This Changes Everything (2018)

Directed by

Tom Donahue

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 37m

Rated

PG

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 42 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary interviews actresses and women filmmakers about sexism in Hollywood. It examines how the industry has excluded women and what efforts are being made to address the problem.

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What happens

This Changes Everything is a 2018 American documentary film, directed by Tom Donahue. An examination of sexism in the Hollywood film industry, the film interviews a variety of actresses and women filmmakers on their experiences in the industry. Featured in the movie is "film director Maria Giese, who was a key instigator of the ACLU and federal investigations, has been a feminist activist in Hollywood since 2014, when she wrote an explosive article for Ms. magazine in which she observed that entertainment is the worst offender of Title VII employment anti-discrimination laws of any U.S. industry. She casts a somewhat jaundiced eye on enterprises like Time's Up, which was created within the Hollywood establishment to address workplace sexual harassment and assault, observing that it's one of several collegial, inside-industry efforts undertaken to avoid legal action and government oversight. Those threats have served as a sort of twin sword of Damocles, forcing studios, networks and agencies to do the right thing after decades of denying there was a problem". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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