KES director Ken Loach will be delivering the industry keynote speech at next month's London Film Festival, it has been announced.
The award-winning film maker is best known for his gritty dramas tackling social and political issues.
Festival artistic director Sandra Hebron said: “Ken has a very unique voice and place in British film culture, and since making a name for himself with Cathy Come Home in the mid 1960s, has continued to make films which are as engaging as they are thought provoking.
"From his early background in television he has tirelessly ploughed his own furrow and his remarkable body of work includes such acclaimed titles as Days of Hope, Riff-Raff, My Name is Joe, The Wind that Shakes the Barley and Looking For Eric.
With his latest film Route Irish part of this year’s festival programme, we cannot think of a more appropriate keynote speaker.”
BFI London Film Festival. October 13 to October 28. For more information on all the films showing at the festival, visit bfi.org.uk/lff
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