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,[1] Enduring Love,[2] Venus,[3] Hyde Park on Hudson,[4] and Le Week-end.
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.
Other BBC dramas produced by Loader included Clarissa and "The Buddha of Suburbia" - both nominated for six BAFTA awards[6] "Look At It This Way", from the novel by Justin Cartwright, and screen versions of plays "Bed" and "My Night With Reg".
In 1996 Loader left the BBC to set up and act as General Manager of The Bridge, a London-based joint-venture between Sony Pictures Entertainment and Le Studio Canal Plus.
Loader was a partner in Natural Nylon Entertainment, the film company founded by actors Jude Law, Ewan McGregor, Jonny Lee Miller, Sean Pertwee and Sadie Frost et al between 2001 and 2003.