PATRONS

Nick is an award-winning British filmmaker and the Honorary President of Unchosen. He is best known for his iconoclastic and daring documentaries, which include Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer (1992) and The Leader, His Driver and the Driver’s Wife (1991). His film Ghosts (2006), a drama documentary based on the 2004 Morecambe Bay cockling tragedy in which 23 Chinese illegal immigrant workers lost their lives while cockle picking, opened the first Unchosen film week in 2008.

Ken Loach is an internationally acclaimed British filmmaker and known for his social realist style of directing. His films often reflect his political beliefs, championing workers’ rights (Riff-Raff, 1991) or highlighting social justice issues such as homelessness (Cathy Come Home, 1966) and immigration (Bread and Roses, 2000). In the more recent production It’s a Free World… (2007), Ken took on the subject of exploitation for labour in the context of a world where the pursuit of profit is often put ahead of human concerns. It was screened as the closing film of the first Unchosen film festival in Bristol and since then Ken has been a strong supporter of our organisation.