Description:  At last month’s Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, some film financiers met for nachos at the Wasatch Brew Pub to toast their comedy, Ass Backwards—a Dumb and Dumber-esque tale of two women who enter a beauty pageant. Dori Sperko, who’d been dabbling in Hollywood funding since selling her Florida-based payroll services company several years ago, told the table about three films she’d considered investing in that morning. “I automatically passed on the movie with the woman producer team attached,” she said. “I just feel like you can’t trust women you don’t know, but you can trust a man.” Sperko shrugged and sipped her cocktail. “It is what it is.”

Source:  Businessweek.com

Date: Feb 21, 2013

Link: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-02-21/why-women-in-hollywood-cant-get-film-financing#r=nav-f-story

Questions for Discussions:

• What does this report say about the risk-perception of women as managers?
• Do you think this is a cultural “thing” that can be turned around?
• How does this thinking affect the operations of the industry?