The Irish skateboarding documentary ‘Hill Street’ and the tense banking drama ‘The Guarantee’ are now available to view on Netflix in Ireland and the UK.
‘Hill Street’ and ‘The Guarantee’ are the latest Wildcard titles to become available on Netflix in Ireland and the UK joining the award-winning documentary ‘The Summit’ and feel good quirky comedies ‘Life’s A Breeze’ starring Pat Shortt and Fionnula Flanagan, ‘Gold’ starring David Wilmot, Kerry Condon, Maisie Williams and James Nesbitt and ‘Standby’ starring Brian Gleeson and Jessica Paré.
Directed by J.J. Rolfe ('Hardy Bucks', 'The Hard Way') and produced by Dave Leahy ('The Formorian', 'Fifth Street') for Warrior Films, ‘Hill Street’ features the story of a Dublin businessman credited with building the Dublin skate scene from a grassroots level. Clive Rowen acted as a driving force behind the city's burgeoning skate scene in the late 1980's, from building makeshift ramps in his own Dublin skate shop to eventually seeing the city host a leg of the European Skate Championships in 1991.
Meanwhile the IFTA-nominated feature ‘The Guarantee’ recreates the drama surrounding the most significant political decision in modern Irish history; when the Irish government decided to guarantee the entire domestic banking system. Starring Peter Coonan and Gary Lydon as Anglo Irish Bank Chief Executive David Drumm and Taoiseach Brian Cowen respectively, with David Murray and Morgan C. Jones also starring as Finance Minister Brian Lenihan and Anglo Chairman Sean Fitzpatrick, the film charts the origins of that pivotal decision and follows developments through the peak of the boom to the beginning of the bust. The film is directed by Ian Power and produced by John Kelleher.