This Changes Everything (2018) on Netflix
TV-PG20181h 36mDocumentary
Actresses and women filmmakers describe the sexism they have met in Hollywood. Maria Giese, an activist since 2014, helped bring about inquiries by the ACLU and federal investigators.
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- Netflix4.1/5
- IMDb7.7/101,964 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes88%
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A documentary examination of sexism in Hollywood, built from interviews with actresses and women filmmakers who describe their own working lives in the industry. Maria Giese, a feminist activist in Hollywood since 2014, wrote in Ms. magazine that entertainment offends Title VII anti-discrimination employment law more than any other American industry does. She was a key force behind the ACLU and federal investigations, and she regards Time's Up, an effort launched within the Hollywood establishment to confront harassment and assault at work, with a skeptical eye, reading it as one of several collegial moves meant to keep legal action and government oversight at bay. Those threats, in her account, pushed studios, networks and agencies to change after decades of denial.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about This Changes Everything (2018)
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- Maria Giese, a film director featured in the documentary, was a key instigator of the ACLU and federal investigations into Hollywood, and in a 2014 Ms. magazine article called entertainment the worst offender of Title VII employment anti-discrimination laws of any U.S. industry.
- On October 27, 2019, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences gave Geena Davis the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award for the work profiled in This Changes Everything, and gave a Life Achievement Award to Lina Wertmuller, whom the film names as the director who inspired Maria Giese to become a filmmaker.
- This Changes Everything got multiple standing ovations at its Toronto International Film Festival premiere and became only the second documentary ever shown in Toronto's 2600-seat Roy Thomson Hall.
