Glorious Failures | with BAFTA award-winning filmmaker Mark Jenkin

Mark Jenkin is the filmmaker behind BAFTA award-winning film Bait, and Enys Men. Mark is also Falmouth University's Distinguished Professor of Film Practice. We recently sat down with him to talk about the f word - failure.

My name's Mark Jenkin, I'm a filmmaker and I'm also the Distinguished Professor of Film Practice here at Falmouth University.

I was over in L.A. in the spring and I was meeting with a manager in Hollywood, and he said to me, "how does it feel to be successful so late in your life?"

He was basically saying "where have you been all this time?", and I was like, well, I've been working and I've been experimenting and I've been going back to the drawing board and I've been starting again.

I've never allowed myself to think that any failure is anything other than part of the journey to where I'm destined to be.

And I've got to this point where I'm working in the way that I want to work without compromise. And I'm very lucky that I've made work that has connected with an audience.

But that's just the process. I've never allowed myself to think that any failure is anything other than part of the journey to where I'm destined to be.

Universities should be creating inspirational people who other people follow. If you're going to be that person, and you're going to be that maverick, and you're going to be that leader, then you have to be experimenting.

If you're creating innovative ways of working, especially within an art form like film that is so young, if we're not failing every day, then we're not achieving anything.

If you stop learning from your failure, or if you stop learning from the results of your experiments, then that's the only real failure.

Find the time, space and support to become a filmmaking maverick at Falmouth's School of Film & Television