After a five-week shoot in Ireland, David Freyne’s new comedy, Dating Amber [+lee también:
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The story of Dating Amber, penned in its entirety by the helmer himself, centres on two closeted teenagers in mid-1990s Ireland, called Eddie and Amber (both aged 17), who decide to stage a relationship in order to stop everyone speculating about their sexuality. Eddie is keen to follow his dad into the military, while Amber dreams of moving to the liberal hub of London. However, their initial arrangement begins to fall apart, forcing Eddie deeper into denial as Amber realises that a perilous future awaits her best friend unless she intervenes.

The two lead characters are being played by young talents Fionn O’Shea, best known for playing Ned Roche in John Butler’s Handsome Devil [+lee también:
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Dating Amber received development and production support from Screen Ireland, the country’s main film agency. The feature is being produced by Rachel O’Kane and John Keville (The Hole in the Ground [+lee también:
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