this changes everything documentary transcript

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. GROSS: So you went to the ACLU, and then the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission became involved, too. 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. Great doc until the credits rolled Late Night with Seth Meyers: Milo Ventimiglia/Geena Davis/Ex Hex/Julian Dorio. I get to have opinions, I get to be smart. 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. 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. 0000004824 00000 n MARTIN: And you do make a point of saying in the film that 75 percent of the crew are women. There are some tonal problems here, particularly around the way the film tends to homogenize very disparate views and opinions into one sweet, easily digestible polemical smoothie. GROSS: This is FRESH AIR. That was supposed to happen after Thelma & Louise came out. He was the photographer for "Soul Train" and took photos for Jet, Ebony and the black-owned LA newspaper Soul. 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. GROSS: The one with the feathers and DAVIS: The one with the feathers and rhinestones? And it was just, you know, doing a video with a casting assistant. And she founded an institute to study gender discrimination in Hollywood. GROSS: But you were with Sydney Pollack. The numbers have obviously not improved for decades. DONAHUE: They tend to deny the problem after seeing the film. Christy Lemire is a longtime film critic who has written for RogerEbert.com since 2013. Watch This Changes Everything | Netflix 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. LANDGRAF: The minute we open our door and we say, come express it here, the work got better. Global Release 2020, 2023 Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media. Turkish Chinese Complex Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at www.npr.org for further information. Croatian Yet we can seize this existential crisis to transform our failed economic system into something radically better. You were working with Dustin Hoffman. And there is also no human resources department that these women can go to. DAVIS: It was very specific, actually. After the release of This Changes Everything book and film, Naomi went on a sold out tour to speak to audiences worldwide. Better yet, it also explains how folks are now pushing back and using the law, media pressure and other forms of recourse to change the numbers. Reese Witherspoon, Jessica Chastain, Meryl Streep, Rashida Jones, Natalie Portman, Tracee Ellis Ross and many, many more actresses talk passionately and persuasively about the need to kick the door open and tell womens stories in ways that are real and rich. 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 representation in media. This Changes Everything is a 2018 American documentary film, directed by Tom Donahue. And two and a half years later, I was a semifinalist for the Olympic trials. Actress Geena Davis rallies Meryl Streep, Shonda Rhimes, Reese Witherspoon and others in this powerful documentary. We have also been told that humanity is too greedy and selfish to rise to this challenge. And womens films do make more money and have, I think, over the last three years. 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. So here was my hero calling himself a feminist. 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 . The coming of sound meant they needed big capital investment. Film schools are now half female. We were made to feel very dispensable. GROSS: Yes, you're not fazed by seeing Dustin Hoffman walk in because you think he's really a woman. Tom Donahue . . But on the other hand, I sort of felt like, well, this is what was supposed to happen. So Geena, I think some people might hear that and go, Oh, thats too bad but why? GROSS: So what about other women you knew from film school? Japanese Korean JOHN LANDGRAF, HEAD, FX: I had this unconscious bias that we would have to be making sacrifices to hire people with less experience. 0000023356 00000 n That was the first time where I was ever like, I guess, men dont see us women equal in this industry. DAVIS: Well, it did in a way. So I knew the way to move the numbers and to make real significant change was through legal action. SANDRA OH: Shonda was able to make half of her cast not white. And I also expected it to be not true anymore by the time I would get to that age. %PDF-1.5 % 0000010605 00000 n Or did you think, oh, it's me - no one wants me anymore? And this is in every sector of society, its the same story. Anyone who then told me or told any other journalist in the future, its too hard, no, its not. GROSS: And you even competed to be on the Olympic archery team. And that was an extraordinary triumph. Thats the problem. 0000010793 00000 n UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Everyone, listen up, please. Runtime. But when she got older and roles started to dry up, she realized how unempowered women were in Hollywood. You can pick up a lot on a set. MARTIN: So you can see it with kids entertainment? And then maybe five years later, another movie comes out with a female star. Finnish Be the first to contribute. 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 . But on the way, they must confront what it means to be different. Running time: 1 hour 36 minutes. She founded an institute, the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media. This documentary takes a deep look at gender disparity in Hollywood through the eyes of well-known actresses and female filmmakers. 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. makes a muscular case for global warming as the defining, cross-sectional issue of our era. And you wouldnt know it because of how it turns out, four percent post his school. DAVIS: Oh, so - gosh. You know, the "Teletubbies" are gender-balanced; I don't know if you can tell. 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. She's best known for her starring roles in "Thelma & Louise," "A League Of Their Own," and "Beetlejuice." So why does the behind the camera representation matter so much? Well, do they have any photos of her in a bathing suit? She had to fight really hard to get them to put it on the air. 0000004981 00000 n Can you talk about that? Which really isn't very old. This Changes Everything: Directed by Tom Donahue. But it didnt take her long to realize that she was the exception and not the rule. But so I think that will change and I think it will impact society, that life will imitate art. It really started for me at the end of 2014 with the Sony hack and finding out about the disparity in pay between Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper in American Hustle. This Changes Everything educates and inspires. 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 . this changes everything documentary transcript

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