DAVIS: Well, the bigger part was the (laughter) - that Sydney liked my audition. Watch all you want. And they started to reach out to interview many, many women, as many women directors as they could. In this part of the interview, I'm going to talk more with Davis about her own movie career. Klein and Lewis paint a picture of a post-fossil-fueled, post-capitalist future that seems not only within reach, 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. AMANPOUR: Yes. MARTIN: Geena Davis, Tom Donahue, thank you so much for talking to us. I think the big advantage was that people who make kids entertainment do it because they care about kids. DAVIS: Well, so my character - they told me from the beginning - was a former showgirl who, when she was getting too old to do that, went into management and was able to create a successful career for herself that way. 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. I always say go through the script and change it. This is FRESH AIR. So you started your career as a model. By what name was This Changes Everything (2018) officially released in India in English? MARTIN: In fact, there is a clip in the film where you talk about the fact that representation in actually entertainment can actually matter in the real world. And for me, it was no big deal to want to take the man until here and try to tell this story. Film Review: 'This Changes Everything' Before the #MeToo movement began, director Tom Donahue began assembling a documentary about gender inequality in Hollywood. And so it's just a battle with yourself the whole time. 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. GROSS: And you even competed to be on the Olympic archery team. . What have they each done? UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: They dont care that Im black. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I think they just dont like me. TV-PG. A really decent doc, but like 99% of the reviews here, I'm completely dumbfounded why they hired a MALE to direct this. GIESE: I first went to the EEOC in 2013. You know, it was, like, an amazing introduction. So Geena, will you just tell us what the title is referring to? Chinese Simple 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. Danish GROSS: Yes, you're not fazed by seeing Dustin Hoffman walk in because you think he's really a woman. And so it was something they had no idea they were doing, and the data changed everything for them. Produced by: Ilan Arboleda, Kerianne Flynn, Tom Donahue And I was sure they must be right and waiting for this fabulous future that was coming. They're both featured in the new documentary about that campaign called "This Changes Everything.". 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. This Changes Everything. And then the second thing were unions. 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. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There is nothing funny here. DAVIS: Well, it was completely random in some ways. DAVIS: Not at all. 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. He refuses. GROSS: This is FRESH AIR. But how can you change the world if you've taken yourself out of it? Is that why because no studio heads appeared in this film because theyre so embarrassed? And then I had to play the best baseball player anyone has ever seen hold a bat. but like a place where we actually want to live Copyright 2019 NPR. . This is FRESH AIR. And I learned that he was he called himself a feminist. Nothing except that climate change changes everything. 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. Accuracy and availability may vary. And it also struck a nerve that none of us expected. 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. 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. I didn't want to try any sports because I was - I call it physically shy. 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 . GROSS: My guests are actor Geena Davis and director Maria Giese. Geena Davis is also an executive producer of the film. As defeated as one feels when you dont see a change happening, I really do think that it can and that it will. Absolutely not. This Changes Everything makes this point very clear, while also seeking to spark initiative. But so I think that will change and I think it will impact society, that life will imitate art. 2019 | Maturity Rating: 13+ | 1h 35m | Documentary Films. The coming of sound meant they needed big capital investment. 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. The New York Times Book Review called it The most momentous and contentious environmental book since Silent Spring.. She ends up shooting him, and then you both go on the lam because you feel like, who's going to believe you? When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. The epitome of WTF? And her actions led to an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission investigation into systemic discrimination against women directors in Hollywood. And if you're just joining us, my guest is actor Geena Davis and director Maria Giese. This is FRESH AIR. 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. For the rest of us, This Changes Everything will frustrate, enrage and maybe even inspire. All but one of the women were interviewed for this film, and Donahue takes his time to carefully lay out the details and takeaways of their efforts (which led the D.G.A. They could say, what was I doing? This Changes Everything. This is a rush transcript. GROSS: And you also are an archer - like bow and arrow archery. A star-studded documentary about gender inequality in film and TV is equal parts history lesson and constructive criticism. 47%. From left, Joelle Dobrow, Nell Cox, Susan Nimoy, Dolores Ferraro, Lynne Littman and Victoria Hochberg in 1980. A determined detective continues his search for the truth behind Asia's largest drug organization and its elusive boss he has unfinished business with. DAVIS: Well, I definitely see a big shift happening in Hollywood in the past couple of years since #MeToo and Time's Up. Geena Davis and Tom Donahue sit down with Hari Sreenivasan to discuss their new film This Changes Everything, which tackles the need for more female representation in media. Global Release 2020, 2023 Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media. GROSS: Yeah. The authoritative record of NPRs programming is the audio record. You had a small role. And so I never asked any questions, and I didn't know that you didn't have to come every day. I think my peers and I were always operating under the assumption that you should never complain about anything. 2019 | Maturity Rating: TV-MA | 1h 35m | Documentary Films. LANDGRAF: The minute we open our door and we say, come express it here, the work got better. And this is a buddy movie that's a women's movie. And everything gets in the way of that, every possible thought you have, every different circumstance. 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. 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. French Documentary. 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 . German Film schools are now half female. And, of course, it's all a joke. 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. This Changes Everything August 31, 2015 We're excited to share the official poster for This Changes Everything the documentary! MICHEL MARTIN, CONTRIBUTOR: Geena Davis, Tom Donahue, thank you so much for talking to us. He's got you pinned against a car. MARTIN: Have you felt your career jeopardized by your unspokeness about this? How did you take up archery? And so I learned at 36 that I actually was coordinated. This Changes Everything is, improbably, Kleins most optimistic book. Script extract. This Changes Everything. Actress Geena Davis rallies Meryl Streep, Shonda Rhimes, Reese Witherspoon and others in this . Produced with New Plot Films in association with the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, David Yurman, and . LA Times. 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 . Synopsis Based on Naomi Klein's book This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate, a look at how people in various communities around the world play a role in the ongoing climate change debate and how they're affecting change in trying to prevent the environmental destruction of our planet. Korean 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. Slovene Of the top 100 grossing films of 2017, male-lead characters received twice as much screen time as female leads. What are we doing? You were working with Dustin Hoffman. And I'd be like, which part exactly? From Thelma & Louise to A League of Their Own, the Oscar-winning actress Geena Davis made her name with her strong female characters. Maybe they just thought I really wanted to, that I wanted to be such a student of film that that was my goal. 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