![]() ![]() That would be far too easy and redundant of a film, so instead Donahue amasses a wide array of speakers to talk about the less obvious issues in play, ongoing legal matters, more blatant and open practices of discrimination, and the myriad of reasons why representation matters. This Changes Everything (which shouldn’t be confused with Naomi Klein’s documentary from 2015) isn’t keen on reminding people that women in Hollywood are paid significantly less than their male counterparts – both in front of and behind the camera – nor doesn’t it particularly want to focus solely on the fact that most studio pictures and awards bait are produced by men or how 77% of the critics and tastemakers on Rotten Tomatoes are men. ![]() Since the advent of sound in film, it has been exponentially more difficult to make a go of things as a woman in Hollywood (and also elsewhere in the world), and This Changes Everything doesn’t make many suggestions on how to make amends, but it offers up a great deal of irrefutable evidence to suggest that the more people say things are getting better, the more they stay the same. ‘Progress will happen when men take a stand,’ Streep says in the film.Boasting a wide array of A-list movie stars and behind-the-scenes power players who are willing to talk about gender disparity, discrimination, and sexual harassment in Hollywood, the documentary This Changes Everything comes at a perfect time to make an impact, but if you already know how difficult it is to be a woman in a male dominated industry, director Tom Donahue’s impassioned work won’t offer up much of anything you didn’t already suspect. His commitment signifies that righting the gender gap isn’t a job that falls only to women. His documentary Casting By championed casting directors, an undervalued field dominated by women. “Filmmaker Tom Donahue has a long investment in chronicling Hollywood’s gender bias. Experts deliver stone-cold statistics, little-known Hollywood-history footnotes, and eventually clear-cut steps every man and woman can take to become an agent of change.” - Julie Miller, Vanity Fair “ This Changes Everything connects the many gender-inequality dots corroding Hollywood – including problematic hiring practices, wage gaps, the representation of women on-screen, and the treatment of women offscreen. While they seemed to have been fighting in a vacuum, the support of the public, Davis believes, is now behind the cause.” - Sage Young, Bustle Their stories are juxtaposed against that of the Original Six – a group of women directors who gathered and circulated evidence of gender discrimination at major movie studios in the 80s. ![]() ![]() Davis herself serves as an Executive Producer… Meryl Streep, Yara Shahidi, Cate Blanchett, Natalie Portman, Tiffany Haddish, Sandra Oh, and Tracee Ellis Ross all… on record with their dissatisfaction, and it’s powerful in and of itself to watch them say, one after another, that this is not OK. “ with The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media… the film… paints an impressively full picture of how Hollywood’s gender imbalance is sustained and also how it reverberates throughout the culture. And the fight can’t be fought by women alone. This timely, straight-talking documentary – made by a male director committed to highlighting and disrupting the male gender bias – goes beyond the hashtag movements to remind us that the fight is nothing new and the struggle for parity is far from over. The last few years have been touted as a reckoning for the film industry, with women pushing back against substandard and discriminatory behaviour. First there was #MeToo, then there was #TimesUp. ![]()
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