Development girl
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A development girl or d-girl is a non-influential, entry-level staff member in a film production company. Responsibilities include finding and identifying story ideas worthy of adaptation into a script and writing script coverage for scripts submitted to the production company.
The term is often considered a slur by women in the film and television industries due to its sexist connotations, despite "d-girls" often being men who read through scripts and pass them along the production chain to those in higher positions.[1]
The term has been used for the titles of two episodes of series where the film industry is the focus of the episode; In The Sopranos, the second season episode "D-Girl", and the seventh season Law & Order episode "D-Girl", a special Los Angeles-set two-part episode (with "Turnaround").
References
- ^ Alston, Joshua (4 August 2009). "What's a 'D-Girl,' Anyway?". Newsweek. Retrieved 9 December 2017.
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