I, Daniel Blake
By: written by Paul Laverty ; directed by Ken Loach ; produced by Rebecca O'Brien
Contributors: Loach, Ken, 1936- film director, interviewee; O'Brien, Rebecca, film producer, interviewee; Johns, Dave, interviewee; Squires, Hayley, interviewee; Ryan, Robbie, cinematographer, interviewee; Crawford, Kahleen, interviewee; Wilson, Linda, production designer, interviewee; Beckett, Ray, recordist, interviewee; Morris, Jonathan, film editor, interviewee
Publisher: Route
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781901927672
Subjects: Motion picture plays; Drama; Great Britain; Public welfare; Working class; Great Britain. Department for Work and Pensions; History
Description: Daniel Blake, 59, has worked as a joiner most of his life in Newcastle. Now, after a heart attack and nearly falling from a scaffold, he needs help from the State for the first time in his life. he crosses paths with a single mother, Katie, and her two young children, Daisy and Dylan. Katie's only chance to escape a one-roomed homeless hostel in London has been to accept a flat in a city she doesn't know some 300 miles away. Daniel and Katie find themselves in no-man's land caught on the barbed wire of welfare bureaucracy as played out against the rhetoric of "striver and skiver" in modern day Britain. Features original screenplay, photos from the film and production notes from cast and crew, including Paul Laverty, Ken Loach and Rebecca O'Brien.