It’s a time of people really speaking up and sharing their truth and a dramatic change in Hollywood,” Davis says. Henson, Natalie Portman, Paul Feig, Judd Apatow, Tracee Ellis Ross, Mara Brock Akil, Sandra Oh Shonda Rhimes, John Landgraf and Kevin Huvane, in addition to Davis, to name a few.)
(“This Changes Everything” features interviews with Callie Khouri, Kimberly Peirce, Sharon Stone, Amber Tamblyn, Rose McGowen, Amandla Stenberg, Chloe Grace Moretz, Taraji P. It was the emergence of the #MeToo and Time’s Up movements that further aided in attaching many big names to the project. “I don’t think anybody at all hesitated because it was a man doing this they could see what he was doing,” Davis says. The irony of a man making a film about the importance, but lack, of women getting important industry gigs such as directing was not lost on either of them, but it mattered most that somebody was finally willing to dive deeply into the topic. Interestingly, Davis shares that Donahue was the first person to approach her about such a project. I tried to be as active as I could and as he needed me to be,” she says. “My institute provided the research that was in the film and I tried to help get him interviews with people he was interested in talking to. She was able to see some of what he wanted the narrative to be, and “it was right up my alley,” so she signed on as an executive producer and also agreed to sit down for one of the interviews for the piece. She recalls that he had already raised all of the funding and had acquired a number of interviews “with powerful people” before she came aboard. Davis, who originally was inspired to start her institute because she wanted her children to grow up in a world were they all saw themselves well-reflected on screen, came to the doc by way of Donahue himself.
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