Simon Fitzmaurice documentary to be released next week
IT’S NOT YET DARK, narrated by Colin Farrell, is a documentary film about the Irish filmmaker and bestselling author Simon Fitzmaurice, who, despite his ALS illness, directed an award-winning film with his eyes.
The debut film by Irish director Frankie Fenton has been selected as part of the Cinema Versa strand of remarkable documentaries at the Leeds International Festival from 13th to 15th November.
From 13th November, the film will be available in the UK as VoD on Sky, iTunes, Google Play, Amazon Prime and Microsoft.
IT’S NOT YET DARK won Best Irish Feature Documentary and Best Cinematography in an Irish Feature at Galway Film Fleadh 2016.
ABOUT THE FILM
IT’S NOT YET DARK is a documentary about the multi-award winning Irish filmmaker and author Simon Fitzmaurice, who sadlly passed away last 27th October.
At the age of 34, he was diagnosed with ALS shortly after a short film was premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. It was a deep shock. However, Simon refused to give up and began working on the script for a new feature: My name is Emily.
Five years later, the father of five children was physically paralyzed.
IT’S NOT YET DARK is told by Colin Farrell and contains excerpts from Simon Fitzmaurice’s autobiographical bestseller. The film accompanies him as he directs his first feature-length film despite the disease – with the use of the last body part he can still consciously control: his eyes.
