(who knows) Ken Loach
Jan 14 2008
i am trying to get as direct as possible contact for ken loach. we would like to ask for permission to screen Land and Freedom here (some cinemas we coperate with ask for it).
I tried to get some "friendly" permission contacting his production company (never found direct email or phone) but it was always some shitty clerk who advised me to get in touch with some managers or distribution bosses or they simply told me that it is not possible if we don´t way pay for the rights to screen.
do you know someone who might help us in any way? we would like to do screenings around Slovakia and make it also a part of planned 85th anniversary IWA speech tour here. thanks a lot for any help!!!!
Jan 14 2008
#2
Rogue - that's not necessarily Loach's doing. Sounds like MPAA. They've got people stationed in most every large city watching for things like piracy, unauthorized showings, etc.
Jan 14 2008
#3
Ken Loach may well not have the right to authorise screenings, depends what the deal he made for dictro entailed and how he got his funding.
Jan 14 2008
#4
fnbrill wrote:
Rogue - that's not necessarily Loach's doing. Sounds like MPAA. They've got people stationed in most every large city watching for things like piracy, unauthorized showings, etc.
Oh yes, I know that, it was the MPAA. But Saii makes a good point above.
Jan 14 2008
#5
If anyone is talking to him could they ask him to write anarchists back into the spanish civil war thanks?
Jan 14 2008
#6
They were there weren't they in the film, shooting across the street at the POUM? 
all the best.
gregg.
Haha, recently the infoshop in Austin got a "cease-and-desist" phone call and letter from a lawyer for screening Land and Freedom without permission/royalties. Oops.
Good luck.