Bait (2019 film)

Bait
Theatrical release poster
Directed byMark Jenkin
Written byMark Jenkin
Produced by
  • Kate Byers
  • Linn Waite
Starring
CinematographyMark Jenkin
Edited byMark Jenkin
Music byMark Jenkin
Production
company
Early Day Films
Distributed byBFI Films
Release date
  • 30 August 2019 (2019-08-30)
Running time
89 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Bait is a 2019 British drama film written, directed, shot, edited, and scored by Mark Jenkin. It stars Edward Rowe as a struggling fisherman in a Cornish fishing village, and deals with rising tensions between the locals and tourists. Set against a backdrop of second homes, short-term lets, and gentrification, it has been interpreted as a critique of precarity.