None of this information is new, and its been a dismaying trend for decades. French 0000010605 00000 n Russian Oh, no, we can't. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: They dont care that Im black. DAVIS: In "A League Of Their Own," yeah. 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. Bulgarian And for a very brief time, the nature of that change is still up to us. German Maleeha Lodhi joins the program to explain tensions between Pakistan and India. An investigative look and analysis of gender disparity in Hollywood, featuring accounts from well-known actors, executives and artists in the Industry. We'll be right back. And I just want an excuse to be able to do that (laughter). 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. Based on a true story. The credits mention that 75 percent of the crew working on the film was female, but it sort of seems like a no-brainer to have a woman direct the movie about the fact that women dont direct enough movies. 0000002423 00000 n Because the next movie somebody makes could be gender-balanced. 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. And only one woman has won the best-director Oscar in the awards 90-year history: Kathryn Bigelow, for The Hurt Locker, with only a small handful of others even being nominated. 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. Copy may not be in its final form. Please forgive an old lady over here if I say I think Ive seen this one before and know how it ends. Production company: Creative Chaos Ventures So I never thought about it again. This is the 21st century. Its the lowest hanging fruit possible. %PDF-1.5 % Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. A military-trained assassin comes out of hiding to protect the daughter she's never met from ruthless criminals gunning for revenge. I didn't want to try any sports because I was - I call it physically shy. And then I saw it everywhere. Where's her bathing suit stuff? And this is in every sector of society, its the same story. . And - but nobody, and least of all him, nobody ever said, you realize you don't have to come every day? MARTIN: Did you think it was as bad as it is? Well, Tom, talk a little about what the problem is if you would. Swedish UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I was very lucky because Greys Anatomy was developed under the network presence. 0000006432 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. GROSS: Yeah. By the end, it feels like This Changes Everything is just that little bit too much behind the curve of history, despite the boo and hiss-prompting appearances from President Donald Trump and footage of the Womens March. Most importantly, the film seeks pathways and solutions from within and outside the industry, and around the world. But it was television that showed me there it was another way, and it was a show called MASH. Chinese Simple And Julie Dash eloquently expresses one of the many reasons it matters to have a woman at the helm: Our camera placement is different because our gaze is different.'. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Feud is so, so good. 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. GROSS: So the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media has done a lot of research on the numbers. GROSS: Let down your hair, as you put it. Or did you think, oh, it's me - no one wants me anymore? DAVIS: Right. Slovene When you have 150 men on set and one woman, how is that woman protected? We were made to feel very dispensable. Its an alarm that calls us to fix an economic system that is already failing us in many ways. DAVIS: Oh, so - gosh. Read her answers to our Movie Love Questionnaire here. So I started making this movie. I wasnt thinking, this is so unfair. Yet we can seize this existential crisis to transform our failed economic system into something radically better. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I did. Were they getting work? 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. And you wouldnt know it because of how it turns out, four percent post his school. Its not going to benefit you. 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. Klein argues that the changes to our relationship with nature and one another that are required to respond to the climate crisis humanely should not be viewed as grim penance, but rather as a kind of gifta catalyst to transform broken economic and cultural priorities and to heal long-festering historical wounds. 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. And I was kind of good at all of it. GROSS: And doesn't know where to put his eyes. We should be showing kids that boys and girls share the same bicycle. GROSS: Did you think of it as discrimination against older women? DAVIS: Hopefully not. MARTIN: And they just cant believe that it is what it is. Norwegian And then Susan Sarandon comes out. . He's just decided that that's what he's going to do. With Reese Witherspoon, Mira Nair, Shonda Rhimes, Tracee Ellis Ross. Netflix | Apple TV | Amazon Video | Vudu | FandangoNOW | Kanopy | Hoopla, Directed by: Tom Donahue And they didn't ask - after I read the part, they didn't ask to see my bathing suit. You used to make a movie a year. And very quickly, the coaches were saying, you know, you have a lot of untapped athletic ability. KIMBERLY PIERCE, DIRECTOR, CARRIE: I was being talked to and treated and questioned constantly and indifferently. Production companies: CreativeChaos vmg, New Plot Films, US Release 2019. 0000004713 00000 n I'm Terry Gross. MARTIN: And you do make a point of saying in the film that 75 percent of the crew are women. Throughout the doc, women bear witness to what it felt and feels like to see characters onscreen like themselves, even if the film or TV program had it flaws. For more details, visit the official This Changes Everything website, where youll find more Press information and Endnotes. 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. Your first movie role, "Tootsie," you're in your underwear in the film. CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR: Now, whether in politics or science or any other field, one thing is for sure, we need more women now. What have they each done? The Geena Davis Institute is a nonprofit organization exempt from federal income tax under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. And so I never asked any questions, and I didn't know that you didn't have to come every day. 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Told first-hand by some of Hollywood's 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. GIESE: I first went to the EEOC in 2013. LANDGRAF: The minute we open our door and we say, come express it here, the work got better. What if confronting the climate crisis is the best chance we'll ever get to build a better world? 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. 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. It is also possible to buy "This Changes Everything" on Apple TV, Amazon Video, Vudu as download or rent it on Apple TV . If she can see it, she can be it. Terms Privacy Policy For Our Members Access, All rights reserved. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at www.npr.org for further information. From "Thelma & Louise" to "A League of . This Changes Everything. 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 . DONAHUE: I started the film a year before I actually asked Geena to come on board. I mean you know. . So and it wasnt really until after Me Too and all that happened that we all realized, this is different now. Lithuanian So, like, it seems like a lot of the change is happening from women like that who are creating the change themselves. And, of course, it's all a joke. JOIN NOW. What Shows Have Been Renewed or Canceled. 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. DAVIS: Well, the bigger part was the (laughter) - that Sydney liked my audition. It really started for me at the end of 2014 with the Sony hack and finding out about the disparity in pay between Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper in American Hustle. 0000010793 00000 n And, you know, that's obviously an option that everybody can take. 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). Well, it meant a little ironically. We have been told its impossible to get off fossil fuels when in fact we know exactly how to do itit just requires breaking every rule in the free-market playbook: reining in corporate power, rebuilding local economies, and reclaiming our democracies. And so I learned at 36 that I actually was coordinated. 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. . Actress Geena Davis rallies Meryl Streep, Shonda Rhimes, Reese Witherspoon and others in this powerful documentary. Lithuanian This Changes Everything educates and inspires. I showed her, you know, G-rated videos and little kids movies and TV shows - and, you know, obviously, there's some exceptions to that. 0000023091 00000 n GROSS: In "A League Of Their Own." It's really fun and incredibly challenging. My guest Geena Davis starred in two movies about female empowerment - "Thelma & Louise" and "A League Of Their Own." MARTIN: Talk to me about the Geena Davis Institute which you founded years ago. Now we will see so many more female buddy pictures, female road movies or whatever and movies about female friendship. (Yes, I am aware that even comparing these two films critically risks replicating the very same divide-and-rule strategies that have forced female filmmakers to compete with each other for years rather than collaborate and collectivize. JOHN LANDGRAF, HEAD, FX: I had this unconscious bias that we would have to be making sacrifices to hire people with less experience. So here was my hero calling himself a feminist. A new nurse at a hospital begins to suspect her colleague's desire for attention may be tied to a series of patient deaths.