Director Kitty Green on her new film, 'The Assistant'

Australian writer/director Kitty Green's new film The Assistant presents a day in the life of a female assistant to a powerful executive. It is a work of fiction, but its portrayal of insidious office relationships and workplace power imbalances is very much a product of the #MeToo age. Starring Julia Garner (who won an Emmy for playing Ruth Langmore in the Netflix series Ozark) and Matthew Macfadyen (Frost/Nixon, Pride and Prejudice and Tom Wambsgans in the acclaimed HBO series Succession) the film was released in New Zealand on Thursday 28 May. Green's previous documentaries include Casting JonBenét (2017) and Ukraine Is Not a Brothel (2013).