PG. This is FRESH AIR. So Geena, I think some people might hear that and go, Oh, thats too bad but why? GROSS: And you even competed to be on the Olympic archery team. There are going to be so many more movies with women starring and everything. In partnership with The Guardian, we are very proud to unveil this first ever sneak peek at the work-in-progress companion documentary film to This Changes Everything, directed by Avi Lewis. She speaks candidly about the way shes been depicted on screen, how she and many others thought the revolutionary Thelma & Louise would change everything (hence the title) back in 1991, and the research shes done on the portrayal of women in childrens programming through her Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media. DAVIS: Right. . Go behind the scenes of Netflix TV shows and movies, see what's coming soon and watch bonus videos on. For more details, visit the official This Changes Everything website, where youll find more Press information and Endnotes. In a dystopian future devastated by air pollution, the survival of humanity depends on the Black Knights and theyre far from your average deliverymen. Like competing - if you're nervous, your shot's going to be off. We should be showing kids that boys and girls share the same bicycle. 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: Absolutely, yes. 0000045243 00000 n This Changes Everything tries to get its arms around a lot, from appalling anecdotes of abhorrent behavior to deep historical context from the silent era to the modern-day repercussions of the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements. It was a small budget, and we hoped somebody would see it and not object to the ending. - Thelma & Louise you went, that's it, the whole industry's gonna change. You know, it was, like, an amazing introduction. 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. 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. But it's profoundly not the case right now. But then the film loses momentum when it wanders into the weeds of various lawsuits and instances of workplace discrimination. - because it was a big hit. GROSS: But you were with Sydney Pollack. 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. Of the top 100 grossing films of 2017, male-lead characters received twice as much screen time as female leads. Turkish None of this information is new, and its been a dismaying trend for decades. GROSS: So Geena Davis, I have a few questions for you about your career. 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. . 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. Davis and director Maria Giese discuss the dramatic disparities on screen. And it's a buddy movie. TAX ID# 86-1943473, Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, 4712 Admiralty Way #455, Marina del Rey, CA 90292. You say in almost 100 years, only one woman has won an academy award for best director. DAVIS: Not at all. . Great doc until the credits rolled Late Night with Seth Meyers: Milo Ventimiglia/Geena Davis/Ex Hex/Julian Dorio. And she documents the inspiring movements that have already begun this process: communities that are not just refusing to be sites of further fossil fuel extraction but are building the next, regeneration-based economies right now. 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. By what name was This Changes Everything (2015) officially released in India in English? The main thing that's very different is now it's completely OK to talk about this stuff. 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. 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. MARTIN: In the age of silent films, women directed a lot of films. 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. DONAHUE: Its funny. 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, the Leila and Mickey Straus Family Charitable Trust, Mark J. Blechner, Seton J. Melvin, Bernard and Denise Schwartz, Koo and Patricia Yuen, Barbara Hope Zuckerberg, Jeffrey Katz and Beth Rogers, the Filomen M. DAgostino Foundation, Josh Weston and. Inspired by Naomi Klein's international non-fiction bestseller This Changes Everything, the film presents seven . 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. It'll ruin your career was the thinking. Its always been that way. And this is according to the Center for the Study of Women and Television and Film in San Diego State University. And so obviously you only come when you're shooting, but I came every day at the beginning of the day (laughter) and grabbed my chair and put it next to Sydney and sat next to him all day, every day, making the movie. . - It didn't change anything. And I saw the director was a white male. We have also been told that humanity is too greedy and selfish to rise to this challenge. Yet we can seize this existential crisis to transform our failed economic system into something radically better. A work of startling force, exhaustive reporting, and telling anecdote . An examination of sexism in the Hollywood film industry, the film interviews a variety of actresses and women filmmakers on their experiences in the industry.. Lucky for everybody then that opening up such spaces is exactly what Klein does best., This is the best book about climate change in a very long timein large part because its about much more. Against the backdrop of Greece in crisis, a powerful social movement rises. GROSS: So the EEOC has been conducting an investigation into systemic discrimination against women directors. One of the films main, salient points is that it isnt all that hard to find gifted, visionary women to direct, and that the powers that beagents, studio executives, producers, etc.simply havent bothered to look for far too long. CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR: Now, whether in politics or science or any other field, one thing is for sure, we need more women now. And I learned that he was he called himself a feminist. Christy Lemire is a longtime film critic who has written for RogerEbert.com since 2013. You had a small role. I very much expected that that would not be the case. Dutch 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. DAVIS: Well, the bigger part was the (laughter) - that Sydney liked my audition. GROSS: So what about other women you knew from film school? GROSS: This is FRESH AIR. I never got another paying job. GROSS: Well, what was wrong with that plan? MARTIN: Well, you do interview one executive, the head of FX, John Landgraf. Director. UV*-Z=mCFv^v -9ty9D,uRT]"-%x78hDntTKtUl1'=;+p#\>sj.`#SZO6:1`]pu*]!!Gqq QhfNtvR1#k. But the biggest reaction of all was the press saying, like the title of the movie, this is going to change everything. Its a subject this interviewee here, as well as one of the films executive producers, Geena Davis, is clearly passionate about. Where's her bathing suit stuff? It takes an incisive look at the history, empirical evidence, and systemic forces that foster gender discrimination and thus reinforce disparity in our culture. Well, get her back. So let me just play that clip. Its not going to benefit you. This Changes Everything (R eferred as TCE) Rezvaneh Rezapour, Jana Diesner January 2015 Summary of Project: we study the impact of Naomi Klein's book, This Changes Everything, in . Greek 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. . GROSS: And I just think it's so interesting that we're having this conversation about women's empowerment and inclusion of women, and the first part of your career revolves around being in your underwear (laughter). 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. And I think thats but also part of it is that my peers and I felt like you cannot complain about any of this because they wont hire you. And then after about a year and a half, they told me they were going to pursue it. Emerging economies in the developing world have tried to follow the western model for economic prosperity, with arguably the most marked example of the negative consequences being in China where many cities are continually shrouded in smog, some children in those cities who have never seen a blue sky. Suddenly, they could see what they were doing, and weve yet to leave any meeting where somebody doesnt say, you just changed my project. The authoritative record of NPRs programming is the audio record. In the wake of her prom scandal, Princess Margrethe longs for normalcy as she struggles to maintain her perfect facade while dealing with family drama. I'm sure it made a lot of money. 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. And that, for me, became a battle worth fighting for. 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.