EXCLUSIVE: Ken Loach and Rebecca O’Brien’s Sixteen Films has sealed a trio of deals for a selection of the director’s back catalog titles as a first major step toward gathering his filmography under one umbrella. The London-based company has appointed France’s Goodfellas as worldwide sales agent for the titles, at the same time as entrusting their future distribution to Le Pacte in France, and Curzon in the UK and Ireland. The titles include Loach’s 2006 Palme d’Or winner The Wind That Shakes the Barley as well as Cannes contenders Land and Freedom (1995), My Name is Joe (1998), Bread & Roses (2000) and Sweet Sixteen (2002); Venice-selected work The Navigators (2001) and Ae Fond Kiss which premiered in Berlin in 2004. The announcement of the deals coincides with news that Loach will travel to Cannes this year for a screening of a 4K version of Spanish Civil War drama Land and Freedom in the festival’s Cinéma de Plage strand, the lineup for which was unveiled today .…