Dublin Oldschool is director Dave Tynana and co-writer Emmet Kirwan;s nostalgia filled ode to the capital that takes place over a drug-fulled bank holiday weekend.
The film, which is based on Kirwan's play, tells the story of two estranged brothers and their battles with addiction, and the younger's quest to find meaning in mind-altering drugs and music.
CinÉireann sat down to talk about it with producer Dave Leahy.
CineÉ: How long did it take to put it all together?
Dave Leahy: It was a year and a half up until we shot, but it was a lot of work. It's big and it was our first big one. It's ambitious, there's lots of locations, and lots of cast. There are 9 principles. And then there's some massive set-pieces like the rave and the house party at the posh gaff, as we call it. We tried to have it really faithful to the script, but it was a lot of work.
You used a lot of the city centre as well so that must have added additional pressure that you had to manage.
That was down to Sean Flynn, our locations guy. Shooting on the North Lotts and other places. There's one scene, it's the longest scene with the two brothers, where we went up there for the day and there was some sort of big delivery situation. It was just seagulls and vans and some of the locals shouting and kids. And there was a bit of intermittent showers so it was kind of like...not guerrilla as it was done properly...but there was a lot of different moving parts. A lot of out on the streets and a lot of big crowds behind the camera. In the final scene between the two brothers in the alley way there was somebody shouting out the window
The feel good trip of the summer Producer Dave Leahy talks us through Dublin Oldschool
Words: Niall Murphy
38 CinÉireann / June 2018