Film
Bait + live score
- Director
- Mark Jenkin
- Certificate
- 15
- Running Time
- 89 mins
This first feature from Totterdown’s Early Day Films, founded by BAFTA winning producers Kate Byers and Linn Waite, got off to a flying start by becoming the only UK film selected for the Berlinale Forum back in February 2019. Since then, Bait has gone on to attract further acclaim, including a four-star review in The Guardian and a rave review in Little White Lies (“One of the most thrillingly original British films in years”). It went on to win the BAFTA Award for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer.
Hand-crafted using a 1976 Bolex camera and 16mm Kodak monochrome film stock, Mark Jenkin’s film is a narratively unconventional story of structural change in a picturesque coastal village in Cornwall, centred on a fisherman who’s fallen out with his brother on whether the family boat should be used for fishing or ferrying day-trippers about.
The Watershed’s screening includes a new live score by Cornish/Welsh musician Gwenno Saunders alongside composer Georgia Ellery from post-rock band Black Country New Road. This is part of Filmic 20.
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