Source: Rebecca O’BrienRebecca O’BrienRevered UK producer O’Brien is a long-time collaborator of director Ken Loach and screenwriter Paul Laverty. The trio’s achievements include two Palme d’Or-winning dramas, The Wind That Shakes The Barley in 2006 and I, Daniel Blake in 2016, both produced through their London-headquartered outfit Sixteen Films, founded in 2002. O’Brien’s first taste of producing came in children’s television, while her later credits include Lynne Ramsay’s You Were Never Really Here.Sixteen Films is Venice-bound with the world premiere of Athina Rachel Tsangari’s Harvest in Competition, while Laura Carreira’s debut feature On Falling will bow in Toronto’s Discovery strand.What’s your office like? We rent a couple of floors in a wonderful Georgian building on Wardour Street, in the middle of Soho. We’ve got two rooms — one which has been Ken Loach’s room with his assistant, and the other is the production hub. Our building has now got quite a few people in it. [Lobo F...
