Mark Cousins
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 (29 titles)
7.5MovieA Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things
Self · 2024
8.0MovieThe Complete Story of Film
Narrator · 2023
6.7MovieMy Name Is Alfred Hitchcock
Self (voice) · 2023
6.2MovieCannes Uncut
Self · 2023
6.5MovieThe March on Rome
Self - Narrator (voice) · 2022
7.4MovieThe Story of Film: A New Generation
Narrator · 2021
5.5MovieThe Storms of Jeremy Thomas
Self · 2021
MovieThe Flowers the Fish and the Cockerel
Self · 2021
5.6MovieThe Story of Looking
Self · 2021
5.7MovieWho Is Bill Rebane?
Self · 2021
5.0Movie40 Days to Learn Film
Self - Narrator (voice) · 2020
Movie50 Years of the Troubles: A Journey Through Film
Himself · 2019
7.0MovieThe Eyes of Orson Welles
Self - Filmmaker / Narrator (voice) · 2018
4.0MovieLove Express. The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk
Self · 2018
MovieThe Dream Palace: A People's History of Tyneside Cinema
2018
Antonia Bird: From EastEnders to Hollywood
Self · 2016
MovieLooking for Charlie: Or, the Day the Clown Died
Self - Interviewee · 2016
MovieThe Film That Buys the Cinema
2014
5.6MovieLife May Be
Self · 2014
5.7MovieHere Be Dragons
Self · 2013
7.1MovieA Story of Children and Film
Himself - Narrator (voice) · 2013
Cinema Is Everywhere
Self · 2011
7.7ShowThe Story of Film: An Odyssey
Presenter / Narrator · 2011
7.3MovieThe First Movie
Self – Documentarist · 2009
8.7MovieThe New Ten Commandments
Self · 2008
Cinema Iran
Narrator · 2005
6.0ShowScene by Scene
Self - Presenter · 1997
6.5MovieI Know Where I'm Going! Revisited
Self - Interviewer · 1994
6.0ShowMoviedrome
1988