MARTIN: Do you think its because your initial focus was on kids television? Netflix | Apple TV | Amazon Video | Vudu | FandangoNOW | Kanopy | Hoopla, Directed by: Tom Donahue She starts her own organization, the Geena Davis Institute, on gender in media to keep track of the imbalance. Directed by Avi Lewis JENNIFER LAWRENCE: Its our time to have wage equality once and for all and equal . You say in almost 100 years, only one woman has won an academy award for best director. But we were stunned at the reaction that was instant - cover of Time magazine and all that stuff. Nobody complained about anything because you felt that it would damage your career. Norwegian And I could see that I was not going to make any headway with them. Executive Producers: Geena Davis, Steve Edwards, Regina Scully, Simone Pero, Madeline Di Nonno, Jennie Peters, Patty Casby, Ku-Ling Yurman GROSS: If you're just joining us, my guests are both featured in the new documentary "This Changes Everything" about discrimination against women in Hollywood. They could say, what was I doing? MARTIN: So you can see it with kids entertainment? Audience Score 100+ Ratings. So thats why when it says 75 percent of women made this film, people actually clap at that line at the end. LANDGRAF: The minute we open our door and we say, come express it here, the work got better. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You directed an episode of it. So do you have any idea where things stand? The poster was designed by street artist Shepard Fairey, whose most famous work This Changes Everything Trailer Premieres in 26 languages and counting This Changes Everything August 26, 2015 Actress Geena Davis rallies Meryl Streep, Shonda Rhimes, Reese Witherspoon and others in this powerful documentary. And a little by little, I introduced them to a group of my female colleagues. Presenting portraits of communities on the front lines, This Changes Everything is an epic attempt to re-imagine the vast challenge of climate change. Maybe they just thought I really wanted to, that I wanted to be such a student of film that that was my goal. And the ending's kind of similar, where, you know, they kind of ride off a cliff, and you drive off a cliff. Profoundly, embarrassing few. Its not a spoiler to say that the documentary concludes with a call to action aimed squarely at (predominantly male) studio heads, pointing to the recent commitment to inclusive hiring by John Landgraf, the chief executive of the FX Networks, as an example of what real action can look like. And I learned that he was he called himself a feminist. The catastrophic effects of climate change are viewed through the lens of those in the US northeast coast who suffered through Hurricane Sandy. 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 . 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. I get to have opinions, I get to be smart. 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. Nothing is certain. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Everyone, listen up, please. 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 . Thelma & Louise was supposed to have done it. DAVIS: Well, I mean, come on. And there is also no human resources department that these women can go to. I think the big advantage was that people who make kids entertainment do it because they care about kids. And this guy on the show named Alan Alda, who I was learning everything about. We'll be right back. GIESE: Yes, Title VII, which was written into law in 1964 by President Johnson. MARTIN: Have you felt your career jeopardized by your unspokeness about this? 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. GROSS: In "A League Of Their Own." GROSS: A battle with yourself to not battle with yourself. DONAHUE: Yes. Director Avi Lewis Writer He said no, that's the whole point is competing. In this part of the interview, I'm going to talk more with Davis about her own movie career. GIESE: I first went to the EEOC in 2013. And you say in the film that you were watching something with your daughter. In October, at a special ceremony, she'll receive an honorary Oscar, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. And so I thought, this is an enormous problem if we are training kids from the beginning that girls are second-class citizens. The coming of sound meant they needed big capital investment. GIESE: So in - five months after they received that letter from the ACLU, they began their investigation. GROSS: This is FRESH AIR. 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. We dont have to wait for things to turn around in real life. Is that why because no studio heads appeared in this film because theyre so embarrassed? UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I was very lucky because Greys Anatomy was developed under the network presence. It looks like we don't have any synopsis for this title yet. They founded the Directors Guild of Americas Womens Steering Committee in 1979. Where's her bathing suit stuff? I'm Terry Gross. And then I had to play the best baseball player anyone has ever seen hold a bat. French Why hasnt it changed before now? And you wouldnt know it because of how it turns out, four percent post his school. GROSS: There's Dustin Hoffman, who plays this man who can't get roles, finally auditions for a role posing as a woman in a soap opera. And we started to have meetings with them. TV-PG. German And so I learned at 36 that I actually was coordinated. The first film you directed was shown at the Cannes Film Festival. GROSS: But you're in your underwear. DAVIS: Well, no, no. