Mark Jenkin

Mark grew up in Cornwall and started making films at the age of 15. His first job was as Production Assistant in the animation department for the ground breaking BBC Television series Walking with Dinosaurs.

At the same time he wrote his first mini feature screenplay Golden Burn, raised the finance and shot the film in Cornwall over two weeks in the summer of 1999. The film was completed in late 2001 and selected for The Celtic Film & Television Festival in 2002 where Mark received the First Time Director Award. The film went on to screen in festivals all over Europe.

In March 2002 Mark returned to Cornwall and his subsequent credits include:

The Man Who Needed a Traffic Light (2003) Director's 'Pick of the Festival' at Encounters 2003;The Midnight Drives (2007) The film premiered at the BFI South Bank as part of the London UK Film Focus and was in competition at Dinard 2007; Auroraʼs Kiss (2009) This experimental film in 13 chapters was awarded the Jury Prize at the Cornwall International Film Festival 2009 and has subsequently screened in galleries in the UK and across mainland Europe and Happy Christmas (2012) The film previewed at Dinard 2011 and played at festivals across Europe.

Working in collaboration with Denzil Monk of Western Light Pictures Mark has recently completed his latest film, Bronco's House. Having raised the finance privately, he shot the film on 16mm on a clockworkBolex, and hand-processed the 6,000ft of black and white negative in his studio using instant coffee.

In October 2014 Mark won the Nick Darke Award for Old Iron and is currently developing a new feature film, Flowtide, with producers Kate Byers & Linn Waite at Early Day Films.

He is a Royal Television Society Award Winner (My Name is Zac, 2007) and has also produced film elements for the West End, Kneehigh Theatre and Wild Works.

He is an associate lecturer in Film and Moving Image at Falmouth University and is the author of the SLDG13 Film Manifesto which promotes the aesthetic and practical benefits of handmade celluloid work.

His studio is within the Newlyn School of Art and as a member of the prestigious Newlyn Society of Artists his short-form work has been exhibited in galleries in the UK & on mainland Europe.