Now, this changes everything. makes a muscular case for global warming as the defining, cross-sectional issue of our era., [A]robust new polemic . Maria Giese is a director who felt shut out for being a woman. Climate change isnt just another issue to be neatly filed between taxes and health care. Dutch The Geena Davis Institute is a nonprofit organization exempt from federal income tax under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. And everything gets in the way of that, every possible thought you have, every different circumstance. 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. You can pick up a lot on a set. 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. 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. Youll get much less salary because you guys dont really matter and well replace you if you have any complaints. This is the 21st century. Yet we can seize this existential crisis to transform our failed economic system into something radically better. GROSS: My guests are actor Geena Davis and director Maria Giese. She's interesting. Here it is. 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. I'm going to ask you to describe the premise. Well, do they have any photos of her in a bathing suit? . Portuguese GROSS: The one with the feathers and DAVIS: The one with the feathers and rhinestones? JOIN NOW. So I learned about being a feminist through the activism of a man. You know, some shows are researched and all that and certainly harmless. Why dont things change? The Film thischangeseverything.org Press Kit Aug. 05 2015 5 About the book The feature documentary was inspired by award-winning author Naomi Klein's critically acclaimed worldwide bestselling non-fiction book This Changes Everything. 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. So, like, it seems like a lot of the change is happening from women like that who are creating the change themselves. 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. I get to be a doctor. Like competing - if you're nervous, your shot's going to be off. She starts her own organization, the Geena Davis Institute, on gender in media to keep track of the imbalance. Executive Producers: Geena Davis, Steve Edwards, Regina Scully, Simone Pero, Madeline Di Nonno, Jennie Peters, Patty Casby, Ku-Ling Yurman 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. MARTIN: In the age of silent films, women directed a lot of films. Of the top 100 grossing films of 2017, male-lead characters received twice as much screen time as female leads. Also with us is director Maria Giese, who's featured in the film, too. They're both featured in the new documentary "This Changes Everything" about discrimination against women in front of and behind the camera in Hollywood. GROSS: So the EEOC has been conducting an investigation into systemic discrimination against women directors. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There is nothing funny here. GROSS: And you even competed to be on the Olympic archery team. In October, at a special ceremony, she'll receive an honorary Oscar, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. So they were driven out of the unions. In this part of the interview, I'm going to talk more with Davis about her own movie career. Transcript A new documentary explores how women in Hollywood are pushing for more representation in front of and behind the camera. DAVIS: In "A League Of Their Own," yeah. It'll ruin your career was the thinking. 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. Turkish French UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Feud is so, so good. It looks like we don't have any synopsis for this title yet. MICHEL MARTIN, CONTRIBUTOR: Geena Davis, Tom Donahue, thank you so much for talking to us. 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. And a buddy movies are always men's movies. So when I got back from Cannes, I was represented at William Morris Agency, and basically nothing happened. It was a small budget, and we hoped somebody would see it and not object to the ending. And it was just, you know, doing a video with a casting assistant. I think theres some backlash. So I began to think, you know, this is maybe not just about me, and even if my own career is just about me, that doesn't answer for all the incredible, talented women everywhere that are not able to contribute their voices to our entertainment media storytelling. 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. What have they each done? 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. 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." GROSS: So part of your work was modeling for Victoria's Secret. 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. 47%. JOHN LANDGRAF, HEAD, FX: I had this unconscious bias that we would have to be making sacrifices to hire people with less experience. I didn't want to try any sports because I was - I call it physically shy. I think my peers and I were always operating under the assumption that you should never complain about anything. A new documentary explores how women in Hollywood are pushing for more representation in front of and behind the camera. GEENA DAVIS, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER, THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING: Thank you. Over the course of 90 minutes, viewers will meet. Co-Producers: Jessicya Materano, Robin Kelleher GROSS: So Geena Davis, I have a few questions for you about your career. This Changes Everything makes this point very clear, while also seeking to spark initiative. Production companies: CreativeChaos vmg, New Plot Films, US Release 2019. And you try really hard to, like, throw him off of you. AMANPOUR: Let me just give some of the statistics that you cite in the film. Where's her bathing suit stuff? DAVIS: Not at all. Film schools are now half female. 