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

Loach values having a strong, creative partnership with scriptwriters, most recently with Paul Laverty, who has written nine feature films for Loach ( including The Wind That Shakes The Barley and Sweet Sixteen ), and previously with Jim Allen ( Land & Freedom ) and Barry Hines ( Kes ).

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

Fenton has scored more feature films for Ken Loach than for any other director ; by March 2009, a total of ten.

" While such controversy may now seem strange, Loach has admitted that " e were very anxious for our plays not to be considered dramas but as continuations of the news " which preceded The Wednesday Play < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s slot.

However, Ken Loach has said that despite the public outcry following the play, it had little practical effect in reducing homelessness, other than changing rules so that homeless fathers could stay with their wives & children in hostels.

Loach minnow has an elongated, compressed body with its size rarely exceeding 65mm ( 2. 6 in.

His music has often been used by film directors, including Ken Loach and Jean-Luc Godard.

An historical event, the bloody fight between Republicans and Anarchists for controlling the Telefónica building in Barcelona, has been chosen by Loach as an emblem of this internal conflict ( See Barcelona May Days ).

In 1966, Loach made the influential docudrama Cathy Come Home portraying working-class people affected by homelessness and unemployment, and presenting a powerful and influential critique of the workings of the Social Services.

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.

The programmes were not broadcast by Channel 4, a decision Loach claimed was politically motivated.

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.

Loach was interviewed by Theodoros Papadopoulos in December 1998.

* The 2000 film Bread and Roses by British director Ken Loach depicted the struggle of cleaners in Los Angeles to fight for better pay, and working conditions, and the right to join a union.

Likewise, the film Land and Freedom, directed by Ken Loach, tells of a group of POUM soldiers fighting in the war from the perspective of a British member of the British Communist Party.

He was spotted in a London pub by Ken Loach who asked him to star in his film Poor Cow.

The same year he starred in his first movie, Riff-Raff, directed by Ken Loach.

In 1964 he and Kenneth Adam initiated the new anthology series The Wednesday Play, a BBC equivalent of Armchair Theatre, which had great success and critical acclaim with plays written and directed by the likes of Dennis Potter, Jeremy Sandford and Ken Loach.

* Black Jack, a 1979 film by Ken Loach

* Kes ( film ), 1969 film directed by Ken Loach

* Hidden Agenda ( 1990 film ), a political thriller directed by Ken Loach and written by Jim Allen

In the early 1990s, she and the film director Ken Loach collaborated on an edition of Hard News which investigated the treatment of trade unionist leader Arthur Scargill by The Daily Mirror newspaper and investigative journalist Roger Cook.

In 2011, she starred in Oranges and Sunshine, a film recounting the true story of children sent into abusive care homes in Australia, directed by Jim Loach, and War Horse, an adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's prizewinning novel, directed by Steven Spielberg.

The name ' Big Flame ' came from a television play, The Big Flame ( 1969 ), written by Jim Allen and directed by Ken Loach for the BBC's Wednesday Play season.

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

* The Navigators-a film by Ken Loach set about a group of railwaymen, just after Privatisation.

* Sweet Sixteen ( 2002 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 ".

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

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

Other contemporary British film directors include Paul W. S. Anderson, Andrea Arnold, Richard Attenborough, Kenneth Branagh, Danny Boyle, Terence Davies, Mike Figgis, Terry Gilliam, Tom Hooper, Mike Leigh, Ken Loach, Sam Mendes, Alan Parker, Sally Potter, Lynne Ramsay, Guy Ritchie, Michael Winterbottom, Edgar Wright, Joe Wright and Matthew Vaughn.

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

Loach was born in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, the son of Vivien ( née Hamlin ) and John Loach.

Ken Loach and His Films.

" Land and Freedom " contains a quintessentially Loach sequence of a 12 minute political discussion amongst villagers trying to decide whether or not a village's smallholdings should be collectivized.

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.

Throughout the 2000s Loach continued to intersperse wider political dramas such as Bread and Roses ( which focused on the Los Angeles janitors strike ) and Route Irish ( set in the Iraq occupation ) with smaller examinations of personal relationships.

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.

De Sica's film had a particularly profound effect on Loach.

Loach makes great efforts to help the actors express themselves naturally and honestly.

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

" This explains how Loach regards politics and drama as intertwined, rather than existing in separate spheres.

A member of the Labour Party from the early 1960s, Loach left in the mid-1990s.

In May 2009, organisers of the Edinburgh International Film Festival returned a £ 300 grant from the Israeli Embassy after speaking with Ken Loach.