Screenwriter, and director Ken Loach, used the Bafta’s to urge the film community to call for a ceasefire in Gaza, saying it’s their job ‘is to reflect the world around us.’
‘When I began in the sixties, it wasn’t seen as a bad thing to be committed to your principles’ Loach told the Independent on the red carpet, taking a jab at younger generations of actors and filmmakers.
The 87-year-old, who’s film The Old Oak was up for outstanding British Film Category posed with a ‘stop the war’ poster on the red carpet in protest against the war in the middle-east.
