Kevin Loader

Kevin Loader is a British film and television producer. Since 1996 he and co-owner Roger Michell have run a London-based production company, Free Range Films, through which the pair have made several feature films directed by Michell, including The Mother,Enduring Love, Venus,Hyde Park on Hudson, and Le Week-end. Their most recent film is an adaptation by Michell of Daphne Du Maurier's "My Cousin Rachel". The company is also developing and producing film and television projects with other directors. Loader was awarded the Bafta for Best Television Serial in 2015 for "The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies.

Loader was educated at Maidstone Grammar School and Christ's College, Cambridge, where he read English. He then pursued post-graduate studies at The University of Connecticut, where he also taught.

Loader returned to London and joined BBC Television as a trainee in 1982, and over the next seven years worked on a series of current affairs, magazine and arts programmes. He directed films for arts documentary strands such as "Omnibus" and "Arena", and in 1989 was the founding Managing Editor of "The Late Show", a nightly live arts programme that ran on BBC2 for four years.

In 1990 he moved to BBC Drama, where his first production was "The Wolvis Family", an innovative studio comedy about a family in therapy written by Tom Lubbock and Roger Parsons. Other BBC dramas produced by Loader included "Clarissa" and "The Buddha of Suburbia" - both nominated for six BAFTA awards "Look At It This Way", from the novel by Justin Cartwright, and screen versions of plays "Bed" and "My Night With Reg". He acted as an Executive Producer on several series including "Holding On" and "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall". He also worked with Salman Rushdie on a planned, but aborted, seven-hour version of "Midnight's Children".

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