Arrow Films’ Noir label is pleased to confirm that the highly-acclaimed Irish TV-drama Amber will be released on DVD from Monday 30th June 2014 and available on digital download from today (Wednesday 4th June), following it’s BBC transmission.
Following their recent success with international shows such as Salamander, Hinterland and Generation War, Arrow Films will continue to house quality international crime shows from various European territories, with their newly launched sub-label ‘Noir’, a spin-off of the hugely successful Nordic Noir imprint that now incorporates crime series from multiple countries under the wider umbrella Nordic Noir & Beyond.
Having already seen massive success with their Bafta winning series The Bridge, The Killing and Borgen, Arrow Films are thrilled to announce the release of the Irish TV-drama Amber, which begins airing in the UK on BBC 4 this week, the series comes to DVD in the UK on 30th June 2014.
iving in Dublin’s suburbs, Ben and Sarah Bailey are recently separated yet doing their best to get on with their lives while remaining good parents to their children, Amber and Eamon. Then, in one day, their lives are turned upside down when Amber fails to return home one evening.
The disappearance of 14-year-old Amber Bailey sets off a two-year search during which time her family experience unimaginable guilt, fear, and devastating grief as they live out every parent’s worst nightmare.
Investigating the case of the missing teenager from different viewpoints, each episode plays with the chronology of events and focuses on the perspective of one individual connected to the case as first her family, then friends, then complete strangers become drawn into the quest to find out what happened.
As the drama unfolds the audience must answer pivotal questions to unravel the mystery… What are “the daughters of the air”? Who is the prison inmate who claims to know something about Amber? Who has Amber’s phone? And was someone watching Amber online?
An ambitious and powerful story, Amber is an emotional journey filled with psychological insight and unexpected twists as the girl’s disappearance has an impact far greater than anyone could have imagined, imparting the sense of loss, incomprehension and anguish a family feels when a loved one, especially a child, goes missing.
Starring Eva Birthistle (Waking the Dead, Wake Wood), David Murray (Zonad, Raw), Lauryn Canny (A Thousand Times Goodnight), Levi O’Sullivan, Justine Mitchell
Executive Producers:Jane Gogan & David Crean
Director:Thaddeus O’Sullivan (IFTA winner – Single Handed, Into the Storm, Stella Days)
Writers:Rob Cawley & Gary Duggan
Produced and Created by: Rob Cawley & Paul Duane (Secret Diary of a Call Girl)