
The film had its premiere on 700+ screens via Fathom Releasing on July 22, 2019, followed by a limited theatrical release on August 9, 2019. On January 17, 2019, Deadline Hollywood announced that the film's theatrical, streaming, and broadcast rights for North America had been acquired by Good Deed Entertainment, and that the film would be released theatrically in the first half of 2019. It stars Reese Witherspoon, Mira Nair, and Shonda Rhimes. The film explores the issues surrounding gender inequality in Hollywood and has since screened in over 20 film festivals in North America and Europe. The film was created in association with Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, Artemis Rising Foundation, David Yurman and Lyft Entertainment. The film received multiple standing ovations and was only the second documentary to be shown in Toronto's iconic 2600-seat Roy Thomson Hall. The film premiered at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival.

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". 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.

magazine in which she observed that entertainment is the worst offender of Title VII employment anti-discrimination laws of any U.S.
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įeatured 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. 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. This Changes Everything is a 2018 American documentary film, directed by Tom Donahue.
