There are chilling tales from women directors like Patty Jenkins and Jill Soloway about breaking the glass ceiling in a business that thwarts their success.
Well, at last, thanks to This Changes Everything, it seems like we might finally be getting somewhere. But, to many who have heard time and time again over the past half-decade that time is, indeed, up, it begs the questions: a) what exactly are those pathways, and b) are they truly effective? A slow but sure shift is occurring in Hollywood, and it’s gaining momentum.According to the director, Tom Donahue, the film details “new pathways and solutions” for women in the entertainment industry. This film may or may not change everything, but it is important and it changes something. It’s the chivalry of the 21st century.” – Meryl StreepĪnd bravo to all of these women, who have been courageous enough to speak up and work for much-needed change. “Progress will happen when men take a stand. It’s the chivalry of the 21st century.” So, bravo, Tom Donahue. As Meryl Streep told the New York Times, “Progress will happen when men take a stand. When I discovered this, I thought, okay, now these women have an ally. My first response to this was, “ WTF?!? What a terrible contradiction and missed opportunity!” But then I learned that it was Tom Donahue’s idea from the beginning, and that he approached Davis about it. Many have pointed out that this documentary itself is directed by a man.
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Just like Geena Davis, she started collecting the data… “I started to notice that only 4% of studio features were directed by women, and only 13% of episodic TV shows were,” she tells NPR. Her work has led to “an ongoing EEOC, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, investigation into systemic discrimination against women” (NPR). When she couldn’t get any work, she took it to the directors’ guild and then to the ACLU. Giese felt strongly enough about the injustice she experienced that she became an activist. According to its website, “ Hello Sunshine is on a mission to change the narrative for women.” It has already put out hit shows like “The Morning Show” (a personal favorite!), “Big Little Lies,” and “Little Fires Everywhere,” as well as films, “Gone Girl” and “Wild.” Witherspoon says that after not being able to find any quality roles, in 2016, she started her own media company, Hello Sunshine. Several actresses are interviewed, including Meryl Streep, Sandra Oh, and Reese Witherspoon, as well as female directors, Shonda Rhimes and Maria Giese. The fact that gender inequality exists in our world is widely known, but this film shows how deep it runs specifically in Hollywood. (Familiar story, unfortunately.) So, Davis began collecting data, founding the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media in 2004. Women have been afraid of losing work if they speak up, and most men haven’t seemed to have a problem with a culture that unfairly benefits them. This has been common knowledge in the industry for a very long time, but it’s also been such a deeply entrenched part of the culture that it’s continued on without much examination. The more she looked, the more she saw it everywhere in the media: women don’t get the same respect or opportunities that men do in Hollywood. “This struck me very deeply,” she told NPR, “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…” She was astounded by the incredible gender imbalance in these shows there were simply many more roles for boys than for girls. Geena Davis, an actress you probably know from movies, “Thelma & Louise” and “A League of Their Own,” takes the helm as executive producer.ĭavis says, for her, it all began when she started watching kids’ TV shows with her toddler daughter. This Changes Everything (not to be confused with the 2018 film by the same name about climate change), released in 2019, interviews women in film and television. I recently watched a documentary on Netflix about gender inequality in Hollywood. This Changes Everything can be seen on Netflix.
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