Its the lowest hanging fruit possible. Like why do I care? Heart and mind go hand in hand in this magisterial response to a present crisis., We lack the collective spaces in which to confront the raw terror of ecocide, is how Klein encapsulates the problem. Nothing is certain. With - the other thing that I loved about it was that it's measured by points. Determined to provide a ray of light for those under her care, a young nurse navigates the world of mental health and the diverse stories surrounding it. Theyll just get somebody else. 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. 2019 | Maturity Rating: TV-MA | 1h 35m | Documentary Films. Greek Was it a centering thing for you - focus? DONAHUE: Hopefully not. 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. 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. 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. Script extract. Will this film change everything? Variety: Geena Davis Talks This Changes Everything Doc and Conscious Gender Bias in Behind-the-Scenes Hiring, Good Deed Entertainment: This Changes Everything (2019) Exclusive Interview with Geena Davis & Director Tom Donahue, PBS SoCal: Interview with Geena Davis and Tom Donahue on This Changes Everything, Deadline: This Changes Everything Review: Compelling Documentary Tackles Hollywood Gender Inequality Head-On, The New York Times: This Changes Everything Review: Hollywoods Men, Called to Action. What is the connection? to unsuccessfully sue Warner Bros. and Columbia Pictures for discrimination). Over the course of 90 minutes, viewers will meet. In 2014, the book won the Hilary Weston Writers Trust Prize for Nonfiction, Canadas most prestigious award for non-fiction. The main thing that's very different is now it's completely OK to talk about this stuff. And then the second thing were unions. Female. Italian, Japanese 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 we started to have meetings with them. This Changes Everything. Is that why because no studio heads appeared in this film because theyre so embarrassed? So they send over a Victoria's Secret catalogue (laughter). 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. DAVIS: Well, no, no. 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. Profoundly, embarrassing few. And I went, and they said, wear a bathing suit under your clothes because if you do well at the reading, they'll ask to see you in your bathing suit. Bulgarian Also with us is director Maria Giese, who's featured in the film, too. CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR: Now, whether in politics or science or any other field, one thing is for sure, we need more women now. And her actions led to an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission investigation into systemic discrimination against women directors. You used to make a movie a year. 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. DAVIS: I think partly, back when I started, I wasnt thinking about that, even. MARTIN: But Geena, this has to have happened to you throughout your career? 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. But I loved it. Swedish Unlike many works about the climate crisis, this is not a film that tries to scare the audience into action: it aims to empower. MARTIN: Talk to me about the Geena Davis Institute which you founded years ago. A work of startling force, exhaustive reporting, and telling anecdote . And when we looked at - when we first looked at TV shows, kids - the ratio of male to female characters on kids programs, specifically made for them, had the worst ratio of male to female characters. GIESE: Yes, Title VII, which was written into law in 1964 by President Johnson. GROSS: Prevent that kind of behavior. Watch This Changes Everything: Men Don't See Us Women Equal. Ditto The First Wives Club, and, more recently, Frozen and Hidden Figures.. And she founded an institute to study gender discrimination in Hollywood. Oh, no, we can't. PBS is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. Finnish This Changes Everything is a 2018 American documentary film, directed by Tom Donahue. It's really fun and incredibly challenging. 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? This is a rush transcript. This Changes Everything. And they didn't ask - after I read the part, they didn't ask to see my bathing suit. The result is the most momentous and contentious environmental book since Silent Spring. But this struck me very deeply that we're training kids from the beginning, from minute one of absorbing popular culture, that women and girls are not as important as men and boys, and they're not as valuable to our society as men and boys. You know, some shows are researched and all that and certainly harmless. Chinese Complex Danish Actress Geena Davis rallies Meryl Streep, Shonda Rhimes, Reese Witherspoon and others in this powerful documentary. So its kind of working. It often seems that these worlds are completely . 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. Catalan 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. She's featured in the movie and as an executive producer of the film. Even though Landgraf and several prominent men are interviewed, a title card notes that the studio heads the filmmakers reached out to declined to appear in the film. Bulgarian 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 . It takes an incisive look at the history, empirical evidence, and systemic forces that foster gender discrimination and thus reinforce disparity in our culture. Running time: 1 hour 36 minutes. Oh, we forgot. 