Im Rahmen des Symposiums wird am Do. 19.1. | 18.00 in der Oberen Rathaushalle der achte Bremer Filmpreis der Kunst- und Kultur-Stiftung der Sparkasse Bremen an den britischen Filmemacher Ken Loach verliehen.

Im Anschluss an die Verleihung wird der Bremer Filmpreisträger Ken Loach um 21.00 Uhr persönlich seinen Film »My Name is Joe« (GB/D 1998, 105 Min., OmU) im Kino 46 präsentieren

"SH: The Labour party's actually disowned Ken now anyway. Can I tell them the story about the CD Rom? If I can remember it. A while ago, Ken was phoned up by the foreign office and they said we are making this great CD Rom about Cool Britannia and we would like to celebrate British film makers, but unfortunately we cannot afford to have photos taken of you or to get a CV done so could you send one in? So Ken sent his CV in and he said, "I'm a filmmaker and my aim is to expose the sham of social democracy as best exemplified by the Blair project." (Audience laughs). He got this letter back saying "Thank you very much for your photo and your CV but unfortunately, we are sending them back, because we can't include you in the project." So, Labour has actually disowned Ken Loach, the film maker."