Motor neurone disease hasn't stopped Simon Fitzmaurice from writing and directing one of the best films of the year

 

Motor neurone disease hasn't stopped Simon Fitzmaurice from writing and directing one of the best films of the year

And when Simon Fitzmaurice’s life was cruelly shattered by a diagnosis of motor neurone disease, he refused to let it crush his ambitions.

Now the Irishman has become the first person in the world with MND to write and direct a movie solo.

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