most lauded female directors, such as Kathryn Bigelow and Sofia Coppola, who have expressed the view, at least in Bigelows case, that they much prefer to be seen as simply directors, not as female directors. . 0000043924 00000 n
As always, its a story eminently worth telling, especially for the benefit of younger generations whose exposure to feminism may have started with buying a ticket to Wonder Woman last year. 0000001994 00000 n
Catalan 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. Netflix | Apple TV | Amazon Video | Vudu | FandangoNOW | Kanopy | Hoopla, Directed by: Tom Donahue 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. She speaks candidly about the way shes been depicted on screen, how she and many others thought the revolutionary Thelma & Louise would change everything (hence the title) back in 1991, and the research shes done on the portrayal of women in childrens programming through her Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media. In this part of the interview, I'm going to talk more with Davis about her own movie career. And, you know, being harassed and all kinds of things going on, being not listened to, talked down to, all that stuff. So let me just play that clip. LANDGRAF: And Im here to say its there. Advertisement. MARTIN: Have you felt your career jeopardized by your unspokeness about this? 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. And we started to have meetings with them. . And hopefully, young boys will see that a male-directed this and think I can do that too. Which really isn't very old. With: Geena Davis, Meryl Streep, Chlo Grace Moretz, Yara Shahidi, Natalie Portman, Taraji P. Henson, Reese Witherspoon, Cate Blanchett, Jill Soloway, Shonda Rhimes, Alan Alda, Sandra Oh, Anita Hill, Jessica Chastain, Rose McGowan, Judd Apatow, Rosario Dawson, Maria Geise, Amandla Stenberg, Maureen Ryan Documentary . 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 a little by little, I introduced them to a group of my female colleagues. DAVIS: Oh, I don't know which one you mean. And womens films do make more money and have, I think, over the last three years. And why does that matter? Nothing except that climate change changes everything. a scene from This Changes Everything, the documentary. DAVIS: They do. 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? this changes everything, I'm a little skeptical. An investigative look and analysis of gender disparity in Hollywood, featuring accounts from well-known actors, executives and artists in the Industry. 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. 0000004937 00000 n
It is also possible to buy "This Changes Everything" on Apple TV, Amazon Video, Vudu as download or rent it on Apple TV . DAVIS: Hopefully not. 0000010674 00000 n
- because it was a big hit. Editor: Jasmin Way Because the next movie somebody makes could be gender-balanced. Oh, no, we can't. What were you looking for and what did you come away with? She's got a handgun, pulls it on him, asks him to apologize. MARTIN: But Geena, this has to have happened to you throughout your career? So you started your career as a model. A book, film and engagement project about why the climate crisis is the best opportunity we've ever had to build a better world. You know, they just determined to do it, and they're very creative and they make it happen. But on the way, they must confront what it means to be different. Polish And that, for me, became a battle worth fighting for. Spanish This Changes Everything. Look at what FX did. 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. Film schools are now half female. So I started making this movie. In This Changes Everything, Naomi Klein explores the issue of climate change from a political perspective and considers why we have failed as yet to respond to the global danger it poses. You were attached to other projects. And but I just assumed kids media would be gender-balanced, and wholesome, and good for you, and all that. So I knew the way to move the numbers and to make real significant change was through legal action. 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 .
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