You are listening to the Next Best Picture podcast, and this is Alyssa Christian's interview with the director and writer for Ennis' name, Mark Jenkins.

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I'm Mark for speaking with me today.

I'm Alyssa from the Next Best Picture podcast.

I'm excited to talk to you about your film.

And it's Maine. I think I said that right. I believe I said that right. Yeah. It's yeah.

Maine rather than men. It's spelled men, pronounced Maine because it's, yeah, Cornish word for stone.

Okay. Cool. So I was curious if you could tell me what was the inspiration behind the film

and your decision to make it into a sort of folk horror genre type? Yeah, well, I mean,

talking to stones, the starting point was the standing stone really, was an idea to have a,

to have to work on a genre film which was a

which was about well not about but visually at least at the center of the film have this standing

stone which was something that I was haunted by as a as a child the idea of standing stones here

where we are in the like the far west of the british isles in in west

cornwall there's standing stones everywhere and we were always told the sort of christian version of

what the standing stones represented which were sinners who had been turned to stone as a punishment

so as as a child when you're sort of taught that or told that, it kind of tends to

stay with you. So that was the starting point for me was to to create a film that was a horror

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