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This week on The Richard Crouse Show Podcast \u201cThe Assistant\u201d director Kitty Green stops by. The film is a re-creation of a day in the life of Jane, played by \u201cOzark\u201d star Julia Garner, an assistant to a Weinstein-esque figure at the height of his power.\n\nGreen is an award-winning Australian filmmaker. Her debut documentary feature, \u201cUkraine Is Not a Brothel,\u201d explored a provocative feminist movement in Ukraine. After making its premiere at the Venice Film Festival in 2013, the film screened at more than 50 film festivals internationally and won the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) Award for Best Feature Length Documentary. Green\u2019s follow-up project, \u201cThe Face of Ukraine: Casting Oksana Baiul,\u201d won the Short Film Jury Prize for nonfiction at the Sundance Film Festival. Her latest feature documentary, \u201cCasting JonBenet,\u201d was acquired as a Netflix Original, premiered at Sundance in 2017, and screened at the Berlinale before receiving the AACTA Award for Best Feature Length Documentary.