this changes everything documentary transcript

And it was just, you know, doing a video with a casting assistant. We'll be right back. French It's a lonely sport because you're out there for hours every day shooting by yourself. This documentary on climate change and its causes focuses largely on stories of human connection to the land, some who try to control the land, while others who see humans as temporary stewards of the land to pass to future generations. And you wouldnt know it because of how it turns out, four percent post his school. Its the chivalry of the 21st century.. Running time: 1 hour 36 minutes. So why does the behind the camera representation matter so much? The most profound threat to humanity is the war our economic model is waging against life on earth. But that was my plan. Geena Davis is also an executive producer of the film. This Changes Everything is a brilliant explanation of why the climate crisis challenges us to abandon the core free market ideology of our time, restructure the global economy, and remake our political systems. 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. And they got really excited. The story goes full circle back to Alberta and what should or needs to be done to combat climate change while dealing with the economy and thus people's short term well-being. VarietyMagazine, If you care about justice you must see this. Is that why because no studio heads appeared in this film because theyre so embarrassed? In October, at a special ceremony, she'll receive an honorary Oscar, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. You know, some shows are researched and all that and certainly harmless. 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. And very quickly, the coaches were saying, you know, you have a lot of untapped athletic ability. 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. GEENA DAVIS: Well, it was pretty dramatic. The film combines talking-head interviews with drill-down stats and the backstory on legal actions taken to force accountability from studio heads. And so I learned at 36 that I actually was coordinated. So they were driven out of the unions. 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. Now we will see so many more female buddy pictures, female road movies or whatever and movies about female friendship. And that action alone sent the numbers skyrocketing from 0.5% to 16% in just 10 years from 1985 to 1995. With - the other thing that I loved about it was that it's measured by points. GROSS: So Geena Davis, I have a few questions for you about your career. JOHN LANDGRAF, HEAD, FX: I had this unconscious bias that we would have to be making sacrifices to hire people with less experience. And I could see that I was not going to make any headway with them. DAVIS: Images are so powerful that it will impact real life. Italian It takes an incisive look at the history, empirical evidence, and systemic forces that foster gender discrimination and thus reinforce disparity in our culture. And there is also no human resources department that these women can go to. DAVIS: Yeah, it's very centering and focusing. And you try really hard to, like, throw him off of you. Suddenly, they could see what they were doing, and weve yet to leave any meeting where somebody doesnt say, you just changed my project. You know, they just determined to do it, and they're very creative and they make it happen. Watch This Changes Everything: Men Don't See Us Women Equal. No one movie can persuade an industry to suddenly reverse decades of discrimination and redistribute power to include the less powerful. DAVIS: Right. MARTIN: Have you felt your career jeopardized by your unspokeness about this? DAVIS: Not at all. So, like, it seems like a lot of the change is happening from women like that who are creating the change themselves. The main thing that's very different is now it's completely OK to talk about this stuff. And they started to reach out to interview many, many women, as many women directors as they could. And a buddy movies are always men's movies. GROSS: And you even competed to be on the Olympic archery team. She's got a handgun, pulls it on him, asks him to apologize. DONAHUE: But also, Reese Witherspoon says in the film that sometimes she would go on set and it would be 115 men and she would be the only woman. 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. The New York Times Book Review called it The most momentous and contentious environmental book since Silent Spring.. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I think they just dont like me. . 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 . GROSS: So what did you learn being on set? And womens films do make more money and have, I think, over the last three years. Directed by Avi Lewis, and inspired by Naomi Klein's international non-fiction bestseller This Changes Everything, the film presents seven powerful portraits of communities on the front lines, from Montana's Powder River Basin to the Alberta Tar Sands, from the coast of South India to Beijing and beyond. I was a feminist since I was 10-years-old because I came from a very right-wing family. MARTIN: But Geena, this has to have happened to you throughout your career? 