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Paul Laverty (born April 1, 1957) is a screenwriter and lawyer best known for his screenplays for films directed by Ken Loach.
Paul Laverty. Writer: Sorry We Missed You. Paul Laverty was born in Calcutta, India, to an Irish mother and Scottish father. He obtained a Philosophy degree at the Gregorian University in Rome. Thereafter he obtained a law degree in Glasgow and went on to do an apprenticeship with two of Scotland's most celebrated lawyers. He became a ...
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- Writer, Actor
- Calcutta, India
- Paul Laverty
Mar 10, 2020 · Susan Kouguell speaks with Paul Laverty about his new film "Sorry We Missed You," a wrenching, intimate family drama that exposes the dark side of the so-called “gig economy.”
Sep 18, 2023 · Ken Loach and Paul Laverty joined Adrian Lobb in the pub ahead of The Old Oak's release on 29 September. The new film explores humanity's instinct for solidarity; and asks how we find hope in a hostile environment
- Adrian Lobb
Jan 9, 2017 · Daniel Blake (Dave Johns) embodies the honest, hardworking everyman who's just trying to survive in a society that tells him his poverty is his own fault—and punishes him for it. The man behind this tragic film is Paul Laverty , perhaps the greatest living social realist screenwriter.
- Emily Buder
Sep 29, 2023 · Ken Loach’s long-time collaborator, screenwriter Paul Laverty, discusses the celebrated director’s final film, The Old Oak, which examines the social tensions in a historic mining town. In May...
Apr 13, 2024 · Ken Loach’s longtime screenwriter Paul Laverty talks to Jacobin about their final collaboration on The Old Oak, which follows Syrian refugees and ex-miners in Northeast England, and why the working class remains the last hope for justice in the world.
