Charles, Regal Gravois Bluffs and Ronnie's. It shows only Monday, July 22, at select theaters, such as St. 'This Changes Everything' is distributed by Phantom Events. Those data include applying the Bechtel test with this criterion: Two women have to have a conversation in a film, but it cannot be about men.Īs director Maria Giese said, 'Women's input was not making it into the national narrative.' The documentary highlights the lawsuit brought by the ACLU and invoking Title 7, which refers to purposeful discrimination.ĭirector Tom Donahue balanced famous women – Reese Witherspoon, Cate Blanchett, Natalie Portman – with the less well known, the erased, the equally angry. Not until actor Geena Davis founded her Children's Media Study in 2004 and started tracking data did women have the 'magic bullet' to prove that men had been systematically erasing them from jobs at every level. Historically, the vast majority of writers were women at the start. It's not just simply because the film industry is an old boys' network. The top-grossing films of 2017 showed men with twice as much screen time as women had. For example, of the Top 100 films of 2018, 85% were written by males. At one point in the powerful and fascinating new documentary This Changes Everything, executive producer and Oscar-winning actress Geena Davis explains the film’s title. Why they have trouble with funding, distributing, and reviewing. Filmed over 211 shoot days in nine countries and five continents over four years, THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING is an epic attempt to re-imagine the vast challenge of climate change. This remarkable investigative documentary film explains why movies – national and international – are rarely directed by women, why women rarely star or are writers or even costumers. 2015 Directed by Avi Lewis Synopsis Based on Naomi Klein’s book This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. Chicago International Film Festival 2018 Nominee Gold Hugo: Best Documentary. A film like 'Thelma and Louise.' 'This changes everything,' the film establishment and the media declared. That sentence has been declared every time a film with women, about women, and by women succeeds in Hollywood.

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