Mark Cousins
Directing · Born 1965-05-03 · age 61 · Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
Mark Cousins is an Irish documentary filmmaker, film critic and programmer. A prolific producer and director, he is best known for his 15-hour documentary The Story of Film: An Odyssey" (2011). Cousins was appointed Honorary Professor of the University of Glasgow in 2013, as well as Honorary Doctor of Letters at both the University of Edinburgh in 2007 and University of Stirling in 2014. He is now a Patron of the Edinburgh International Film Festival, Cousins previously acted as both a programmer and director (1996-1997) of the festival. He is a Board Member of Michael Moore's Traverse City Film Festival and a Member of the Audentia Award jury at the 42nd Göteborg International Film Festival (GIFF) in 2019, as well as Member of the Official Competition jury at the 53rd Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 2018. In 2021, Cousins joined the jury of the BFI London Film Festival.
Titles
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
The Eyes of Orson Welles
A Story of Children and Film
I Am Belfast
Stockholm, My Love
The Story of Film: A New Generation
Atomic: Living in Dread and Promise
My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock
The First Movie
Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema
The March on Rome
60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
6 Desires
I Know Where I'm Going! Revisited
The Storms of Jeremy Thomas
What Is This Film Called Love?
The Story of Looking
Life May Be
The New Ten Commandments
Scene by Scene
Here Be Dragons
Cinema Iran
Your Eyes Flash Solemnly with Hate
Faith
The Complete Story of Film
Another Journey By Train
Antonia Bird: From EastEnders to Hollywood
A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things
Moviedrome
Eisenstein on Lawrence
Apollo: First War Cinema
40 Days to Learn Film
The Film That Buys the Cinema
The Dream Palace: A People's History of Tyneside Cinema
Cinema Has Been My True Love: The Work and Times of Lynda Myles
On the Road with Kiarostami
The Ballad of a Great Disordered Heart
Alexander's Film
The Story of Documentary Film: 1970s