Mark Jenkin

Cornish filmmaker

Director
Editor
Screenwriter
Cinematographer
Producer

Years active2002–presentWebsitemarkjenkin.co.uk

Mark Jenkin (born 1976)^[1] is a Cornish^[2] director, editor, screenwriter, cinematographer and producer. He wrote and directed the film Bait (2019), which earned him a BAFTA Award for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer.^[3]

Career

Jenkin is a descendant of Alfred Wallis, a Cornish artist and fisherman.^[4]

Jenkin won the Frank Copplestone First Time Director Award at The Celtic Film & Television Festival in 2002 for his debut film Golden Burn.^[5] He followed this success with documentaries, shorts and low-budget feature films including The Man Who Needed a Traffic Light, The Rabbit and The Lobsterman, a documentary on the life of Cornish playwright Nick Darke. His 2007 feature film The Midnight Drives was described by Derek Malcolm, film critic for The Evening Standard as "A moving film about parentage with an exceptional performance from Colin Holt at its centre".^[6]

Jenkin wrote and directed the 2019 drama film Bait, starring Edward Rowe and Jenkin's partner Mary Woodvine.^[7]

In 2020, Jenkin was recognised as a Cornish Bard for his work in promoting Cornwall’s heritage.^[8] In 2022, he created two music videos for the band the Smile.^[9]^[10]

Filmography

Films

All shorts directed & edited by Jenkin

Shorts

2003 The Man Who Needed a Traffic Light (short) – also writer
2009 Aurora's Kiss (short) – also writer
2012 Last Post^[11]
2013 Cape Cornwall Calling / All the White Horses – also writer^[12]
2015 Bronco's House (short) – also writer
2016 Enough to Fill Up an Egg Cup (short) – also writer/director of photography
2016 Dear Marianne (short) – also writer^[13]
2016 The Essential Cornishman (short) – also writer
2017 The Road to Zennor (short) – also writer^[14]
2017 Tomato – also writer
2018 Vertical Shapes in a Horizontal Landscape – also writer^[15]
2018 David Bowie Is Dead (short) – also writer/editor
2019 Hard, Cracked the Wind^[16]
2020 29 Hour Long Birthday – also writer^[17]

All features directed & written by Jenkin

Features

2002 Golden Burn – also editor
2004 The Rabbit – also editor
2007 The Midnight Drives – also editor
2011 Happy Christmas^[18]
2019 Bait – also editor
2022 Enys Men – also editor

Other work

1999 Walking with Dinosaurs – Production assistant
2004 The Wrecking Season – Editor
2004 New Reed – Cinematographer/editor
2007 The Lark – Editor

References

^ Jude Rogers (27 December 2022). "'I like films that take you into the woods – then leave you there' – the beguiling folk-horror of Mark Jenkin". The Guardian. Retrieved 31 December 2022.
^ "Film-maker Mark Jenkin: 'We're Cornish. We can just have our own culture'". The Irish Times. Retrieved 19 January 2023.
^ Ferguson, Emma (3 February 2020). "BAFTA for Cornish film Bait written by Mark Jenkin". Falmouth Packet. Retrieved 27 February 2020.
^ Laura Snapes (23 August 2019). "Rocking the boat: how Cornish class war inspired a masterpiece". The Guardian. Retrieved 7 April 2024.
^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 July 2011. Retrieved 20 March 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ "Nighttime screening of The Midnight Drives". West Briton. Archived from the original on 5 May 2013.
^ Trewhela, Lee (20 August 2019). "Stunning film shows there's more to Cornwall than Poldark". cornwalllive. Retrieved 27 February 2020.
^ Emma Ferguson (10 August 2020). "BAFTA winner Mark Jenkin among new bards of Cornwall 2020". Falmouth Packet. Retrieved 15 January 2023.
^ Moore, Sam (27 January 2022). "Listen to Radiohead side project the Smile's new single 'The Smoke'". NME. Retrieved 27 January 2022.
^ Minsker, Evan (17 March 2022). "The Smile share video for new song 'Skrting on the Surface'". Pitchfork. Retrieved 17 March 2022.
^ Jenkin, Mark (21 March 2012), Last Post (2009), retrieved 8 April 2023
^ Jenkin, Mark (31 December 2012), cape cornwall calling / all the white horses (2013), retrieved 8 April 2023
^ Jenkin, Mark (7 October 2016), Dear Marianne (clip), retrieved 8 April 2023
^ Jenkin, Mark (23 May 2017), The Road to Zennor (clip), retrieved 8 April 2023
^ Vertical Shapes in a Horizontal Landscape, retrieved 8 April 2023
^ "Hard Cracked The Wind". www.leedsfilm.com. Retrieved 8 April 2023.
^ "29 Hour Long Birthday (Int. Shorts 4: Doc Shorts) | International Shorts 4: Documentary Shorts + Q&A | 65th Cork International Film Festival". watch.corkfilmfest.org. Retrieved 8 April 2023.
^ Farley, Emma (18 October 2011). "Happy Christmas movie - a dysfunctional X-mas Eve in West Cornwall". D&CFilm. Retrieved 8 April 2023.

External links

Mark Jenkin at IMDb

BAFTA Award for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer

1998–2008
Carl Foreman Award

Richard Kwietniowski (1998)
Lynne Ramsay (1999)
Paweł Pawlikowski (2000)
Joel Hopkins, Nicola Usborne (2001)
Asif Kapadia (2002)
Emily Young (2003)
Amma Asante (2004)
Joe Wright (2005)
Andrea Arnold (2006)
Matt Greenhalgh (2007)
Steve McQueen (writer/director) (2008)

2008–present

Duncan Jones (writer/director) (2009)
Chris Morris (writer/director) (2010)
Paddy Considine (director); Diarmid Scrimshaw (producer) (2011)
Bart Layton (director); Dimitri Doganis (producer) (2012)
Kieran Evans (writer/director) (2013)
Stephen Beresford (writer); David Livingstone (producer) (2014)
Naji Abu Nowar (writer/director); Rupert Lloyd (producer) (2015)
Babak Anvari (writer/director); Emily Leo, Oliver Roskill, Lucan Toh (producers) (2016)
Rungano Nyoni (writer/director); Emily Morgan (producer) (2017)
Michael Pearce (writer/director); Lauren Dark (producer) (2018)
Mark Jenkin (writer/director); Kate Byers, Lynn Waite (producers) (2019)
Remi Weekes (writer/director) (2020)
Jeymes Samuel (writer/director) (2021)
Charlotte Wells (writer/director) (2022)
Savanah Leaf (writer/director/producer); Shirley O'Connor (producer); Medb Riordan (producer) (2023)