
Directing
Mark Jenkin
Born
1976-03-28 (50)
Place of birth
Newlyn, United Kingdom
Known for
Directing
Credits
51 titles
Mark Jenkin (born 28 March 1976; Newlyn) is a British (Cornish) 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. Jenkin won the Frank Copplestone First Time Director Award at The Celtic Film & Television Festival in 2002 for his debut film Golden Burn. 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, f…
Known for
5.4The people, places and stories making news in the British countryside.
Countryfile
1988
6.0When a fishing boat, the Rose of Nevada, lost with all hands 30 years ago, mysteriously reappears in the old harbour of a forgotten Cornish village, for those who remember, it’s surely a sign. The boat must go out to sea again and maybe then the luck of the devastated village will turn. Young father Nick and enigmatic newcomer Liam join captain Murgey, and they head to sea. But when they return, satisfied with their haul, something is amiss – they’ve slipped back in time, and the villagers greet them as if they are the original crew.
Rose of Nevada
2026
6.6Martin Ward is a cove fisherman, without a boat. His brother Steven has repurposed their father’s vessel as a tourist tripper, driving a wedge between the brothers. With their childhood home now a getaway for London money, Martin is displaced to the estate above the picturesque harbour. As his struggle to restore the family to their traditional place creates increasing friction with tourists and locals alike, a tragedy at the heart of the family changes his world.
Bait
2019
A disturbed woman takes refuge in a decaying abandoned building with her children. When a mysterious man and woman enter her gloomy territory she realises her children's lives are in danger and will stop and nothing to protect them. But is everything what it seems?
The Lark
2007
5.5A wildlife volunteer on an uninhabited island off the British coast descends into a terrifying madness that challenges her grip on reality and pushes her into a living nightmare.
Enys Men
2023
9.0Water, woods, rock, and drifted stream. Storms overhead, fields of salt water, wicked moor. Lightning strokes and standing stones, ground hard as iron and oak, granite swallowing tin and slate. This documentary special feature examines Hammer Films use of Cornwall as a setting and location for its films, exploring the "new weird Britain" of contemporary Cornish folk horror with filmmakers, playwrights, and historians, and drawing on creative work from the region.
The Land Demands Blood
2026
Film credits
2020s · 4 titles
9.0Water, woods, rock, and drifted stream. Storms overhead, fields of salt water, wicked moor. Lightning strokes and standing stones, ground hard as iron and oak, granite swallowing tin and slate. This documentary special feature examines Hammer Films use of Cornwall as a setting and location for its films, exploring the "new weird Britain" of contemporary Cornish folk horror with filmmakers, playwrights, and historians, and drawing on creative work from the region.
The Land Demands Blood
2026
6.5Mark Jenkin explores his fascination with the magic of film and its life-giving properties in this brand new short film, commissioned by the BFI to mark the Film on Film Festival.
A Dog Called Discord
2023
NROn-set documentary following the making of Mark Jenkin's film 'Rose of Nevada'
The Jenkin Way
2026
4.5“I love films that foreground the fact that you are watching film,” states British director Mark Jenkin, who in his film diary returns, among others, to the Cornwall locations which gave rise to his mesmeric Enys Men. The series of Super8 shots taken from his travels and the comprehensive voice-overs make for a fascinating mosaic of encounters, observations, formative quotations from cinematic and other works, and also possible fantasies. Here, Jenkin demonstrates his ability to give his films an appealing timeless quality and to connect the familiar with the curiously enigmatic. One hundred and one interesting facts from the filmmaker’s diary. (Viktor Palák)
I Saw the Face of God in the Jet Wash
2025
2010s · 3 titles
6.5A Cornishman's travels in Ireland, through Wexford, Waterford and Cork in search of the familiar.
Dear Marianne
2016
NRIn the studio with Mark Jenkin
Time, Temperature, Agitation
2014
6.5Started in 1993, finished in 2018. "David Bowie Is Dead" is a road movie in and out of london.
David Bowie Is Dead
2018
2000s · 3 titles
A disturbed woman takes refuge in a decaying abandoned building with her children. When a mysterious man and woman enter her gloomy territory she realises her children's lives are in danger and will stop and nothing to protect them. But is everything what it seems?
The Lark
2007
NRA digital poem made by strangers who travel the surface of the world to new continents.
New Reed
2004
NRSeven hours and a million miles away from his old life in Kent, Chris Thornton finds himself plunged into the restless local community. Hitching up with two brothers and the son of a local druid, Chris is taken on a trail of discovery and incident, culminating in an event that will irrevocably alter the lives of all four friends.
Golden Burn
2001
Series credits
Behind the camera
6.0When a fishing boat, the Rose of Nevada, lost with all hands 30 years ago, mysteriously reappears in the old harbour of a forgotten Cornish village, for those who remember, it’s surely a sign. The boat must go out to sea again and maybe then the luck of the devastated village will turn. Young father Nick and enigmatic newcomer Liam join captain Murgey, and they head to sea. But when they return, satisfied with their haul, something is amiss – they’ve slipped back in time, and the villagers greet them as if they are the original crew.
Rose of Nevada
2026
6.0When a fishing boat, the Rose of Nevada, lost with all hands 30 years ago, mysteriously reappears in the old harbour of a forgotten Cornish village, for those who remember, it’s surely a sign. The boat must go out to sea again and maybe then the luck of the devastated village will turn. Young father Nick and enigmatic newcomer Liam join captain Murgey, and they head to sea. But when they return, satisfied with their haul, something is amiss – they’ve slipped back in time, and the villagers greet them as if they are the original crew.
