Long synopsis : Daniel Blake (59) has worked as a joiner most of his life in Newcastle. Now, for the first time ever, he needs help from the State. He crosses paths with a single mother Katie and her two young children, Daisy and Dylan. Katie’s only chance to escape a one-roomed homeless hostel in London has been to accept a flat in a city she doesn’t know, some 300 miles away. Daniel and Katie find themselves in no-man’s land, caught on the barbed wire of welfare bureaucracy as played out against the rhetoric of ‘striver and skiver’ in modern day Britain.

Cast

• Dave Johns, Hayley Squires

Crew

• Producer(s): Rebecca O'Brien
• Director(s): Ken Loach
• Screenplay: Paul Laverty
• DP: Robbie Ryan
• Editing: Jonathan Morris
• Original Music: George Fenton
• Costume Designer: Joanne Slater
• Sound Editor: kevin Brazier

• Genre(s): Drama, Political


• Production company: SIXTEEN FLY LIMITED, WHY NOT PRODUCTIONS, WILD BUNCH
• Production date: 2016
• Language: English
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