John jencks biography

“80% of people who finish their first film, do not make a second.

The hippopotamus

There’s a variety of causes for this, but it’s at this stage that many people who aren’t white males drop out. I’m currently working with the East End Film Festival to set up a prize for filmmakers to fund the development of their second features.

I feel like I was incredibly lucky to make a second film and I want other people to get the chance.” Film director John Jencks

John Jencks is the director of the recently released – and very funny – feature film The Hippopotamus, an adaptation of the Stephen Fry novel.

It stars Roger Allam as the misanthropic, whiskey-sodden ex-poet Ted Wallace, who pitches up at his friends’ stately home to investigate a series of alleged miracles (with Fiona Shaw and Matthew Modine as the Lord and Lady of the house).