Paul Laverty

Writing

January 1, 1957

5 movies

Biography

Paul Laverty (born 1957) is an Indian-born Irish and Scottish screenwriter and lawyer best known for his collaborations with Ken Loach. He has won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Screenplay and was a nominee for the Best Screenplay award at the BAFTAs. Description above from the Wikipedia article Paul Laverty, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

🎬 Paul Laverty's Filmography

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7.3

Summer 1936: young unemployed communist David Carr leaves Liverpool to join the fight against fascism in Spain. He joins an international group of Militia-men and women, the POUM (Partido Obrero de Unificación Marxista). After being wounded, he goes to Barcelona, where he joins another group of fighters.

Land and Freedom

1995

6.6

A surprisingly candid behind-the-scenes account of the career of Ken Loach, one of Britain’s most celebrated and controversial filmmakers, as he prepares to release his final major film I, Daniel Blake.

Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach

2016

A documentary on the films of Ken Loach. Interviews with cast and crew who worked with Loach over the years. It describe his approach to allowing actors a wide range of freedom.

Carry On Ken

2006

Filmmaker Mark Forbes explores the persistent class barriers within the UK film industry, revealing the struggles, resilience, and untold stories of working-class creatives fighting for a voice in a system stacked against them.

Quiet on Set: The Class Division in the Film Industry?

2025

7.0

Documentary about Ken Loach and Rosa Ayala, a janitor who worked as an extra in the picture 'Bread and Roses'

Ken and Rosa

2001