I, Daniel Blake: Producer Influence

Question 1

What is Ken Loach’s impact?

Answer 1

• I, Daniel Blake’s director, Ken Loach, has great signifigance as a practicinor in British and Global cinema to this films on-going success (as well as its inital creation), Loach has been able to repeatedly secure funding for social realist films and to an exte the genre itself exists in it’s current form due to his continuing work.

Question 2

How might Ken Loach’s success influence the success of ‘I, Daniel Blake?’

Answer 2

• Loach is a well-known and successful figure in the UK and Europe, therefore it can be argued he adds some notoriety to the set product.
• As Loach is a notable director, inherited fandoms who are eager to watch Ken Loach’s films give him independent license to make films that might now otherwise secure finance.