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. Now we will see so many more female buddy pictures, female road movies or whatever and movies about female friendship. 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. Oh, no, we can't. Female. And she founded an institute to study gender discrimination in Hollywood. DONAHUE: Well, two things. Croatian If she can see it, she can be it. Terms Privacy Policy For Our Members Access, All rights reserved. You know, the "Teletubbies" are gender-balanced; I don't know if you can tell. . We can talk about it and everybody is talking about it, you know. 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. Norwegian The economic drivers of the carbon society are highlighted by the economic crisis in Greece in the early 2000s, where some saw the only solution to get out of the crisis being to sell off the land to the highest bidder, those highest bidders often being resource extraction companies. Bulgarian Its always been that way. I knew I wanted to be in movies, as opposed to theater. And so that was really fun. So let me just play that clip. 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. 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. And womens films do make more money and have, I think, over the last three years. GROSS: How did you decide to create your institute? So there's no way for us to really know where the investigation is, even though it's now, oh - what? . 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. And but I just assumed kids media would be gender-balanced, and wholesome, and good for you, and all that. French MARIA GIESE: My first feature film directing job out of graduate film school was in England, not in the United States. DAVIS: It did well. Geena Davis is an actress who starred in such films as "A League Of Their Own" and "Thelma & Louise." Maria Giese is a director who felt shut out of directing because she's a woman. The numbers have obviously not improved for decades. Bosnian DAVIS: I think partly, back when I started, I wasnt thinking about that, even. - because it was a big hit. Not rated. Yeah. 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. Norwegian And I explained to them why I thought that this was so significant on a global level. When, for instance, in 2017 I think, female-led films made 38 percent more money at the Box Office than male-led films. . Whats your first name? There are going to be so many more movies with women starring and everything. 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. DONAHUE: They tend to deny the problem after seeing the film. GROSS: This is the equal opportunity law. GROSS: Geena Davis, Maria Giese, thank you both so much for talking with us. She had to fight really hard to get them to put it on the air. DONAHUE: Its funny. DAVIS: They do. I mean you know. 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 . SCREENING GUIDES. This is FRESH AIR. So do you have any idea where things stand? . 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. This Changes Everything August 31, 2015 We're excited to share the official poster for This Changes Everything the documentary! . 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. But so I think that will change and I think it will impact society, that life will imitate art. 56%. Finnish And then the second thing were unions. Well, get her back. Original filename: Naomi Klein - This Changes Everything.pdf URL: https://pdf.yt/d/Skb-ch_k7psDm90Q So I decided I wanted to take up a sport in the real-life way and not the movie version. makes a muscular case for global warming as the defining, cross-sectional issue of our era. Actress Geena Davis rallies Meryl Streep, Shonda Rhimes, Reese Witherspoon and others in this . And it's a buddy movie. to unsuccessfully sue Warner Bros. and Columbia Pictures for discrimination). . I very much expected that that would not be the case. They founded the Directors Guild of Americas Womens Steering Committee in 1979. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I was very lucky because Greys Anatomy was developed under the network presence. Finnish Spanish But you could, by answering its call to action. In 2014, the book won the Hilary Weston Writers Trust Prize for Nonfiction, Canadas most prestigious award for non-fiction. We havent made significant progress, Klein argues, because weve been expecting solutions from the very same institutions that created the problem in the first place . Watch This Changes Everything: Men Don't See Us Women Equal. DAVIS: First of all, for the simple fact of fairness, that women deserve to be in half of the positions, you know, and have leadership roles and also be the grip and be on the crew and, you know, use their [13:45:00] talents. She's got a handgun, pulls it on him, asks him to apologize. Slovene We dont have to wait for things to turn around in real life. He's just decided that that's what he's going to do. So I learned through him about the equal rights amendment, about Gloria Steinem and Marlo Thomas and that girl and I became a fan of Mary Tyler Moore. 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