Mark Cousins
Directing • Born 1965-05-03
Biography
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
30 credits
I Know Where I'm Going! Revisited
Movie • 1994
Self - Interviewer
The Flowers the Fish and the Cockerel
Movie • 2021
Self
The Storms of Jeremy Thomas
Movie • 2021
Self
The Story of Film: A New Generation
Movie • 2021
Narrator
My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock
Movie • 2023
Self (voice)
The First Movie
Movie • 2009
Self – Documentarist
The March on Rome
Movie • 2022
Self - Narrator (voice)
A Story of Children and Film
Movie • 2013
Himself - Narrator (voice)
The Complete Story of Film
Movie • 2023
Narrator
Love Express. The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk
Movie • 2018
Self
The Film That Buys the Cinema
Movie • 2014
Cinema Is Everywhere
Movie • 2011
Self
Antonia Bird: From EastEnders to Hollywood
Movie • 2016
Self
Cannes Uncut
Movie • 2023
Self
Looking for Charlie: Or, the Day the Clown Died
Movie • 2016
Self - Interviewee
The Dream Palace: A People's History of Tyneside Cinema
Movie • 2018
The Eyes of Orson Welles
Movie • 2018
Self - Filmmaker / Narrator (voice)
50 Years of the Troubles: A Journey Through Film
Movie • 2019
Himself
40 Days to Learn Film
Movie • 2020
Self - Narrator (voice)
Cinema Iran
Movie • 2005
Narrator
The Story of Looking
Movie • 2021
Self
Who Is Bill Rebane?
Movie • 2021
Self
Joie de Vivre
Movie
Self
The New Ten Commandments
Movie • 2008
Self
Life May Be
Movie • 2014
Self
A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things
Movie • 2024
Self
Here Be Dragons
Movie • 2013
Self
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
TV • 2011
Presenter / Narrator
Moviedrome
TV • 1988
Scene by Scene
TV • 1997
Self - Presenter