In 1982, Loach and Central Independent Television were commissioned by Channel 4 to make Questions of Leadership, a documentary series on the response of the British trade union movement to the challenge posed by the policies of the Thatcher government, which also gave members an opportunity to call their own leaders to account.

His son Jim Loach has also become a television and film director.

The festival's chief executive, Richard Moore, compared Loach's tactics to blackmail, stating that " we will not participate in a boycott against the State of Israel, just as we would not contemplate boycotting films from China or other nations involved in difficult long-standing historical disputes .” Australian lawmaker Michael Danby also criticised Loach ’ s tactics stating that “ Israelis and Australians have always had a lot in common, including contempt for the irritating British penchant for claiming cultural superiority.

Loach has also expressed strong support for Chechen independence from Russia.

Edvin Loach, also Edwin Loach, is a village in eastern Herefordshire, England, about four miles north of the town of Bromyard, and near the village of Edwin Ralph.

Gerrard also scored the Jim Loach directed Oranges and Sunshine starring Emily Watson and Hugo Weaving released in April 2011 which garnered her with another nomination at the 2011 IF Awards for Best Music Score.

Several prominent directors also featured, including Stephen Frears, Alan Clarke, Michael Apted, Mike Newell, Roland Joffe, Ken Loach, Lindsay Anderson, and Mike Leigh.

It was also shown at the British Film Institute in a 2011 Ken Loach film festival.

It is also available as a special feature on the 2011 Criterion bluray and DVD release of Kes, another Ken Loach Film.

The River Otters also boasted veteran NHL ' ers like Jim Montgomery, Dennis Vial, and Lonnie Loach, who wore # 33 and is the only person to have his number retired with the Missouri River Otters.

Members also recorded as: Matthew Hein ( solo ), Wallpaper ( David French ), Awesome ( Luke Hollywood with guest appearances from other NBT alumni ), Gashdig, Popewyrm, Incinerators & Diamond Tuck ( Jasin Fell ), Denk ( solo ), The Loach Clips ( Lars ), and Prince Mattie Gaunt ( solo ).

He also wrote the screenplay for Fatherland, which was directed by Ken Loach.

Locarno is proud to number amongst recipients of the Pardo d ‘ onore such master filmmakers as Jacques Rivette, Manoel de Oliveira, Samuel Fuller, Bernardo Bertolucci, Jean-Luc Godard, Daniel Schmid, Ken Loach, Ermanno Olmi, Terry Gilliam, Abbas Kiarostami, Wim Wenders, Aleksandr Sokurov, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Amos Gitai, William Friedkin and, in 2010, Alain Tanner, but also to Jia Zhangke.

Helen Mirren, Michael Sheen and David Thewlis joined the prestigious list of patrons including Mike Figgis, Tom Hollander, Adrian Lester, Ken Loach, Ewan McGregor, Samantha Morton, Bill Nighy, Trudie Styler, Tilda Swinton, Meera Syal, Ralph Fiennes, Ray Winstone, Daniel Craig and Michael Winterbottom.

In 2007, Loach was one of more than 100 artists and writers who signed an open letter initiated by Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism and the South West Asian, North African Bay Area Queers ( SWANABAQ ) and calling on the San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival " to honour calls for an international boycott of Israeli political and cultural institutions, by discontinuing Israeli consulate sponsorship of the LGBT film festival and not co-sponsoring events with the Israeli consulate.

In an open letter to Ms Shalom Ezer, Ken Loach wrote " From the beginning, Israel and its supporters have attacked their critics as anti-semites or racists.

Loach is supporting the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition in the London Assembly election, 2012 He wrote a letter to The Observer in 2012 condemning the Globe theatre for allowing an Israeli theatre company to perform there.

It is part of the modern civil parish of Edvin Loach and Saltmarshe.

In 1965 it was adapted for television by the BBC as part of The Wednesday Play anthology strand directed by Ken Loach.

This aspect was further examined by Ken Loach in part of an ( untransmitted ) documentary film series, Questions of Leadership ( 1983 ).

The film is anchored in part by its setting in the kind of milieu more common to classic British kitchen-sink dramas or the films of Ken Loach than to anything this emotionally tender.

" Loach said he had a " respectful and reasoned " conversation with event organisers, saying they should not be accepting funds from Israel.

On 28 May 2006, Loach won the Palme d ' Or at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival for his film The Wind That Shakes the Barley, a film about the Irish War of Independence and the subsequent Irish Civil War during the 1920s.

The film competed for the Palme d ' Or at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival where Loach won the Jury Prize.

Ken Loach at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.

In Kes the boy actor, discovering the dead bird at the end, believed Loach had killed the bird, which he had become fond of during the filming ( the crew used a dead bird found elsewhere ).