Rose of Nevada
2026
6.6Martin Ward is a cove fisherman, without a boat. His brother Steven has repurposed their father’s vessel as a tourist tripper, driving a wedge between the brothers. With their childhood home now a getaway for London money, Martin is displaced to the estate above the picturesque harbour. As his struggle to restore the family to their traditional place creates increasing friction with tourists and locals alike, a tragedy at the heart of the family changes his world.
Bait
2019
6.6Martin Ward is a cove fisherman, without a boat. His brother Steven has repurposed their father’s vessel as a tourist tripper, driving a wedge between the brothers. With their childhood home now a getaway for London money, Martin is displaced to the estate above the picturesque harbour. As his struggle to restore the family to their traditional place creates increasing friction with tourists and locals alike, a tragedy at the heart of the family changes his world.
Bait
2019
5.5A wildlife volunteer on an uninhabited island off the British coast descends into a terrifying madness that challenges her grip on reality and pushes her into a living nightmare.
Enys Men
2023
5.5A wildlife volunteer on an uninhabited island off the British coast descends into a terrifying madness that challenges her grip on reality and pushes her into a living nightmare.
Enys Men
2023
NRLiving in a remote coastal village and with no cash two local friends stumble across two holidaymakers who mysteriously vanish along with a fishing boat and the local hotel-owner's prize winning rabbit.
The Rabbit
2004
NRLiving in a remote coastal village and with no cash two local friends stumble across two holidaymakers who mysteriously vanish along with a fishing boat and the local hotel-owner's prize winning rabbit.
The Rabbit
2004
NRLiving in a remote coastal village and with no cash two local friends stumble across two holidaymakers who mysteriously vanish along with a fishing boat and the local hotel-owner's prize winning rabbit.
The Rabbit
2004
6.5A Cornishman's travels in Ireland, through Wexford, Waterford and Cork in search of the familiar.
Dear Marianne
2016
NRAn interwoven seaside hymn to gift wrapped promises and unwanted presence.
Happy Christmas
2011
NRAn interwoven seaside hymn to gift wrapped promises and unwanted presence.
Happy Christmas
2011
7.0A poet is driven to complete a poem within an old writing case by the ghost of the last owner.
Hard, Cracked the Wind
2019
NRA digital poem made by strangers who travel the surface of the world to new continents.
New Reed
2004
5.0No synopsis available yet.
Another Horizon
2008
5.0No synopsis available yet.
Another Horizon
2008
NRSeven hours and a million miles away from his old life in Kent, Chris Thornton finds himself plunged into the restless local community. Hitching up with two brothers and the son of a local druid, Chris is taken on a trail of discovery and incident, culminating in an event that will irrevocably alter the lives of all four friends.
Golden Burn
2001
NRSeven hours and a million miles away from his old life in Kent, Chris Thornton finds himself plunged into the restless local community. Hitching up with two brothers and the son of a local druid, Chris is taken on a trail of discovery and incident, culminating in an event that will irrevocably alter the lives of all four friends.
Golden Burn
2001
NRSeven hours and a million miles away from his old life in Kent, Chris Thornton finds himself plunged into the restless local community. Hitching up with two brothers and the son of a local druid, Chris is taken on a trail of discovery and incident, culminating in an event that will irrevocably alter the lives of all four friends.
Golden Burn
2001
No synopsis available yet.
Last Post
2009
No synopsis available yet.
Last Post
2009
6.5Mark Jenkin explores his fascination with the magic of film and its life-giving properties in this brand new short film, commissioned by the BFI to mark the Film on Film Festival.
A Dog Called Discord
2023
6.5Mark Jenkin explores his fascination with the magic of film and its life-giving properties in this brand new short film, commissioned by the BFI to mark the Film on Film Festival.
A Dog Called Discord
2023
No synopsis available yet.
The Source
2011
No synopsis available yet.
Talking Coasts
2005
NRA film shot on Super 8 with an entirely Stylophone produced score.
Porth Trethek
2020
No synopsis available yet.
Dougie & Jimmy
2016
No synopsis available yet.
Paris 14
2013
No synopsis available yet.
Riviera
2010
NRWords by Callum Mitchell Soundscape by Rick Williams 16mm
No.10
2015
No synopsis available yet.
City
2003
8.0One of the Bait director’s earliest shorts is a nightmarish vision of life spent behind the wheel, where time melts and car becomes prison. Despite its low budget, The Man Who Needed A Traffic Light sews all the seeds for Bait, and shows the vision in progress of one of Britain’s most exciting filmmakers.
The Man Who Needed A Traffic Light
2003
8.0One of the Bait director’s earliest shorts is a nightmarish vision of life spent behind the wheel, where time melts and car becomes prison. Despite its low budget, The Man Who Needed A Traffic Light sews all the seeds for Bait, and shows the vision in progress of one of Britain’s most exciting filmmakers.
The Man Who Needed A Traffic Light
2003
No synopsis available yet.
Cornish Wrestling
2012
No synopsis available yet.
Skilly
2014
No synopsis available yet.
Sandy Cove
2015
Animation using 4,500 still images
Newlyn Light
2015
No synopsis available yet.
John & Me
2009
NRA divorcee takes his children on a trip to Cornwall.
The Midnight Drives
2007
NRA divorcee takes his children on a trip to Cornwall.
The Midnight Drives
2007
