Filmmaker · England
Ken Loach
Ken Loach was born in 1936 in Nuneaton, the son of a factory electrician, studied law at Oxford, then joined television in the early sixties. In 1966, a film made for public television about a homeless family, separated by the social services, provoked a debate in Parliament and preceded by a few days the launch of a charity for the homeless, which benefited from it. He worked first with the producer Tony Garnett, then with the screenwriter Paul Laverty and the producer Rebecca O'Brien, and twice received the Palme d'Or at Cannes, in 2006 and in 2016.