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. So you started your career as a model. She's featured in the movie and as an executive producer of the film. GROSS: came into play here, too, because there's more of you for Dustin Hoffman to be fazed by when he walks in. DAVIS: Well, I was astounded that it happened. AMANPOUR: Yes. And in May 2015, The New York Times published the ACLU's 15-page letter to the EEOC and to other government agencies, calling for an industry-wide federal investigation into systemic discrimination against women directors. And a little by little, I introduced them to a group of my female colleagues. GROSS: So what about other women you knew from film school? So I learned through him about the equal rights amendment, about Gloria Steinem and Marlo Thomas and that girl and I became a fan of Mary Tyler Moore. (Interestingly, the film was directed by a man, Tom Donahue. Most importantly, the film seeks pathways and solutions from within and outside the industry, and around the world. She ends up shooting him, and then you both go on the lam because you feel like, who's going to believe you? Michael Mann tells Christiane Amanpour why we need to rethink what we eat and how we produce it. Can we pull off these changes in time? I went down to the downtown LA courthouse, and I found that six very courageous women in the Directors Guild in 1979 had got the DGA, our union, to file a class action lawsuit against several major studios. So and it wasnt really until after Me Too and all that happened that we all realized, this is different now. When Dani Arnold broke Ueli Steck's speed record climbing the Eiger in 2011, it sparked a duel between them across the six great north faces of the Alps. And - but nobody, and least of all him, nobody ever said, you realize you don't have to come every day? GROSS: The one with the feathers and DAVIS: The one with the feathers and rhinestones? LANDGRAF: The minute we open our door and we say, come express it here, the work got better. There's also people like Ryan Murphy, who has that initiative called Half, where he just decided and announced that half of his cast and crew were always going to be female. She's in Paris. I never got another paying job. And I explained to them why I thought that this was so significant on a global level. But for the most part, I saw appalling gender imbalance. makes a muscular case for global warming as the defining, cross-sectional issue of our era. a scene from This Changes Everything, the documentary. Maria Giese is a director who felt shut out for being a woman. This sudden change in how people reacted when they recognized me was very, very pronounced. DAVIS: Well, the bigger part was the (laughter) - that Sydney liked my audition. Film schools are now half female. GROSS: My guests are actor Geena Davis and director Maria Giese. 'This Changes Everything' Review: Compelling Documentary Tackles Hollywood Gender Inequality Head-On By Pete Hammond July 18, 2019 4:17pm At one point in the powerful and fascinating new. So it was all very shocking and great because what it really - well, first of all, I'll tell you how it affected me. I felt very unhappy with having that sort of imposed on me by other people. Change or be changed, but make no mistake, this changes everything.. What if confronting the climate crisis is the best chance we'll ever get to build a better world? We have been told its impossible to get off fossil fuels when in fact we know exactly how to do itit just requires breaking every rule in the free-market playbook: reining in corporate power, rebuilding local economies, and reclaiming our democracies. Romanian LANDGRAF: And Im here to say its there. 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). Didnt seem to happen. So what impact do you think it had both on audiences but also on Hollywood? Still. When you have 150 men on set and one woman, how is that woman protected? As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. And so thats what I did and, in fact, its proven that theyre incredibly grateful and horrified and embarrassed. GROSS: How did you decide to create your institute? DAVIS: Well, it did in a way. 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. He's just decided that that's what he's going to do. You know, God forbid you complain about your salary not being equal or being harassed or mistreated or discriminated against because they'll just get somebody else, you know? 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. MORETZ: The biggest part of the movie is when she gets her period for the first time in the shower. This documentary takes a deep look at gender disparity in Hollywood through the eyes of well-known actresses and female filmmakers. You go out to the parking lot with him, and he starts to rape you. 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. YES Magazine Here it is. This Changes Everything. DONAHUE: Its funny. Published in 2014, it debuted at #5 on the New York Times list and at #1 in Canada. I felt its my duty as a feminist, male or otherwise. Klein argues that the changes to our relationship with nature and one another that are required to respond to the climate crisis humanely should not be viewed as grim penance, but rather as a kind of gifta catalyst to transform broken economic and cultural priorities and to heal long-festering historical wounds. ELLEN POMPEO: All the parts that I had been auditioning for were the girlfriend or the wife, so I did notice immediately that, oh, I get to be the lead role. 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. Catalan JENNIFER LAWRENCE: Its our time to have wage equality once and for all and equal . We have also been told that humanity is too greedy and selfish to rise to this challenge. Actress Geena Davis rallies Meryl Streep, Shonda Rhimes, Reese Witherspoon and others in this powerful documentary. Promotional materials, trailers & welcome video. DAVIS: In "A League Of Their Own," yeah. . 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. JOIN NOW. Presenting portraits of communities on the front lines, This Changes Everything is an epic attempt to re-imagine the vast challenge of climate change. ', A work of startling force, exhaustive reporting, and telling anecdote . DONAHUE: Yes. Croatian And I'd like to see if I could do that. GROSS: This is FRESH AIR. My understanding is they don't make their investigation public. