Jack Wake-Walker is a British film & theatre director, writer, and video artist. In 2014, Jack’s poetry film ‘Photon’ was nominated for Best Film at ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival before being showcased at Berlinale.
In 2018, Jack made the narrative short, ‘No Mileage’. It premiered at Huesca International Film Festival in June, and has since been shown and won awards at various international film festivals.
In September 2019, Jack attended Romanian screenwriting residency Pustnik with his feature project ‘Scarlett_123’. In August 2020, ‘Scarlett_123’ was selected for the Pitching Forum at FEST – New Directors | New Films Festival.
In October 2021 he took part in La Selva’s “Filming a strange planet” workshop with Werner Herzog in Lanzarote, where he directed the short film ‘The Resonance’. In May 2022 he completed his first feature length film, ‘Application Process’. Jack’s TV series, ‘Under the Gun’ – is currently in development with a Danish production company. Jack is co-founder of production company Worth The Wake Productions, based in the UK and Denmark.
Filmography
Vice Street – 2009 (documentary short)
Shad Thames Broken Wharf – 2010 (poetry film)
Crash – 2011 (video art)
The Debris Field – 2012 (poetry film)
The Man Who Prints Houses – 2012 (feature documentary)
Ten Thousand Things – 2013 (video art)
Photon – 2014 (poetry film)
Flyblown – 2015 (poetry film)
Turner – 2015 (poetry film)
Unsunblocked – 2015 (poetry film)
Of Comfort No Man Speak – 2015 (poetry film)
The Architect – 2015 (video art)
A Coat in Tarevci – 2016 (poetry film)
Bridges <Bosnia20> – 2016 (poetry film)
Punolo Jerdi Legi – 2016 (poetry film)
The Passion of Peter – 2016 (experimental)
No Mileage – 2018 (narrative short)
MASTER – 2018 (narrative short)
Hundegård – 2018 (narrative short)
Cuarto Cuatro – 2019 (narrative short)
Splinten – 2020 (narrative short)
The Resonance – 2021 (narrative short)
Black Disc – 2021 (narrative short)
Nardi – 2022 (narrative short)
What Will Be, Will Be – 2022 (narrative short)
I Remember When I was a Window – 2022 (experimental feature, in postproduction)
Application Process – 2022 (narrative feature, in postproduction)
About
Jack Wake-Walker is a British film & theatre director, writer, and video artist. In 2014, Jack’s poetry film ‘Photon’ was nominated for Best Film at ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival before being showcased at Berlinale.
In 2018, Jack made the narrative short, ‘No Mileage’. It premiered at Huesca International Film Festival in June, and has since been shown and won awards at various international film festivals.
In September 2019, Jack attended Romanian screenwriting residency Pustnik with his feature project ‘Scarlett_123’. In August 2020, ‘Scarlett_123’ was selected for the Pitching Forum at FEST – New Directors | New Films Festival.
In October 2021 he took part in La Selva’s “Filming a strange planet” workshop with Werner Herzog in Lanzarote, where he directed the short film ‘The Resonance’. In May 2022 he completed his first feature length film, ‘Application Process’. Jack’s TV series, ‘Under the Gun’ – is currently in development with a Danish production company. Jack is co-founder of production company Worth The Wake Productions, based in the UK and Denmark.
Filmography
Vice Street – 2009 (documentary short)
Shad Thames Broken Wharf – 2010 (poetry film)
Crash – 2011 (video art)
The Debris Field – 2012 (poetry film)
The Man Who Prints Houses – 2012 (feature documentary)
Ten Thousand Things – 2013 (video art)
Photon – 2014 (poetry film)
Flyblown – 2015 (poetry film)
Turner – 2015 (poetry film)
Unsunblocked – 2015 (poetry film)
Of Comfort No Man Speak – 2015 (poetry film)
The Architect – 2015 (video art)
A Coat in Tarevci – 2016 (poetry film)
Bridges <Bosnia20> – 2016 (poetry film)
Punolo Jerdi Legi – 2016 (poetry film)
The Passion of Peter – 2016 (experimental)
No Mileage – 2018 (narrative short)
MASTER – 2018 (narrative short)
Hundegård – 2018 (narrative short)
Cuarto Cuatro – 2019 (narrative short)
Splinten – 2020 (narrative short)
The Resonance – 2021 (narrative short)
Black Disc – 2021 (narrative short)
Nardi – 2022 (narrative short)
What Will Be, Will Be – 2022 (narrative short)
I Remember When I was a Window – 2022 (experimental feature, in postproduction)
Application Process – 2022 (narrative feature, in postproduction)