Film & Television
Meet the Creators of The Royal Hotel
Featuring Producers Liz Watts and Kath Shelper, Writer/Director Kitty Green, Co-Writer Oscar Redding and Composer and Sound Designer Jed Palmer
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Join us for an exclusive discussion with the dream team behind THE ROYAL HOTEL and hear from some of the key players who brought this powerful story to life. Featuring Producers Liz Watts and Kath Shelper, Writer/Director Kitty Green, Co-Writer Oscar Redding and Composer and Sound Designer Jed Palmer.
Americans Hanna and Liv are best friends backpacking in Australia. After they run out of money, Liv, looking for an adventure, convinces Hanna to take a temporary live-in job behind the bar of a pub called ’The Royal Hotel’ in a remote Outback mining town. Bar owner Billy and a host of locals give the girls a riotous introduction to Down Under drinking culture but soon Hanna and Liv find themselves trapped in an unnerving situation that grows rapidly out of their control.
Directed by AACTA nominee Kitty Green (THE ASSISTANT, CASTING JON BENET) and produced by Liz Watts, Emile Sherman, Iain Canning of See Saw Films (THE KING'S SPEECH, THE POWER OF THE DOG, LION), and Kath Shelper of Scarlett Pictures (THE NEW BOY), this is a rare opportunity to go behind the scenes of one of the most talked-about films of the year. As The Observer UK recently said- Australian director Kitty Green follows the skin-crawling psychological torture of 2019’s The Assistant with the brilliant, nerve-shredding The Royal Hotel, cementing her status as one of the very best in the game at showing a woman’s eye view of a male-dominated world.
Friday, 9 February 2024
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