Julie Cohen | A New York smoked fish shop, the Notorious RBG and refusing to buy a guitar for an inmate

Julie Cohen is an Oscar nominated and Emmy award-winning director. Julie is best known for a feature film she co-directed with Betsy West called RBG about Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg which premiered at Sundance in 2018 and had an all-female crew. Julie also directed 'The Sturgeon Queens', a feature film about a famous smoked fish shop called 'Russ & Daughters' in New York. Prior to this Julie was a producer at NBC Dateline.

Show Notes

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Episode credits

Hosted and produced by Shaunagh Connaire and edited by Ryan Ferguson.

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