Simon Fitzmaurice died at 26 October 2017. He was an Irish filmmaker. A resident of Greystones, County Wicklow, Fitzmaurice published a memoir titled It's Not Yet Dark in 2014 about his experience with motor neuron disease. He directed My Name Is Emily while living with the condition in 2015.Fitzmaurice's second short film, The Sound of People, premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. Soon later, he was diagnosed with a motor neurone disease, leaving him completely paralyzed. With the disease, he wrote and directed the feature film My Name Is Emily, which was released in 2015. Starring Evanna Lynch, Michael Smiley, and George Webster, it tells the story of a teenager who leaves her foster home to free her father from a mental hospital. My Name Is Emily was nominated for eight Irish Film & Television Academy Awards; Fitzmaurice received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2016 London Screenwriters' Festival for the work. It's Not Yet Dark chronicles his experience living in a motorized wheelchair and communicating using an eye-tracking computer. The memoir was followed by a documentary of the same name, directed by Frankie Fenton. [ Ссылка ]

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