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Bord Scannán na hÉireann/The Irish Film Board present a MDV / Warrior Films production in association with Element Pictures, Windmill Lane Pictures and Filmbase Dublin Oldschool Directed by Dave Tynan Starring Emmet Kirwan, Ian Lloyd Anderson, Sarah Greene, Seána Kerslake, Liam Heslin, Ciaran Grace, Stephen Jones, Mark O’Halloran, Leah Minto Ireland – 94 mins - 2018 Publicity Nell Roddy +353 1 6185032 [email protected] TABLE OF CONTENTS 3 Logline & Synopsis 4 Synopsis (Long) 5 Key Crew & Principal Cast List 6 Director & Co-Writer: Dave Tynan 7 Co-Writer & Lead Actor: Emmet Kirwan 8 Selected Filmography: Dave Tynan 9 The Producers 10 Key Crew Biographies 14 Dublin Oldschool - The Play 15 Adapting Dublin Oldschool For Screen 16 The Cast of Dublin Oldschool 17 Shooting Style 18 Music 19 Dublin 21 Cast Biographies 25 Company Profiles 27 Credits 2 Logline Over a drug-fuelled weekend in Dublin, Jason reconnects with his estranged brother, a recovering addict living on the streets. Synopsis Join Jason, a wannabe DJ, on a drug-fuelled trip through the streets of Dublin as he stumbles from one session to another. Somewhere between the DJs, decks, and drug busts he stumbles across a familiar face from the past, his brother Daniel. Daniel, an educated heroin addict, is living on the streets of Dublin. The brothers haven’t seen or spoken to each other in years but over a lost weekend they reconnect and reminisce over raves, tunes and their troubled past. Two brothers living very different lives might have more in common than they think. 3 Synopsis (Long) Dublin Oldschool tells the story of Jason, a wannabe DJ, who’s trying to play a set over a lost bank holiday weekend in Dublin. Jason is determined to prove himself as a DJ but he's not trusted by Bates, his record store boss. Bates offers Jason a chance to play a set at an upcoming rave on Sunday but only if he looks after two visiting London DJs. Heading into town he stumbles across a familiar face from the past. Unbeknownst to Jason, his brother Daniel, a recovering heroin addict, is back from England and living on the streets of Dublin. They haven’t seen or spoken to each other years. After a tense exchange Jason leaves Daniel on the street. Jason, promised a warm-up set on Friday night, shows up too wrecked on ketamine to play. The next day, while his mates keep the session going, Jason is tasked with putting on an after party for visiting London DJs. As the weekend progresses the brothers keep running into each other. While Jason’s drug use intensifies from session to session, Daniel is increasingly more lucid. They argue, reconnect and reminisce over raves, tunes and their troubled past. Daniel wants to go back to their mother’s while he gets clean but he can’t convince Jason who harbours a secret: their mother passed away while Daniel was away in England. Jason sees Daniel on Sunday morning and after a long fight tells Daniel that their mother is dead, Daniel, distraught is furious at his brother and tells him he is one weekend away from where he began. The weekend culminates with Jason finally playing a set at a huge rave in Wicklow. Afterwards he succumbs to all the chemicals in his system and collapses. He retreats into his subconscious and has visions of himself and Daniel at home as children. Hurrying back to Dublin, he urgently searches for his brother. 4 KEY Crew List Directed by Dave Tynan Written by Emmet Kirwan Dave Tynan Produced by Dave Leahy Michael Donnelly V Executive Producers Lesley McKimm Rory Gilmartin Director of Photography JJ Rolfe Production Designer Mark Kelly Editor John O’Connor Costume Designer Sarajane Ffrench O'Carroll Casting Director Louise Kiely Line Producer Ailish Bracken Principal Cast List Jason Emmet Kirwan Daniel Ian Lloyd Anderson Lisa Sarah Greene Gemma Séana Kerslake Dave the Rave Liam Heslin Glen Ciaran Grace Bobby Stephen Jones Bates Mark O'Halloran Aisling Leah Minto 5 DIRECTOR & CO-WRITER Dave Tynan is a writer/director from Dublin. He attended the National Film School at IADT and the MA in Filmmaking in Goldsmiths. In 2012 “Just Saying” was viewed over 250,000 times in the first week of it going online. It has since been seen over 500,000 times. In 2013 he won the Kinsale Shark for Most Promising Irish Director. His Irish Film Board short “Rockmount” won the 2015 IFTA for Best Short Film, and numerous other awards including Tiernan MacBride Best Short Drama at the Galway Film Fleadh, the Audience Award at the Kerry Film Festival, Best in Cork at Fastnet Film Festival and two Kinsale Sharks. His short film “Heartbreak” was a viral success, being watched over 1 million times going on to win an IFTA in 2017. Both Rockmount and Heartbreak were selected for Les Nuits En Or by the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma, in 2016 and 2018. Dublin Oldschool is his feature film debut. 