Following sell out opening night premieres at the Adelaide Film Festival and SXSW Sydney, Kitty Green will present two Q&A screenings of her highly anticipated thriller The Royal Hotel in Melbourne on November 8 and 9.
Directed by Kitty Green (The Assistant, Casting JonBenet), co-written by Kitty Green and Oscar Redding (Van Diemen’s Land) and starring Julia Garner, Jessica Henwick, Hugo Weaving and Toby Wallace, The Royal Hotel will open in cinemas across Australia from November 23.
The Royal Hotel is a Transmission Films release.
The cinema release follows high profile premieres at Telluride, Toronto and London Film Festivals where early reviews have heaped praise on Kitty and her cast.
Synopsis: Americans Hanna (Garner) and Liv (Henwick) 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 (Hugo Weaving) 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.
The Royal Hotel is produced by Emile Sherman and Iain Canning of See-Saw Films, the Academy and BAFTA Award winning team behind The Power of the Dog, Lion and The King’s Speech, together with Animal Kingdom and The King producer and See-Saw Films’ Head of Film and Television (Aus) Liz Watts, and Scarlett Pictures’ Kath Shelper.
Q&A Screenings:
Wed 8 Nov – PALACE KINO – 6:30pm
Ticket link – https://buy.palacecinemas.com.au/?cinema=300&session=233651
Thurs 9 Nov – CINEMA NOVA – 6:30pm
Ticket link – https://www.cinemanova.com.au/films/royal-hotel-the
