Background
Paul Laverty was born in Calcutta, India, to an Irish mother and Scottish father.
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Bread and Roses by Paul Laverty (2001-03-05)
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Bread and Roses (ScreenPress Film Screenplays)
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In this emotionally–charged screenplay, Paul Laverty’s third collaboration with director Ken Loach, the writer explores the most marginalized of LA communities. “Bread and Roses” is a look at “the other America” as seen through the eyes of Maya, a young Mexican woman who’s been smuggled across the border to join her sister Rosa in Los Angeles. Against Rosa’s wishes, Maya takes a cleaning job at a prestigious downtown office block, where she begins to confront the realities of life on the edges of American society. The arrival of Sam, a dedicated and uncompromising union organizer who’s determined to improve the lot of the workers, sets in motion a series of events that has devastating consequences for them all.
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Sweet Sixteen: A Screenplay
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Paul Laverty
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Strathclyde Law School. Pontifical Gregorian University. University of Strathclyde.
Career
He obtained a Philosophy degree at the Gregorian University in Rome. Thereafter he obtained a law degree at Strathclyde Law School, in Glasgow. During the mid-1980s he travelled to Nicaragua and lived there for almost three years.
He worked for a Nicaraguan domestic human rights organisation which provided hard evidence of human rights abuses during the war between the elected Nicaraguan Government (The Sandinistas) and the United States backed "Contras" in which the subject of human rights became highly contested.
Every major human rights organisation including Amnesty and Americas Watch accused the United States backed contras of systematic abuse against Nicaraguan civilians. He travelled to the war-zones and obtained corroborated eye witness accounts which were passed on to international human rights organisations.
He also travelled widely in El Salvador, during its civil war, and Guatemala, too. (His interests in Latin America affairs continued much later with long research trips to Chiapas in Mexico, and along the United States-Mexican border concentrating on the city of Juárez)
After his time in Central America Laverty made contact with director Ken Loach for whom he wrote Carla"s Song, his first screenplay, which starred Robert Carlyle.
Bread and Roses, detailing the experiences of migrant labour, was shot in Los Angeles, and featured Adrien Brody in a leading role.
In 2005 the two men collaborated on The Wind That Shakes the Barley which concerns Irish War of Independence in early 1920s. Laverty has written eight full length feature scripts and one short directed by Ken Loach and they have several other projects in development. Both work closely with producer Rebecca O"Brien.
Loach"s comedy featuring the French football player Eric Cantona, Looking for Eric, is a collaborative effort with Laverty, as is his film about mercenaries in Iraq, Route Irish.
Before writing Laverty likes to immerse himself in the world of the film and carries out detailed research before writing the first draft. While he continues to work with Ken Loach he has other feature projects in development with other directors.
His most recent screenplays have been published in book form by Route. Looking Foreign Eric, Route Irish and Even the Rain.
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Bread and Roses (ScreenPress Film Screenplays)
(In this emotionally–charged screenplay, Paul Laverty’s th...)
- Bread and Roses by Paul Laverty (2001-03-05)
- Sweet Sixteen: A Screenplay
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Bread and Roses (ScreenPress Film Screenplays)
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