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. MARTIN: So Geena, how do you stay in it though? Your AMC Ticket Confirmation# can be found in your order confirmation email. This Changes Everything has been translated into 27 languages: Arabic And that's when you really are tested with your mental abilities because once you have a really good shot, your job is to recreate it exactly and - every time. 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. Original filename: Naomi Klein - This Changes Everything.pdf URL: https://pdf.yt/d/Skb-ch_k7psDm90Q 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. I thought, this is incredibly unfair, and I don't want other people deciding that I have to work less, you know, and taking away opportunities. This Changes Everything Official trailer Did we miss something on diversity? . There's no question about it. Now, this changes everything. Here it is. Climate change isnt just another issue to be neatly filed between taxes and health care. Throughout the film, Klein builds to her most controversial and exciting idea:that we can seize the existential crisis of climate change to transform our failed economic system into something radically better. . Copyright 2019 NPR. GROSS: came into play here, too, because there's more of you for Dustin Hoffman to be fazed by when he walks in. 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. Like I think a lot of people have become familiar with the whole question of representation on screen. Documentary. 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. Recorded by CBC Ideasafter the historic December 2015 Paris Climate meeting, in this lecture, Naomi analyzed the failures of that Agreement and discussed ways to move forward from it. 10 Video Games That Need a Live Action Adaptation, 2023's Most Anticipated Sequels, Prequels, and Spin-offs. German Davis and director Maria Giese discuss the dramatic disparities on screen. I did get work, and it was through my model agency that I got my first acting job. 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. Geena, I want to start with you. As the staggering statistics on gender parity continue to demonstrate, though, not much has changed. MARTIN: And they just cant believe that it is what it is. It'll ruin your career was the thinking. And I had spent so much time in a field where you're measured by people's judgment, you know, where, you know, you're approved of by others' opinions rather than factual merit. Its always been that way. Netflix | Apple TV | Amazon Video | Vudu | FandangoNOW | Kanopy | Hoopla, Directed by: Tom Donahue . And why does that matter? And she doesnt know its her period because she had never been taught that by her mother. JENNIFER LAWRENCE: Its our time to have wage equality once and for all and equal . The coming of sound meant they needed big capital investment. Slovene Women are socialized to go along with the dominant patriarch. 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. 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. This was my plan (laughter). Why hasnt it changed before now? I knew I wanted to be in movies, as opposed to theater. But that was my plan. Its an alarm that calls us to fix an economic system that is already failing us in many ways. Russian This Changes Everything is, improbably, Kleins most optimistic book. DAVIS: They do. Yet we can seize this existential crisis to transform our failed economic system into something radically better. And a buddy movies are always men's movies. I'm sure it made a lot of money. And, you know, being harassed and all kinds of things going on, being not listened to, talked down to, all that stuff. Naomi Kleins This Changes Everything is a ground-breaking work on how climate change changes everything. She braids together the science, psychology, geopolitics, economics, ethics and activism that shape the climate question. Norwegian That was the first time where I was ever like, I guess, men dont see us women equal in this industry. GROSS: Well, what was wrong with that plan? And that action alone sent the numbers skyrocketing from 0.5% to 16% in just 10 years from 1985 to 1995. GROSS: In "A League Of Their Own." Can we play that? Anyone who then told me or told any other journalist in the future, its too hard, no, its not. And it was fantastic. I fear the message may continue to elude those who need to hear it the most. 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. It will be on air. Progress will happen when men take a stand, an emphatic Meryl Streep says. I - my daughter was a toddler, and I decided she was old enough to start watching preschool shows. 