We'll be right back. A lot of negative reaction in the press too like, oh, no, the world is ruined now. He's just decided that that's what he's going to do. The Book, Documentary & Impact Project So here was my hero calling himself a feminist. There are going to be so many more movies with women starring and everything. And this is according to the Center for the Study of Women and Television and Film in San Diego State University. The catastrophic effects of climate change are viewed through the lens of those in the US northeast coast who suffered through Hurricane Sandy. Why hasnt it changed before now? ("This Changes Everything" features interviews with Callie Khouri, Kimberly Peirce, Sharon Stone, Amber Tamblyn, Rose McGowen, Amandla Stenberg, Chloe Grace Moretz, Taraji P. Henson, Natalie. But it was television that showed me there it was another way, and it was a show called MASH. Portuguese GIESE: You know, I did a lot of script writing and doctoring and - but no, no primetime TV shows, even though I observed for hundreds of hours on major TV shows like Dick Wolf's "Law & Order.". MARTIN: You make the connection in the film that its not just about, you know, the job, its the conditions at the job, that it is directly connected to these vicious examples of sexual harassment and abuse that women have experienced that have now come to the fore. Featuring interviews with Geena Davis, Meryl Streep, Natalie Portman, Taraji P. Henson, Reese Witherspoon, Cate Blanchett, Tiffany Haddish, Jill Soloway, Shonda Rhimes, Jessica Chastain, Yara Shahidi, Chloe Grace Moretz, Amandla Stenberg, Alan Alda, Sandra Oh, Anita Hill, Rashida Jones, Rose McGowan, Judd Apatow, Rosario Dawson, Maria Giese, and many other influential voices in the fight for gender equality. Spanish 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. When you have 150 men on set and one woman, how is that woman protected? Slovene Chinese Complex 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. Watch all you want. He's got you pinned against a car. Against the backdrop of Greece in crisis, a powerful social movement rises. MARTIN: Why do you think that was the click moment for you? A star-studded documentary about gender inequality in film and TV is equal parts history lesson and constructive criticism. Can you talk about that? Several women serve as executive producers, including Davis.). Watch This Changes Everything: Men Don't See Us Women Equal. AMANPOUR: Yes. A really decent doc, but like 99% of the reviews here, I'm completely dumbfounded why they hired a MALE to direct this. You were attached to other projects. And I got the part. that women are now dominating that field because we just saw it on T.V. 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. I'm going to ask you to describe the premise. Norwegian So I had a lot of training. And then after about a year and a half, they told me they were going to pursue it. Forget everything you think you know about global warming. A determined detective continues his search for the truth behind Asia's largest drug organization and its elusive boss he has unfinished business with. 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. Produced by: Ilan Arboleda, Kerianne Flynn, Tom Donahue MARTIN: But there are a number of women who are interviewed in this film whose careers have been damaged by speaking out. Its not going to benefit you. 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. Channeling the hurried nature of a TV docuseries edited to cover an extremely broad topic in a limited amount of time, the first act layers a lot of too-brief sound bites albeit from an impressive array of influential women, including Reese Witherspoon and Shonda Rhimes over movie clips emphasizing the prevalence of machismo and misogyny (The Godfather, for example) to almost dizzying effect. And so it kind of made sense in that way. MARTIN: about women in Hollywood and the underrepresentation of women in Hollywood? Book & Film Study Guide. They founded the Directors Guild of Americas Womens Steering Committee in 1979. 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. (Interestingly, the film was directed by a man, Tom Donahue. 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. Be the first to contribute. Was it a centering thing for you - focus? The coming of sound meant they needed big capital investment. Interwoven with these stories of struggle is Naomi Klein's narration, connecting the carbon in the air with the economic system that put it there. And, you know, that's obviously an option that everybody can take. [2] Interwoven with these stories of struggle is Kleins narration, connecting the carbon in the air with the economic system that put it there. GROSS: But you're in your underwear. GROSS: Geena Davis, Maria Giese, thank you both so much for talking with us. Which is why none of them appeared in this film? So there's no way for us to really know where the investigation is, even though it's now, oh - what? CHLOE GRACE MORETZ: When I was 15, I did Carrie. That movie was directed by Kim Pierce who was my first female director but it was a massively male crew. And I think the first thing to change will be on screen. 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. Maleeha Lodhi joins the program to explain tensions between Pakistan and India. GROSS: This is FRESH AIR. Finnish But were not hearing womens voices or seeing the stories told through the female gaze when there are so few female directors. So at 41, I took it up and then became absolutely obsessed, as I do with things. Even though Landgraf and several prominent men are interviewed, a title card notes that the studio heads the filmmakers reached out to declined to appear in the film. DAVIS: Well, I definitely see a big shift happening in Hollywood in the past couple of years since #MeToo and Time's Up. 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. Provocative, compelling, and accessible to even the most climate-fatigued viewers,This Changes Everythingwill leave you refreshed and inspired, reflecting on the ties between us, the kind of lives we really want, and why the climate crisis is at the centre of it all. And I was counting on my hands as I held her in my lap, and it was horrifying, and I was absolutely stunned. Naomi Kleins This Changes Everything is a ground-breaking work on how climate change changes everything. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I think they just dont like me. GROSS: Geena Davis, let me bring you back into the conversation. She had to fight really hard to get them to put it on the air. Globe & Mail 2019 | Maturity Rating: TV-MA | 1h 35m | Documentary Films. Im an optimist. I want to ask you about "Thelma & Louise." 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: Hopefully not. Hilary Weston Writers Trust Prize for Nonfiction. 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. So I knew that we could invoke that law to be able to change things in a very significant way. After the release of This Changes Everything book and film, Naomi went on a sold out tour to speak to audiences worldwide. . Geena Davis and Maria Giese, welcome to FRESH AIR. Give us some of the numbers that you find most disturbing. He refuses. . It's a lonely sport because you're out there for hours every day shooting by yourself. Swedish Dutch But this struck me very deeply that we're training kids from the beginning, from minute one of absorbing popular culture, that women and girls are not as important as men and boys, and they're not as valuable to our society as men and boys. It ultimately all worked out for me, but the likelihood of becoming a famous model was actually pretty slim, and I didn't. but like a place where we actually want to live So I decided I wanted to take up a sport in the real-life way and not the movie version. And, you know, the growing movement against Keystone XL, but, frankly, all of the tar sands pipelines, is really starting to resonate right there in the electoral cycle. DAVIS: Well, the bigger part was the (laughter) - that Sydney liked my audition. Geena Davis is also an executive producer of the film. . 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. When, for instance, in 2017 I think, female-led films made 38 percent more money at the Box Office than male-led films. GROSS: This is FRESH AIR. 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