6 CO-WRITER & LEAD ACTOR Emmet Kirwan is an award winning actor, playwright, poet and voiceover artist from Tallaght in Dublin. He studied acting and theatre studies at the Samuel Beckett Centre Trinity College Dublin. For over 15 years Emmet has been a respected and leading performer in Irish Theatre performing many times on the The Abbey, The Gate, Olympia and Bord Gàis stages as well as working with leading theatre companies such as Rough Magic, Fishamble, This is Pop Baby, Guna Nua, Pan Pan, Corn Exchange and Barabas. Most recently Emmet wrote and starred in ThisIsPopBaby’s sell out award winning show RIOT. Emmet received rave reviews for his politically charged performance poetry and was nominated for a best performer award. The short film “Heartbreak”, one of four poems Emmet performed in RIOT, was adapted to a short film which went on to be viewed over 1 million times and won an IFTA in 2017. He has worked extensively on Irish television and film appearing in many films as well as leading roles in home grown Irish series from the Big Bow Wow and Legend (RTE) and Jack Taylor (TV3). He also appeared in Irish films Inside I’m dancing directed by Damien O’Donnell and Paul Mercier’s film Pursuit, also The Take for Sky 1 and 71 for film 4. As a writer Emmet's play Dublin Oldschool won the prestigious Stewart Parker Major trust award. It opened to a series of five star reviews from Sunday Times, the Evening Herald, The Edinburgh Reporter and Fest magazine. It has finished 3 sellout runs in Dublin and most recently finished 2nd in Fest magazines top 5 Edinburgh fringe theatre shows. In January 2017 it transferred to The National theatre of Britain in London and The Lyric theatre Belfast. It was nominated for the first forthright award and Bewley’s little gem award. Emmet was awarded best performer at the Tiger Dublin Fringe awards in 2014. Emmet is most widely known for writing and starring in the RTE 2 comedy series Sarah and Steve for Accomplice television and appearing in the viral poetry short film “Just Saying. 7 SELECTED Filmography: Dave Tynan 2017 Heartbreak 7 Minutes Directed by Dave Tynan Written by Emmet Kirwan The story of a young schoolgirl from teenage pregnancy to raising her son in modern Ireland. WINNER - BEST SHORT DRAMA - IFTA 2017 2016 The Cherishing 15 Minutes Written and Directed by Dave Tynan When The Rising starts the local sweet shops are the first to be looted by Dubliners living in the tenements. Noel and Tom race off and leave their mothers and sisters at home but the havoc of the next few days will come right to everyone’s door. 2014 Rockmount 13 Minutes Written and Directed by Dave Tynan 1982, Cork. Roy is 11, small and sure he's going to get on his club's starting team. Even if no one else is. WINNER - BEST SHORT DRAMA - IFTA 2015 WINNER - BEST SHORT DRAMA - GALWAY FILM FLEADH 2014 2012 Just Saying 5 Minutes Written and Directed by Dave Tynan A short film about a man in Dublin, adapted from a monologue by Dave Tynan. 8 THE Producers Dave Leahy Dave is Producer / Owner of Warrior Films Dave produced the Irish Film Board funded feature documentary "Hill Street" which sold in multiple territories including Netflix. Dave also produced several RTE and Irish Film Board funded short films which have screened and sold internationally. Dave produced the Irish Film Board Funded After '16 Project "The Cherishing" which premiered at ADIFF 2016. Dave has completed development of the Feature project "The Ropes" with the Irish Film Board in 2017. 9 MiCHAEL Donnelly V Mike produced a documentary for his grad film which won in Galway, Cork and Belfast. Mike setup and ran TID/\L (a commercial production company and innovator) for two years along with Rebecca Bourke and Stevie Russell. Mike has produced lots and lots of music videos including Kodaline - All I Want, which won a UKMVA and Kodaline - High Hopes, which won a Kinsale Shark. The two videos have fifty million views between them. Mike’s first Kinsale Shark Award was for a web series called The Taste of Home. Written and performed by Diet of Worms, the series was the genesis for The Walshes, which Graham Linehan directed for The BBC. Mike produced Rockmount as part of the IFB Signatures scheme. It went on to win the 2015 IFTA for Best Short Drama. He also produced and edited Heartbreak which won the IFTA for Best Short Drama in 2017.