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 you wouldnt know it because of how it turns out, four percent post his school. But it's profoundly not the case right now. So theres something really deep and systemic going on. So it was all very shocking and great because what it really - well, first of all, I'll tell you how it affected me. GROSS: Maria Giese, let me move on to you. MARTIN: To that point, heres a scene from the film which speaks with that with Kimberly Pierce, the director, and Chloe Grace Moretz. Unions did not allow women because putting women in the unions meant lower pay and lower prestige. So Geena, I think some people might hear that and go, Oh, thats too bad but why? Running time: 1 hour 36 minutes. VarietyMagazine, If you care about justice you must see this. The catastrophic effects of climate change are viewed through the lens of those in the US northeast coast who suffered through Hurricane Sandy. DAVIS: Absolutely, which is fantastic. DONAHUE: Sure. For the rest of us, This Changes Everything will frustrate, enrage and maybe even inspire. MARTIN: In fact, theres a clip for that. Were they getting work? UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Everyone, listen up, please. And her actions led to an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission investigation into systemic discrimination against women directors in Hollywood. Overview. 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. And then for a couple of movies after that, I had to learn other physical skills like horseback riding and taekwondo and fencing and ice skating and a lot of stuff. Polish GROSS: Yeah. Lithuanian But as time went on and I became more empowered, I started really noticing. Bring me my tiny violin. I'm Terry Gross. So I thats when I learned about the work of Geena in her institute and how important onscreen representation was. Filmed over 211 shoot days in nine countries and five continents over four years,This Changes Everythingis an epic attempt to re-imagine the vast challenge of climate change. Copy may not be in its final form. A group of disillusioned young women have disappeared. And everything gets in the way of that, every possible thought you have, every different circumstance. She's best known for her starring roles in "Thelma & Louise," "A League Of Their Own," and "Beetlejuice." So I started making this movie. It ultimately all worked out for me, but the likelihood of becoming a famous model was actually pretty slim, and I didn't. He was the photographer for "Soul Train" and took photos for Jet, Ebony and the black-owned LA newspaper Soul. 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. And I'd be like, which part exactly? DAVIS: Absolutely, yes. She's in Paris. Harvey Weinstein, of course, comes to mind. And very quickly, the coaches were saying, you know, you have a lot of untapped athletic ability. DAVIS: Well, I was astounded that it happened. It takes a bit of time for the documentary to find its groove. DAVIS: Yeah, it's very centering and focusing. A film that brings our peril into focus and what we might learn from despair. JOHN LANDGRAF, HEAD, FX: I had this unconscious bias that we would have to be making sacrifices to hire people with less experience. But how can you change the world if you've taken yourself out of it? SCREENING GUIDES. She ends up shooting him, and then you both go on the lam because you feel like, who's going to believe you? And she demonstrates precisely why the market has notand cannotfix the climate crisis but will instead make things worse, with ever more extreme and ecologically damaging extraction methods, accompanied by rampant disaster capitalism. GIESE: So in - five months after they received that letter from the ACLU, they began their investigation. I didn't want to try any sports because I was - I call it physically shy. (Laughter). But thats what we were worried about. But on the other hand, I sort of felt like, well, this is what was supposed to happen. GROSS: Geena Davis is featured in and is an executive producer of the new documentary "This Changes Everything," about the campaign for better representation of women in front of and behind the camera in movies and TV. Ukrainian. And this guy on the show named Alan Alda, who I was learning everything about. Like competing - if you're nervous, your shot's going to be off. But were not hearing womens voices or seeing the stories told through the female gaze when there are so few female directors. So there's no way for us to really know where the investigation is, even though it's now, oh - what? 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. And your role is as the entertainment director of a casino. 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. Global Release 2020, 2023 Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media. MARTIN: And you do make a point of saying in the film that 75 percent of the crew are women. DAVIS: Well, I definitely see a big shift happening in Hollywood in the past couple of years since #MeToo and Time's Up. And so it's just a battle with yourself the whole time. So what impact do you think it had both on audiences but also on Hollywood? So it was so horrifying to me that we would be doing this to kids that I decided I had to try to do something. And this is a buddy movie that's a women's movie. GROSS: Geena Davis, Maria Giese, thank you both so much for talking with us. 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. My guest Geena Davis starred in two movies about female empowerment - "Thelma & Louise" and "A League Of Their Own." . DONAHUE: So the cheaper shows on Netflix and Hulu. And - but nobody, and least of all him, nobody ever said, you realize you don't have to come every day? 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