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Rebecca O'Brien (born 25 October 1957) is a BAFTA-winning film producer, known especially for her work with Ken Loach. O'Brien was born in London, England. She grew up in Peebles. Together with Loach and scriptwriter Paul Laverty, she runs the production company Sixteen Films, formed in 2002.
Rebecca O'Brien has been an independent film producer for thirty five years. Prior to becoming a producer she worked her way up through the industry in various production roles including location manager on MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE (1985) and production manager on some early Channel 4 films.
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- Rebecca O'Brien
- London, England, UK
- What I Cover
- My Background
- Journalistic Ethics
I cover campaign finance as part of the paper’s politics team. Broadly, this beat is about money in politics, which includes political advertising, disclosure requirements and how candidates and their allies use the money they raise.
Before joining the politics beat in 2023, I covered courts and criminal justice around New York City. I came to The Times in 2021 after seven years at The Wall Street Journal, where I primarily wrote about white-collar law enforcement. I was part of a team there that won a 2019 Pulitzer Prize for coverage of payoffs to women who said they had affai...
I share the values of independence and follow the guidelines outlined in The Times’s Ethical Journalism Handbook, which details the standards of integrity that guide all Times journalists. I don’t participate in politics, nor do I make political donations. I aim to be straightforward, thorough, and unsentimental in my reporting and my writing, an a...
Feb 18, 2024 · Sixteen Films, co-founded by Ken Loach and producer Rebecca O’Brien in 2002, has been behind every film by the beloved and iconoclastic director over the last two decades, including “The Wind...
Rebecca O'Brien is a BAFTA-winning film producer, known especially for her work with Ken Loach. O'Brien was born in London, England.
Rebecca O’Brien: Director. Rebecca is an ACCTA nominated TV Director who has directed and produced award-winning projects for ABC TV, Netflix and NITV. She received a grant from Screen Australia to shadow director Michael Rymer on the set of Battlestar Galatica and spent four months in Vancouver.
Although her CV includes films by Stephen Frears, Laura Mulvey, Peter Wollen and even Richard Curtis, Rebecca O'Brien's biggest contribution to British film culture has been as producer of the majority of Ken Loach's recent films, in the process helping him to become one of Europe's most prolific filmmakers.
