Universal Is the First Big Studio to Sign the Female-Director Challenge
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Universal Pictures, part of Comcast Corp., became the first major movie studio to commit to the “4% Challenge,” a bid to rectify the lack of female directors in Hollywood.
As part of the campaign, which refers to the percentage of films directed by women over the past decade, the studio said it plans to work with at least one female director on a feature film in the next 18 months. The challenge was kicked off at the Sundance Film Festival this year by producer Nina Jacobson and director Paul Feig, among others.