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You directed an episode of it. Absolutely not. GIESE: So in - five months after they received that letter from the ACLU, they began their investigation. The economic drivers of the carbon society are highlighted by the economic crisis in Greece in the early 2000s, where some saw the only solution to get out of the crisis being to sell off the land to the highest bidder, those highest bidders often being resource extraction companies. Russian Did you think of it as there not being enough roles for women in their 40s? In 2012, my archery coach noticed that when both Brave and The Hunger Games came out, suddenly the percentage of girls taking up archery shot up 105 percent, higher than adult men. There are going to be so many more movies with women starring and everything. 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. I was very upset and angry at that happening to me. We were made to feel very dispensable. So I sat down with her, and the very first show I turned on and watched with her, I pretty much immediately noticed something, and I thought, wait a minute - how many female characters are in this show? When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. Transcript A new documentary explores how women in Hollywood are pushing for more representation in front of and behind the camera. Ukrainian, Arabic UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Everyone, listen up, please. She starts her own organization, the Geena Davis Institute, on gender in media to keep track of the imbalance. 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. Here it is. 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. In 2004, she founded the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media. And your role is as the entertainment director of a casino. But thats what we were worried about. But the biggest reaction of all was the press saying, like the title of the movie, this is going to change everything. DAVIS: Oh, so - gosh. You were working with Dustin Hoffman. 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. You putting men in charge basically driving women and people of color out. Now, this changes everything. And it hasnt changed in all that time. 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, Like a Rolling Stone: The Life & Times of Ben Fong-Torres, Late Night with Seth Meyers: Milo Ventimiglia/Geena Davis/Ex Hex/Julian Dorio. DONAHUE: Sure. I thought, this is incredibly unfair, and I don't want other people deciding that I have to work less, you know, and taking away opportunities. You say in almost 100 years, only one woman has won an academy award for best director. And I think the first thing to change will be on screen. Accuracy and availability may vary. Unlike many works about the climate crisis, this is not a film that tries to scare the audience into action: it aims to empower. Also was named Observer Book of the Year and a New York Times Book Review 100 Notable Books of the Year and Margaret Atwood chose it for The Guardians Best Books of 2014 list. 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. So I gathered all my articles and all the work that I had done, and I had even written the beginnings of a legal brief, and I brought it to the ACLU, where I met Melissa Goodman and Ariela Migdal. Original filename: Naomi Klein - This Changes Everything.pdf URL: https://pdf.yt/d/Skb-ch_k7psDm90Q LANDGRAF: And maybe that the talent wouldnt be there. makes a muscular case for global warming as the defining, cross-sectional issue of our era., [A]robust new polemic . A new documentary explores how women in Hollywood are pushing for more representation in front of and behind the camera. 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. Recorded by CBC Ideasafter the historic December 2015 Paris Climate meeting, in this lecture, Naomi analyzed the failures of that Agreement and discussed ways to move forward from it. GROSS: Geena Davis, let me bring you back into the conversation. MARTIN: Every person that Ive spoken with who have seen the film is just shocked by it. And I was - well, I was mostly thrilled that my first job was not playing, you know, a corpse in a morgue on a soap opera or something. DONAHUE: They cant really complain to their agent or their manager because theyre just going to tell them just go with it, just be quiet. 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. Bosnian MARIA GIESE: My first feature film directing job out of graduate film school was in England, not in the United States. 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. 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. . This is FRESH AIR. But I said, at some point, you got to get me into a showgirl costume because it's kind of a fantasy of mine to wear one of those things, you know, with a giant headdress and all that. Starring Naomi Klein Stacey Arwen Raab. Produced with New Plot Films in association with the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, David Yurman, and . DAVIS: Well, it was completely random in some ways. Global Release 2020, 2023 Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media. Polish Portuguese MARTIN: In fact, theres a clip for that. He said no, that's the whole point is competing. Its always been that way. Naomi Kleins fourth book, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate was published in September 2014 and was an instant New York Times and international bestseller. Its the lowest hanging fruit possible. Actress Geena Davis rallies Meryl Streep, Shonda Rhimes, Reese Witherspoon and others in this . And then the second thing were unions. 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