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.

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.

* Filmmakers Ken Loach, Dardenne brothers, Jon Jost, Walter Salles, Olivier Assayas, Tony Gatlif, Abbas Kiarostami, Kiomars Pourahmad, Bahram Bayzai, Asghar Farhadi, Nasser Taghvai, Kamran Shirdel and Tahmineh Milani, actors Brian Cox and Mehdi Hashemi, actresses Fatemeh Motamed-Aria and Golshifteh Farahani,

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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