As an asteroid hurtles towards Earth with nothing to stop it, one determined teacher fights to keep her former students safe no matter the cost. Swedish It was night and day, where before, they might say, hey, "Beetlejuice" or something. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. . They respond by organizing against fossil fuel extraction in their beloved Powder River Basin, and forming a new alliance with the Northern Cheyenne tribe to bring solar power to the nearby reservation. And then I had to play the best baseball player anyone has ever seen hold a bat. Chinese Simple What happened after that? GROSS: Let down your hair, as you put it. Ukrainian. Now, this changes everything. By what name was This Changes Everything (2018) officially released in India in English? But I loved it. . This documentary takes a deep look at gender disparity in Hollywood through the eyes of well-known actresses and female filmmakers. . But it didnt take her long to realize that she was the exception and not the rule. And then the second thing were unions. 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. Well, Tom, talk a little about what the problem is if you would. You putting men in charge basically driving women and people of color out. And I was like, you know, I was a huge fan of "GLOW" and very much wanted to do it. Klein and those impassioned protesters provide something that has been in short supply in the predecessors She's in Paris. I wasnt thinking, this is so unfair. But as time went on and I became more empowered, I started really noticing. MARTIN: Do you think its because your initial focus was on kids television? DONAHUE: They tend to deny the problem after seeing the film. For the record: 11:23 a.m. Aug. 8, 2019 An earlier version of this review included a photo from the 2015 climate-change documentary "This Changes Everything." Also in the review, the memory of . MARTIN: To that point, heres a scene from the film which speaks with that with Kimberly Pierce, the director, and Chloe Grace Moretz. Turkish I'm Terry Gross. Its always been that way. Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media is not a production company or talent agency.The organization does not solicit or accept autograph requests, manuscripts, project ideas, or other similar materials.If any such information is sent to us, we will return the material unread. This Changes Everything is, improbably, Kleins most optimistic book. Co-Producers: Jessicya Materano, Robin Kelleher We'll be right back. For more details, visit the official This Changes Everything website, where youll find more Press information and Endnotes. Well, we call the film This Changes Everything, because its about kind of why that doesnt happen. Script extract. She's interesting. 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. Lithuanian And womens films do make more money and have, I think, over the last three years. 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. DONAHUE: There hasnt been a lot of change. Maria Giese is a director who felt shut out for being a woman. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You directed an episode of it. GROSS: This is FRESH AIR. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I think they just dont like me. Good Deed Entertainment (Theatrical Premiere), Starz (Broadcast), VOD, TVOD. 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 . But it was television that showed me there it was another way, and it was a show called MASH. 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. MARIA GIESE: My first feature film directing job out of graduate film school was in England, not in the United States. So I knew that we could invoke that law to be able to change things in a very significant way. And there's a scene where you come out in - why don't you describe the costume. A parallel issue to what we've been talking about - we've been talking about inclusion of women - parallel issue is the predatory behavior of certain men in Hollywood - directors, actors, heads of companies. This Changes Everything. MARTIN: You know one of the things that really fascinated me about the film is that you point out it wasnt always this way. This Changes Everything. GROSS: Maria Giese, let me move on to you. And I learned that he was he called himself a feminist. Greek Norwegian MARTIN: In fact, theres a clip for that. Jyothi, a matriarch in Andhra Pradesh, India who sings sweetly and battles fiercely along with her fellow villagers, fighting a proposed coal-fired power plant that will destroy a life-giving wetland. Where's her bathing suit stuff? . -Alice Walker, author and activist, Purposely unsettling Ultimately encouraging 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 . Its not about carbonits about capitalism. Told first-hand by some of Hollywoods 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. And I was counting on my hands as I held her in my lap, and it was horrifying, and I was absolutely stunned. So I figured, well, I mean, what were the odds anyway I was going to be in a Sydney Pollack movie with Dustin Hoffman? 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. MARTIN: Talk to me about the Geena Davis Institute which you founded years ago. Her work led to an ongoing EEOC, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, investigation into systemic discrimination against women directors, as well as an ACLU campaign against discrimination. DAVIS: Hopefully not. DAVIS: It did well. A look at seven communities around the world with the proposition that we can seize the crisis of climate change to transform our failed economic system into something radically better. 