‘Royal Hotel’ Director Kitty Green On Seeing The Australian Outback Through A Female Lens — TIFF Studio

ROYAL HOTEL

Section: Gala Presentations

Director: Kitty Green

Screenwriter: Oscar Redding, Kitty Green

Logline: Two American girls (Julia Garner and Jessica Henwick) run out of cash while backpacking around Australia. To get home, they take a job in a rowdy pub in a remote mining town.

International Sales Agent: HanWay Films

Panelists: Kitty Green (director)

First Screening: Sept. 12, 2023.

Key Quote: “I’m Australian, but I’d never made a movie in Australia. I wanted to, and my mother was keen that I came back home for a bit, so I was looking for something I could do there. I found a documentary about two Scandinavian women who were working in an outback pub, and I thought it was kind of interesting. I hadn’t seen that point of view before. I had seen a lot of films about the Outback, but never through a female lens. So I thought, ‘That’s an interesting kind of jumping off point for a screenplay,’ and I started writing.” — Kitty Green  

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