Director
Ken Loach
Starring
Peter Mullan, Louise Goodall, David McKay, Anne-Marie Kennedy
Run Time
105 mins
Release Year
1998
Country of Origin
UK, Germany, France, Spain
Language
English
Director of Photography: Barry Ackroyd
Editor: Jonathan Morris
Produced by: Rebecca O'Brien
Music: George Fenton
Screenplay by: Paul Laverty
Production Designer: Martin Johnson
Director Bio
Ken Loach
P&I - Director Bio
Ken Loach was born in 1936 in Nuneaton. He studied law at St. Peter's Hall, Oxford. After a brief spell in the theatre, Loach was recruited by the BBC in 1963 as a TV director. This launched a long career directing films for TV and cinema, from Cathy Come Home (1966) and Kes (1969) in the sixties to Land and Freedom (1995), Sweet Sixteen (2002), The Wind That Shakes the Barley (Palme d’Or, Cannes Film Festival 2006), The Angels’ Share (2012) and I, Daniel Blake (Palme d’Or, Cannes Film Festival 2016).
My Name Is Joe
Joe (Peter Mullan) is a recovering alcoholic living in a deprived part of Glasgow. A chance at happiness comes in the form of health worker Sarah (Louise Goodall), but can Joe hang on to that hope or will his troubled friend Liam (David McKay) be his downfall? Directed by Ken Loach (I, Daniel Blake) written by Paul Laverty (Even the Rain, The Olive Tree) and produced by Rebecca O’Brien (In Person: Icíar Bollaín in Conversation with Rebecca O’Brien), the film premiered at the 51st Cannes Film Festival, where Mullan won Best Actor. [15]