DUB
DAZE

Dublin, summer of 2018. The sun's out, the Leaving Cert is done, and nobody has anywhere they need to be. Across three corners of the city, on the northside, the southside, and right through the guts of the centre, a scattered crew of teenagers and twentysomethings drift through one long, loose, electric summer. Chippers and canal banks. GAA pitches and house parties. First kisses, bad decisions, borrowed cars, and the kind of nights that only make sense in hindsight.

DUB DAZE is Dazed and Confused for the Liffey generation, shot through with the chancer's swagger of The Young Offenders and the music-soaked heart of Sing Street. Three storylines run side by side and never quite touch, until they do, building a mosaic of a city that's funnier, scrappier, and more alive than anything you've seen Dublin look like on screen.

Shane Robinson, Sam Lucas Smith and Leah Moore lead an ensemble of fresh faces who feel less like actors and more like the people you actually grew up with. The whole thing is scored wall to wall by Brame & Hamo, Bantum, Scary Eire and more, a soundtrack pulled straight off the floors of Dublin's gig venues and bedroom studios, real Irish music for a real Irish summer.

Shot over ten months on the actual streets, pubs, and flats of Dublin, DUB DAZE sits in the lineage of Adam & Paul and The Commitments, a new chapter in Dublin's long love affair with telling its own stories on its own streets.

Directed by Shane J. Collins. A Story Creative Artists production.