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Mark Cousins

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.

On screen

  • A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things
  • My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock
  • The Complete Story of Film
  • Cannes Uncut
  • The March on Rome
  • The Flowers the Fish and the Cockerel
  • The Storms of Jeremy Thomas
  • The Story of Film: A New Generation
  • The Story of Looking
  • Who Is Bill Rebane?
  • 40 Days to Learn Film
  • 50 Years of the Troubles: A Journey Through Film
  • Love Express. The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk
  • The Dream Palace: A People's History of Tyneside Cinema
  • The Eyes of Orson Welles
  • Looking for Charlie: Or, the Day the Clown Died
  • The Film That Buys the Cinema
  • Life May Be
  • A Story of Children and Film
  • Here Be Dragons
  • The First Movie
  • The New Ten Commandments
  • I Know Where I'm Going! Revisited

Behind the camera

  • The Story of Documentary Film: 1970s
  • A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things
  • Cinema Has Been My True Love: The Work and Times of Lynda Myles
  • The Complete Story of Film
  • My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock
  • The March on Rome
  • The Ballad of a Great Disordered Heart
  • The Story of Looking
  • The Story of Film: A New Generation
  • The Storms of Jeremy Thomas
  • Alexander's Film
  • 40 Days to Learn Film
  • The Eyes of Orson Welles
  • I Am Belfast
  • Stockholm, My Love
  • Atomic: Living in Dread and Promise
  • Life May Be
  • 6 Desires
  • The Film That Buys the Cinema
  • A Story of Children and Film
  • Here Be Dragons
  • Apollo: First War Cinema
  • 60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
  • The First Movie
  • The New Ten Commandments
  • On the Road with Kiarostami
  • I Know Where I'm Going! Revisited
  • Another Journey By Train

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