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Section: International Competition of European First Films
My Name Is Emily (2015)
After her mother dies and her father is institutionalized, Emily is placed in a foster home and in a new school where she is ostracized. When her father’s annual card fails to arrive on her 16th birth- day, Emily knows something’s wrong. She decides to take matters into her own hands and, enlisting her only friend at school, Arden, sets off on a road trip to break her father out of the psych ward. As their journey progresses Emily and Arden become close, and both come to realize important truths about the nature of relationships, both to their parents and to each other.
| Country | Ireland |
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| Year | 2015 |
| Duration | 94 min |
| Rating | 15 |
| Language | English |
| Subtitle | Czech |
| Directed by | Simon Fitzmaurice |
| Screenplay | Simon Fitzmaurice |
| Director of Photography | Seamus Deasy |
| Music | Stephen McKeon |
| Edited by | Emer Reynolds |
| Contact | Visit Films |
Biography
Simon Fitzmaurice is a screenwriter and director from Ireland. He graduated in Anglo-Irish literature and drama, as well as in film theory and production. He made the award-winning short film Full Circle (2003) and The Sound of the People (2007), then was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, which has gradually completely immobilized him. He made his feature debut My Name Is Emily (2015) thanks to special software that reacts to the movement of his eyes and iris.