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Macdara Vallely is known for Peacefire (2008), Babygirl (2012) and The Love Bite (2004).
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Apr 20, 2012 · Babygirl is Irish filmmaker Macdara Vallely’s alternatively wistful and funny tale of a sixteen year-old wise-beyond-her-years Bronx girl named Lena (Yainis Ynoa) who defiantly protects her mother (Rosa Arredondo).
Oct 4, 2013 · Set in a vibrant Puerto Rican community in the Bronx, “Babygirl” is a gently knowing coming-of-age tale about the dangers of combining intellectual precociousness with emotional immaturity.
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Macdara Vallely. Director: Peacefire. Macdara Vallely is known for Peacefire (2008), Babygirl (2012) and The Love Bite (2004).
Jan 31, 2014 · IFI Ireland on Sunday Interview: Macdara Vallely, director of ‘Babygirl’. 31st January 2014 11 Mins Read. Niall McKay met director Macdara Vallely to talk about his feature, Babygirl, which screens this weekend as part of Ireland on Sunday, the IFI’s monthly showcase for new Irish film.
Winner of the Best First Feature award at the Galway Film Fleadh 2008, Peacefire, the feature debut of writer-director Macdara Vallely, is 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.
Oct 3, 2013 · Directed by Macdara Vallely, Babygirl follows Lena, a precocious teenager from the Bronx, who is tired of seeing her single mother, Lucy, bounce from man to man. When Victor, a smooth talking younger man, begins to date Lucy, Lena suspects that his true sights are set on her.