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. Being so tall, I just didn't want anybody to look at me, especially if I was going to be failing at a sport. I always say go through the script and change it. [2] Because the next movie somebody makes could be gender-balanced. I'm talking about family-rated films. Published in 2014, it debuted at #5 on the New York Times list and at #1 in Canada. And I was kind of good at all of it. Theres no one they can complain to. Several women serve as executive producers, including Davis.). It's really fun and incredibly challenging. The film is a Canada-United States coproduction. This documentary takes a deep look at gender disparity in Hollywood through the eyes of well-known actresses and female filmmakers. Your first movie role, "Tootsie," you're in your underwear in the film. A determined detective continues his search for the truth behind Asia's largest drug organization and its elusive boss he has unfinished business with. GROSS: So what did you learn being on set? Turkish And so I did. 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. So I had been very unathletic as a kid. 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. You hear so many women speaking up when they encounter injustice and openly talking about it. And I also expected it to be not true anymore by the time I would get to that age. How did you take up archery? 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. We have been told the market will save us, when in fact the addiction to profit and growth is digging us in deeper every day. He's just decided that that's what he's going to do. PBS is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. Starring Naomi Klein Stacey Arwen Raab. DAVIS: Absolutely, which is fantastic. 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. And the ending's kind of similar, where, you know, they kind of ride off a cliff, and you drive off a cliff. Geena Davis is an actress who starred in such films as "A League Of Their Own" and "Thelma & Louise." DONAHUE: And then Patricia Arquette got up at the Oscars and demanded equal pay. Change or be changed, but make no mistake, this changes everything.. And so I thought, this is an enormous problem if we are training kids from the beginning that girls are second-class citizens. DAVIS: Well, it did in a way. My guest Geena Davis starred in two movies about female empowerment - "Thelma & Louise" and "A League Of Their Own." This is the 21st century. What if confronting the climate crisis is the best chance well ever get to build a better world? So thats why when it says 75 percent of women made this film, people actually clap at that line at the end. A work of startling force, exhaustive reporting, and telling anecdote . Give us some of the numbers that you find most disturbing. Its just very elevated because its in the entertainment world. 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. No one movie can persuade an industry to suddenly reverse decades of discrimination and redistribute power to include the less powerful. In the lawless land of Gando, fierce bandits will stop at nothing to fight for their precious homeland and loved ones even if it means life or death. To have these conversations with men, youre saying like, well, I dont think you should depict it that way and I think you should depict it this way. JENNIFER LAWRENCE: Its our time to have wage equality once and for all and equal . but like a place where we actually want to live Portuguese Book & Film Study Guide. And you wouldnt know it because of how it turns out, four percent post his school. The numbers have obviously not improved for decades. And you say in the film that you were watching something with your daughter. Klein meticulously builds the case for how massively reducing our greenhouse emissions is our best chance to simultaneously reduce gaping inequalities, re-imagine our broken democracies, and rebuild our gutted local economies. 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. Kleinexposes the myths that are clouding the climate debate. I'm Terry Gross. DONAHUE: So the cheaper shows on Netflix and Hulu. GROSS: And you even competed to be on the Olympic archery team. She had to fight really hard to get them to put it on the air. Progress will happen when men take a stand, an emphatic Meryl Streep says. When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. But how can you change the world if you've taken yourself out of it? 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. 10 Video Games That Need a Live Action Adaptation, 2023's Most Anticipated Sequels, Prequels, and Spin-offs. And, of course, it's all a joke. MARTIN: But Geena, this has to have happened to you throughout your career? The film brings Naomi Klein's radical, inspiring thesis to life through a connective thread of stories from people living and working on the front . 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. German And, you know, that's obviously an option that everybody can take. Grieving the loss of a best friend she couldnt protect, an ex-bodyguard sets out to fulfill her dear friends last wish: sweet revenge. But on the other hand, I sort of felt like, well, this is what was supposed to happen. Film Review: 'This Changes Everything' Before the #MeToo movement began, director Tom Donahue began assembling a documentary about gender inequality in Hollywood. It looks like we don't have any synopsis for this title yet. DAVIS: Well, it was completely random in some ways. 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. I want to ask you about "Thelma & Louise." 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. And everything gets in the way of that, every possible thought you have, every different circumstance. . The New York Times Book Review called it The most momentous and contentious environmental book since Silent Spring.. 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. MARTIN: Well, you do interview one executive, the head of FX, John Landgraf. I never got another paying job. Oh, no, we can't. We were made to feel very dispensable. Will this film change everything? Absolutely not. Its the chivalry of the 21st century.. 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. Well, it meant a little ironically. Since then it has been shown 1000s of times in community screenings around the world. 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