Paul Laverty

Paul Laverty is an Irish and Scottish screenwriter and lawyer. He is best known for his collaborations with Ken Loach, including the screenplays for the Palme d'Or winning films The Wind That Shakes the Barley and I, Daniel Blake. For Sweet Sixteen, he won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Screenplay. For It's a Free World. ., he won Golden Osella for Best Screenplay.