Paul Laverty has worked with Ken Loach and producer Rebecca O’Brien for 30 years and wrote the two Palme d’or, The Wind that Shakes the Barley (2006) and I, Daniel Blake (2016). He also won best screenplay awards at the following festivals: Festival de Cannes for Sweet Sixteen (2002), Venice International Film Festival for It’s a Free World! (2007), San Sebastián Film Festival for Yuli (2018). He has written 14 films for the director, 11 selected for the Official Competition of the Festival de Cannes, including My Name is Joe, Looking for Eric, The Angels’Share, and The Old Oak. He also works closely with Spanish director Icíar Bollaín. They made Even the Rain, winner of the Panorama Audience Award in Berlin and shortlisted for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film (2012), El olivo (2016) and Yuli (2018).
Jury attendance
- Member Feature films, 2026
