Your Q&A with Ken Loach (Questions)

To mark the career of Ken Loach, one of Britain's most distinguished and controversial filmmakers, the director will be answering your questions.

He has made some of Britain's most provocative and emotionally powerful films and TV dramas, including Kes, Cathy Come Home, Land and Freedom, My Name Is Joe and The Wind That Shakes the Barley. We welcome all questions, be they specialist, general or even philosophical. Imagine chatting to Loach: what would you ask him?

Submitting your questions:
We welcome all questions, be they specialist, general or even philosophical. You can send questions through:
* YouTube: Leave a comment below
* Twitter: Tweet your question, including the tag #BFIquestion
* Facebook: Leave a question on our Facebook page

Deadline for questions: 1PM GMT Wednesday 14 September 2011

How it works:
Soon after the submission deadline, Ken Loach will answer as many of your questions as possible on camera. A video response will then make its way on to our YouTube channel.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• BFI
• Ken
• Loach
• Kes
• Cathy
• Come
• Home

[WarrenOates1000]

What has it felt like, being the subject of a BFI retrospective? Seeing your films again, which are you most proud of?

[FirstLightMovies]

First Light would like to ask on behalf of our interested young people:

We’ve heard that you don’t always let your actors know what’s happening in a scene, why do you do this and has it ever gone wrong?

Is it true you shoot in the order scenes appear in the script and if so why?

Do you think it’s important to work collaboratively with a writer and/or producer or do you prefer to come up with ideas alone?

Thanks BFI!

[videochemist]

Have you ever missed a deadline which you really wished you hadn't?

[1rufsan]

The comedy seems unintentional but how much of it is intended ?

[jovossuck123]

How important is Authorship (Auteurism) in cinema? And is it even more relevant today when it is much easier for people to make films?