{"id":1598,"date":"2016-02-01T12:03:54","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T12:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/?p=1598"},"modified":"2016-12-30T23:22:04","modified_gmt":"2016-12-30T23:22:04","slug":"my-name-is-emily-ireland-thursday-1-december-8pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/2016\/02\/my-name-is-emily-ireland-thursday-1-december-8pm\/","title":{"rendered":"MY NAME IS EMILY [Ireland], Thursday 24 November, 8pm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZeAJpAKoShY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"font_8\">Shortly after his short film &#8216;The Sound of People&#8217; premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2008, the Irish director Simon Fitzmaurice was diagnosed with motor neuron disease, the debilitating disease for which the viral ice-bucket challenge raised awareness.\u00a0 Now completely paralysed, Fitzmaurice typed the script for My Name is Emily, as well as his best-selling book &#8216;It\u2019s Not Yet Dark&#8217; through the movement of his eyes and iris recognition software.\u00a0 This is also how he communicated to direct the film during its six week shoot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font_8\">It\u2019s Emily\u2019s 16th\u00a0birthday and for the first time in her life, she doesn\u2019t receive a birthday card from her dad.\u00a0 After meeting a fellow outsider at her new school, Emily and her handsome ally, Arden, decide to embark on a road trip adventure across Ireland to find her missing father.\u00a0\u00a0They are an odd couple, this pale girl and the boy in the velvet suit, and along the way, they find love as well as\u00a0some hard and unexpected truths.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font_8\">This life-enhancing film won eight IFTA nominations and stellar reviews.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font_8\">Click <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/culture\/film\/my-name-is-emily-review-a-teen-road-movie-that-s-well-worth-the-mileage-1.2600602\">here<\/a><\/strong> for The Irish Times review.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font_8\">Click <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mynameisemilythefilm.com\/\">here<\/a><\/strong> for the official website.<\/p>\n<p>Ireland, 2015 | Language: English |100 minutes | Cert: TBC<\/p>\n<p>Starring: Evanna Lynch, Michael Smiley, Martin McCann<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shortly after his short film &#8216;The Sound of People&#8217; premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2008, the Irish director Simon Fitzmaurice was diagnosed with motor neuron disease, the debilitating&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1602,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1598"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1628,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598\/revisions\/1628"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}