this changes everything documentary transcript

They're both featured in the new documentary "This Changes Everything," about the campaign for more representation of women in front of and behind the camera in movies and TV. So I never tried anything. Didnt seem to happen. Can we play that? 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. DONAHUE: I started the film a year before I actually asked Geena to come on board. Look at what FX did. I did get work, and it was through my model agency that I got my first acting job. - Things have changed, everything's changed. 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. This Changes Everything encompasses a massive subject from a variety of angles in a brief amount of time, and the results can feel a bit choppy. 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. MARTIN: Why do you think that was the click moment for you? Russian GROSS: Well, what was wrong with that plan? He could hardly have timed it . 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. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. But I loved it. This Changes Everythings choppy, frenetic approach to editing makes for an uneven rhetorical texture. 2019 | Maturity Rating: 13+ | 1h 35m | Documentary Films. Along with many others who spoke to Everythings director Tom Donahue (who also made the docs Casting By andThank You for Your Service), like Natalie Portman and Chloe Grace Moretz, Davis talks without self-pity about feeling objectified by the filmmaking process. So you started your career as a model. 0000005443 00000 n MARTIN: So the title of the film, we start with that, This Changes Everything. This is something that you say in the film. I want to ask you about "Thelma & Louise." We should be showing kids that boys and girls share the same bicycle. Danish DAVIS: I think partly, back when I started, I wasnt thinking about that, even. DAVIS: Well, so my character - they told me from the beginning - was a former showgirl who, when she was getting too old to do that, went into management and was able to create a successful career for herself that way. Since then it has been shown 1000s of times in community screenings around the world. After a break, I'll talk more with Geena Davis about her movie career, and Bruce Talamon will talk about taking photos of soul, funk and R&B stars of the '70s. 0000006562 00000 n This was my plan (laughter). And I couldn't get the numbers on women in commercials, which is the most lucrative category of directing, but I spoke to some big executives in the commercial world who told me that the number was less than 1%. And I could see that I was not going to make any headway with them. And it was just, you know, doing a video with a casting assistant. And Julie Dash eloquently expresses one of the many reasons it matters to have a woman at the helm: Our camera placement is different because our gaze is different.'. So I thats when I learned about the work of Geena in her institute and how important onscreen representation was. And then I had to play the best baseball player anyone has ever seen hold a bat. 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. 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 . I mean you know. None of this information is new, and its been a dismaying trend for decades. 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. So its kind of working. And that, for me, became a battle worth fighting for. Young Queen Charlotte's marriage to King George of England sparks an epic love story and transforms high society in this "Bridgerton" universe prequel. There are problem areas in terms of style as well as content. 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. In the directors guild, there were only two women I think up until the 1960s who were members of the union. MORETZ: The biggest part of the movie is when she gets her period for the first time in the shower. And so that was really fun. DAVIS: Well, the bigger part was the (laughter) - that Sydney liked my audition. Featuring a strong, eclectic and impressively starry roster of women working in front of and behind the camera, This Changes Everything offers up a handy-dandy, quickfire history lesson that points out how, for generations, sexism and prejudice in the entertainment industry has shut out and silenced filmmakers who arent straight white men. 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. watch "This Changes Everything" streaming on Netflix, Hoopla, Netflix basic with Ads. Which is why none of them appeared in this film? . DAVIS: Well, I was astounded that it happened. This documentary takes a deep look at gender disparity in Hollywood through the eyes of well-known actresses and female filmmakers. Nobody was going into this thinking, oh, we're going to really make a statement with this, or this is going to be a powerful message for anybody. Did you think of it as there not being enough roles for women in their 40s? It sets the most important crisis in human history in the context of our other ongoing traumas, reminding us just how much the powers-that-be depend on the power of coal, gas and oil. With Reese Witherspoon, Mira Nair, Shonda Rhimes, Tracee Ellis Ross. And I was like, you know, I was a huge fan of "GLOW" and very much wanted to do it. :{v^ L @";+Z\\UrcK+IK6z3uI+1| x;B The authoritative record of NPRs programming is the audio record. . 0000043976 00000 n So there's no way for us to really know where the investigation is, even though it's now, oh - what? 0000043924 00000 n What have they each done? DAVIS: Well, it was completely random in some ways. This Changes Everything (2019) Watch Now . Catalan 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). Its always been that way. Polish UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There is nothing funny here. . In This Changes Everything, Naomi Klein explores the issue of climate change from a political perspective and considers why we have failed as yet to respond to the global danger it poses. GROSS: So the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media has done a lot of research on the numbers. Watch all you want. - It didn't change anything. MARIA GIESE: My first feature film directing job out of graduate film school was in England, not in the United States. DAVIS: It did well. 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. . MARTIN: Every person that Ive spoken with who have seen the film is just shocked by it. Is that why because no studio heads appeared in this film because theyre so embarrassed? But thats what we were worried about. He's just decided that that's what he's going to do. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. Indeed, Wonder Womans director Patty Jenkins is one of the many voices heard here. And she doesnt know its her period because she had never been taught that by her mother. 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. 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. GROSS: So part of your work was modeling for Victoria's Secret. Chinese Complex Certainly, this facet is germane to telling the full story, but its dry and not as visually or emotionally arresting as the rest of the film. Geena Davis talks about what inspired "This Changes Everything," a documentary about women in film.Subscribe: https://bit.ly/2HFUeAKWebsite: https://kellyand. Runtime. So here was my hero calling himself a feminist. Greek If she can see it, she can be it. Terms Privacy Policy For Our Members Access, All rights reserved. . 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. I never got another paying job. Maleeha Lodhi joins the program to explain tensions between Pakistan and India. DONAHUE: Well, because they even if its unconscious, theyre still embarrassed and I think their legal departments also said, dont go on the record about this. GIESE: Well, I understood very quickly that the numbers in and of themselves inferred violations of Title VII. I think the big advantage was that people who make kids entertainment do it because they care about kids. Actress Geena Davis rallies Meryl Streep, Shonda Rhimes, Reese Witherspoon and others in this powerful . What if confronting the climate crisis is the best chance we'll ever get to build a better world? By the end, it feels like This Changes Everything is just that little bit too much behind the curve of history, despite the boo and hiss-prompting appearances from President Donald Trump and footage of the Womens March. She had to fight really hard to get them to put it on the air. Finnish And I learned that he was he called himself a feminist. 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.

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