Award-Winner Peacefire Set For IFI

There's to be an exclusive chance to see a gritty, moving and bitterly funny account of one young man's experience of 'crime and punishment' on a housing estate in 1990s Northern Ireland.
Peacefire, the feature debut of Writer-Director Macdara Vallely, is to be screened as part of The Irish Film institute (IFI) 'Ireland on Sunday' feature - a monthly programme of screenings which showcases new fiction and documentary works and provides a space for audiences to engage with the filmmakers.
The Producer of Peacefire Chris Martin will be in attendence for a post-screening Q&A session.
This is a rare chance for Dublin audiences to see this evocative drama; a deserved winner of the Best First Feature Award at the Galway Film Fleadh in 2008.
A young working class, joy-riding hoodlum has a chance encounter with a ruthless detective who turns him into an informer and a target for retribution by his father's old acquaintances in the IRA.
In the violent upheaval that follows, he must struggle with the intense loyalty he feels for his friends; the need to protect his mother from her tragic past; and the political ideals of a dead father.
Vallely was keen to infuse the film with an authentic vision of Northern Ireland and the film was shot in his hometown of Craigavon with a broadly local cast that includes former IRA men.
Capturing the authentic feel of the town was not without its problems however as a nearby dissident shooting and subsequent investigation led to rioting and several of the production team were held by police before being released without charge.
Vallely commented on the arrests: "That's the north of Ireland for you, at a certain point life and art become almost totally indistinguishable."
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