Q&A with director Mark Jenkin moderated by Alex Ross Perry

Monday, Jun. 22 2026, 7:15

• Mark Jenkin’s breakout film, Bait, was hailed by Empire Magazine as “A rare find that is a truly original feature by a British director” and won the Outstanding Debut BAFTA in 2020. It went on to collect 7 major international awards. Mark Kermode, writing in The Observer, described it as “One of the defining British films of the decade”. His follow-up, Bosena produced and Film4 backed Enys Men, premiered at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight in 2022 and was picked up by NEON. Sight and Sound described the film as “A revelatory experience”, Tim Robey writing in the Daily Telegraph called it “Lo-fi folk horror heaven” while Peter Bradshaw in The Guardian found it, “Supremely Disquieting”. Mark was awarded a BIFA in 2023 for his sound design on the film. He has just completed his new film Rose of Nevada starring BAFTA nominees George MacKay (1917) and Callum Turner (Masters of the Air). His prolific, critically acclaimed short film output includes I Saw the Face of God in the Jet Wash (2025), A Dog Called Discord (2023) commissioned by the BFI to open the Film on Film Festival, Vertical Shapes in a Horizontal Landscape (2018), and mid-length Bronco's House (2014). “No one is making films like Mark Jenkin” - Awards Watch.
• Alex Ross Perry was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania in 1984. He attended the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and worked at Kim’s Video in Manhattan. He is the director of the films The Color Wheel, Listen Up Philip, Queen of Earth, Golden Exits, Her Smell, Ghost: Rite Here Rite Now, and the writer of Disney’s Christopher Robin. He has directed music videos for Pavement, Ghost, Kim Gordon, Sleigh Bells, and many more. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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