According to Screen Daily, Ken Loach is about to start filming “The Old Oak”. British leftist director Ken Loach has twice won the Palme d’Or at Cannes with “The Wind That Shakes the Barley” and “I, Daniel Blake”.
Three years later, after “Sorry We Missed You”, Ken Loach will start working on a new project.
In “The Old Oak”, Ken Loach will once again team up with his old collaborator Paul Laverty to tell a story about the Syrian refugee tide in the northeast of England.
“The Old Oak” is set to officially begin filming on May 19.