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This article is about the English filmmaker. For people with similar names, see Mark Jenkins.

Mark Jenkin (born 1976)[2] is a director, editor, screenwriter, cinematographer and producer best known for 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, an 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

Feature films

Year Title Notes
2002 Golden Burn Also editor
2004 The Rabbit
2007 The Midnight Drives
2011 Happy Christmas [11]
2019 Bait Also editor
2022 Enys Men
2025 Rose of Nevada

Short films

  • 2003: The Man Who Needed a Traffic Light – also writer
  • 2009: Aurora’s Kiss – also writer
  • 2012: Last Post[12]
  • 2013: Cape Cornwall Calling / All the White Horses – also writer[13]
  • 2015: Bronco’s House – also writer
  • 2016: Enough to Fill Up an Egg Cup – also writer/director of photography
  • 2016: Dear Marianne – also writer[14]
  • 2016: The Essential Cornishman – also writer
  • 2017: The Road to Zennor – also writer[15]
  • 2017: Tomato – also writer
  • 2018: Vertical Shapes in a Horizontal Landscape – also writer[16]
  • 2018 David Bowie Is Dead – also writer/editor
  • 2019: Hard, Cracked the Wind[17]
  • 2020: 29 Hour Long Birthday – also writer[18]

Other credits

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

References

  1. ^ “‘Enys Men’: Director Mark Jenkin Talks ‘Bait,’ Robert Bresson & His Upcoming Time Travel Movie”. Archived from the original on 30 March 2023. Retrieved 29 December 2025.
  2. ^ Rogers, Jude (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.
  3. ^ Ferguson, Emma (3 February 2020). “BAFTA for Cornish film Bait written by Mark Jenkin”. Falmouth Packet. Retrieved 27 February 2020.
  4. ^ Snapes, Laura (23 August 2019). “Rocking the boat: how Cornish class war inspired a masterpiece”. The Guardian. Retrieved 7 April 2024.
  5. ^ “Celtic media festival winners 1980 – 2010” (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 July 2011. Retrieved 20 March 2013.
  6. ^ “Nighttime screening of The Midnight Drives”. West Briton.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  7. ^ Trewhela, Lee (20 August 2019). “Stunning film shows there’s more to Cornwall than Poldark”. cornwalllive. Retrieved 27 February 2020.
  8. ^ Emma Ferguson (10 August 2020). “BAFTA winner Mark Jenkin among new bards of Cornwall 2020”. Falmouth Packet. Retrieved 15 January 2023.
  9. ^ Moore, Sam (27 January 2022). “Listen to Radiohead side project the Smile’s new single ‘The Smoke’“. NME. Retrieved 27 January 2022.
  10. ^ Minsker, Evan (17 March 2022). “The Smile share video for new song ‘Skrting on the Surface’“. Pitchfork. Retrieved 17 March 2022.
  11. ^ Farley, Emma (18 October 2011). “Happy Christmas movie – a dysfunctional X-mas Eve in West Cornwall”. D&CFilm. Retrieved 8 April 2023.
  12. ^ Jenkin, Mark (21 March 2012), Last Post (2009), retrieved 8 April 2023
  13. ^ Jenkin, Mark (31 December 2012), cape cornwall calling / all the white horses (2013), retrieved 8 April 2023
  14. ^ Jenkin, Mark (7 October 2016), Dear Marianne (clip), retrieved 8 April 2023
  15. ^ Jenkin, Mark (23 May 2017), The Road to Zennor (clip), retrieved 8 April 2023
  16. ^ Vertical Shapes in a Horizontal Landscape, retrieved 8 April 2023
  17. ^ “Hard Cracked The Wind”. www.leedsfilm.com. Retrieved 8 April 2023.
  18. ^ “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.

Further reading

  • Sight & Sound; May 2026; pp. 30-39 “Out of Time”