A development girl or D-girl is a derogatory Hollywood slang term for non-influential, entry-level staff members 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 job title is gender neutral – according to Los Angeles Times, approximately a quarter of D-girls are men.
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- "What's a 'D-Girl,' Anyway?". Newsweek. 4 August 2009.
- McDonnell, Anna (23 August 1987). "D -Girls : The Women Behind the Scripts". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 9 December 2017.
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