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. 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. MARTIN: Well, you do interview one executive, the head of FX, John Landgraf. So Geena, will you just tell us what the title is referring to? GIESE: Well, I understood very quickly that the numbers in and of themselves inferred violations of Title VII. 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). So theres something really deep and systemic going on. GROSS: Well, what was wrong with that plan? 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. 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. So they were driven out of the unions. GROSS: Did you think of it as discrimination against older women? 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. JOHN LANDGRAF, HEAD, FX: I had this unconscious bias that we would have to be making sacrifices to hire people with less experience. Its not going to benefit you. This Changes Everything Review: Hollywoods Men, Called to Action, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/08/movies/this-changes-everything-review.html. Directed by Avi Lewis, and inspired by Naomi Kleins international non-fiction bestsellerThis Changes Everything, the film presents seven powerful portraits of communities on the front lines, from Montanas Powder River Basin to the Alberta Tar Sands, from the coast of South India to Beijing and beyond. DAVIS: Well, the bigger part was the (laughter) - that Sydney liked my audition. 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. And I started to do research. Hilary Weston Writers Trust Prize for Nonfiction. When you have 150 men on set and one woman, how is that woman protected? You know, the "Teletubbies" are gender-balanced; I don't know if you can tell. It's really fun and incredibly challenging. 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. And very quickly, the coaches were saying, you know, you have a lot of untapped athletic ability. And then I saw it everywhere. GROSS: It's like, he's short; you're really tall. She's in Paris. Go behind the scenes of Netflix TV shows and movies, see what's coming soon and watch bonus videos on. DAVIS: Not at all. Nothing except that climate change changes everything. Swedish I haven't really ever had to describe what it's about. And I just want an excuse to be able to do that (laughter). Ukrainian. So here was my hero calling himself a feminist. They're both featured in the new documentary "This Changes Everything" about discrimination against women in front of and behind the camera in Hollywood. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. Geena, I want to start with you. And they got really excited. This is a rush transcript. You can pick up a lot on a set. 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. Yet we can seize this existential crisis to transform our failed economic system into something radically better. Reese Witherspoon: The basis of your thinking is determined by the first images you see; whose values are important and whose stories are important, and that's what we're teaching little girls and little boys. . Overview. So Geena, I think some people might hear that and go, Oh, thats too bad but why? The numbers have obviously not improved for decades. 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. Climate change isnt just another issue to be neatly filed between taxes and health care. This Changes Everything has been translated into 27 languages: Arabic A star-studded documentary about gender inequality in film and TV is equal parts history lesson and constructive criticism. Bring me my tiny violin. Like why do I care? Its the chivalry of the 21st century.. OK. Let me just play a clip from him in the film. DAVIS: Hopefully not. 47%. And she doesnt know its her period because she had never been taught that by her mother. 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. But what I did, also as Geena, was start looking at the numbers, and I started to notice that only 4% of studio features were directed by women, and only 13% of episodic TV shows were directed by women. How did you take up archery? About the author. MARTIN: I think it was Maya Angelou who said you cant be what you cant see. 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. I never got another paying job. So I knew that we could invoke that law to be able to change things in a very significant way. Actress Geena Davis rallies Meryl Streep, Shonda Rhimes, Reese Witherspoon and others in this . And for me, it was no big deal to want to take the man until here and try to tell this story. And I think its because what I decided to do was I wanted the research so I could go directly to the creators and share it with them in a private and very friendly way because I knew they didnt know what they were doing. GROSS: And doesn't know where to put his eyes. She's interesting. So I had been very unathletic as a kid. Naomi Kleins This Changes Everything is a ground-breaking work on how climate change changes everything. They're both featured in the new documentary about that campaign called "This Changes Everything.". It was my first audition, and they had called model agencies to say, send any models who can act for an audition. Dutch . 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. In the directors guild, there were only two women I think up until the 1960s who were members of the union. (Laughter). I get to be a doctor. For more details, visit the official This Changes Everything website, where youll find more Press information and Endnotes. 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