Mark Cousins
Directing
Born May 3, 1965 in 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.
Filmography
The Story of Documentary Film: 1970s
A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things
Self
Cinema Has Been My True Love: The Work and Times of Lynda Myles
The Complete Story of Film
Narrator
My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock
Self (voice)
Cannes Uncut
Self
The March on Rome
Self - Narrator (voice)
The Ballad of a Great Disordered Heart
The Story of Film: A New Generation
Narrator
The Storms of Jeremy Thomas
Self
The Flowers the Fish and the Cockerel
Self
The Story of Looking
Self
Who Is Bill Rebane?
Self
Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema
40 Days to Learn Film
Self - Narrator (voice)
Alexander's Film
50 Years of the Troubles: A Journey Through Film
Himself
The Eyes of Orson Welles
Self - Filmmaker / Narrator (voice)
Love Express. The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk
Self
The Dream Palace: A People's History of Tyneside Cinema
Stockholm, My Love
I Am Belfast
Looking for Charlie: Or, the Day the Clown Died
Self - Interviewee
Atomic: Living in Dread and Promise
6 Desires
The Film That Buys the Cinema
Life May Be
Self
Apollo: First War Cinema
Here Be Dragons
Self
A Story of Children and Film
Himself - Narrator (voice)
60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
Presenter / Narrator
The First Movie
Self – Documentarist
The New Ten Commandments
Self
On the Road with Kiarostami
Faith
Scene by Scene
Self - Presenter
I Know Where I'm Going! Revisited
Self - Interviewer
Another Journey By Train
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