Loach opposes censorship in cinema and was outraged at the " 18 " certificate given to Sweet Sixteen.

Loach, Laverty and O ' Brien subsequently wrote that: " We feel duty bound to take advice from those living at the sharp end inside the occupied territories.

* Ken Loach at MUBI

* The Ken Loach film Ladybird Ladybird was filmed at many sites around Acton including The Mount, the Town Hall, Vyner Road, Cumberland Park and parts of South Acton.

The film, directed by British filmmaker Ken Loach, received critical acclaim after its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival.

Loach minnow can be found at turbulent, rocky riffles of mainstream rivers.

* Other cast: Nicky Henson as Trooper Swallow, Wilfrid Brambell as Master Loach, Tony Selby as Salter, Bernard Kay as Fisherman, Godfrey James as Webb, Michael Beint as Captain Gordon, John Treneman as Harcourt, Bill Maxwell as Gifford, " Morris Jarr " ( pseudonym for Paul Ferris ) as Paul, Maggie Kimberly as Elizabeth, Peter Haigh as Lavenham Magistrate, Hira Talfrey as Hanged Woman, Anne Tirard as Old Woman, Peter Thomas as Farrier, Edward Palmer as Shepherd, David Webb as Jailer, Lee Peters as Sergeant, David Lyell as Footsoldier, Alf Joint as Sentry, Martin Terry as Hoxne Innkeeper, Jack Lynn as Brandeston Innkeeper, Beaufoy Milton as Priest, Dennis Thorne as Villager, Michael Segal as Villager, Toby Lennon as Old Man, Margaret Nolan as Girl at Inn, Sally Douglas as Girl at Inn, Donna Reading as Girl at Inn, Derek Ware as Boy at Hoxne Inn.

One of her more notable pupils was the internationally respected historian on mid-Tudor England, Jennifer Loach, a Tutorial Fellow at Somerville College, Oxford.

Spanner Films is a small London-based documentary company founded by film director Franny Armstrong in 1997. Notable productions include the no-budget epic McLibel ( 1997 / 2005 )-the story of a postman and a gardener who took on McDonald's and won, with courtroom reconstructions by Ken Loach, and Drowned Out ( 2002 ), following an Indian family who decide to stay at home and drown rather than make way for the Narmada Dam.

She was present at the 2005 Berlinale, the Berlin International Film Festival, to promote two films she had acted in: Tickets ( 2005 ), a three-segment film directed by Ermanno Olmi, Abbas Kiarostami, and Ken Loach, and Crustacés et Coquillages, a comedy directed by the French duo of Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau.

Ken Loach ) won the Best Contemporary Screenplay prize at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival.

Kenneth " Ken " Loach ( born 17 June 1936 ) is a Palme D ' Or winning English film and television director.

In a 2011 interview for the Financial Times, Loach explains how " The politics are embedded into the characters and the narrative, which is a more sophisticated way of doing it ".

Loach lives with his wife, Lesley, in Bath, where he is a supporter of and shareholder in Bath City F. C.

In June 2009, Loach, Paul Laverty ( writer ) and Rebecca O ' Brien ( producer ) pulled their film Looking For Eric from the Melbourne International Film Festival, where the Israeli Embassy is a sponsor, after the festival declined the withdraw their sponsorship.

Loach is a Patron of several charities, including Doorway, a homeless charity in Nuneaton, and Developing Health and Independence ( DHI ) in Bath.

* Interview with Loach about My Name is Joe

Matthew Saad Muhammad ( born Maxwell Antonio Loach, June 16, 1954 ) is a former boxer who was the world's light heavyweight champion.

* Ken Loach, the film director, who is an elected member of its national council.

* The Navigators ( film ) is a film by Ken Loach.

Cathy Come Home is a 1966 BBC television play by Jeremy Sandford, produced by Tony Garnett and directed by Ken Loach, about homelessness.

Along with other Loach films, it is currently available to watch on Loach's YouTube channel.

My Name Is Joe is a 1998 Scottish film directed by Ken Loach.

) Jennifer Loach, in Edward VI ( Yale University Press, 1999 ): 62, notes that Lady Fane is Crowley's " only possible link, and a tenuous one, with Somerset ".

Carla's Song ( 1996 ) is a British movie directed by Ken Loach with screenplay by Paul Laverty.

Land and Freedom ( or Tierra y Libertad ) is a 1995 film directed by Ken Loach and written by Jim Allen.

According to Ken Loach, the most important scene of the film is the debate in an assembly of a village successfully liberated by the militia, which highlights one of the great strengths of Loach as a director in that it is a truly compelling encounter.