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.
46 directing credits · 30 acting credits
Directing · 46
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
2011
Scene by Scene
1997
Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema
2020
60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
2011
The Eyes of Orson Welles
2018
My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock
2023
The New Ten Commandments
2008
The March on Rome
2022
I Know Where I'm Going! Revisited
1994
Cinema Iran
2005
The Film That Buys the Cinema
2014
The Story of Documentary Film
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Atomic: Living in Dread and Promise
2015
I Am Belfast
2016
A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things
2024
Storm in My Heart
2018
The Story of Film: A New Generation
2021
The Story of Looking
2021
The First Movie
2009
The Storms of Jeremy Thomas
2021
The Complete Story of Film
2023
The Story of Documentary Film: 1970s
2026
Life May Be
2014
Stockholm, My Love
2016
6 Desires
2014
Cinema Has Been My True Love: The Work and Times of Lynda Myles
2023
A Story of Children and Film
2013
First Impressions
2008
Eisenstein on Lawrence
2016
Another Journey By Train
1993
40 Days to Learn Film
2020
But Then Again, Too Few to Mention
2014
Here Be Dragons
2013
On the Road with Kiarostami
2005
Pulp Fact
1997
The Hearth
2024
Bigger Than The Shining
2016
Alexander's Film
2020
Gulf War: Scottish Eye
1990
What Is This Film Called Love?
2012
Ian Hamilton Finlay: In a Wee Way
1996
I Remember IKWIG
1996
Your Eyes Flash Solemnly with Hate
2015
The Place
2014
Dear Paul Schrader, Thank You for Light Sleeper
2021
You With Your Fresh Thoughts
2019
Acting · 30
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
2011
Scene by Scene
1997
Moviedrome
1988
The Eyes of Orson Welles
2018
Cannes Uncut
2023
My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock
2023
Antonia Bird: From EastEnders to Hollywood
2016
The New Ten Commandments
2008
The March on Rome
2022
Cinema Is Everywhere
2011
Love Express. The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk
2018
I Know Where I'm Going! Revisited
1994
The Dream Palace: A People's History of Tyneside Cinema
2018
Cinema Iran
2005
The Film That Buys the Cinema
2014
A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things
2024
The Story of Film: A New Generation
2021
The Story of Looking
2021
The First Movie
2009
The Storms of Jeremy Thomas
2021
The Complete Story of Film
2023
Looking for Charlie: Or, the Day the Clown Died
2016
Life May Be
2014
Who Is Bill Rebane?
2021
Joie de Vivre
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50 Years of the Troubles: A Journey Through Film
2019
A Story of Children and Film
2013
The Flowers the Fish and the Cockerel
2021
40 Days to Learn Film
2020
Here Be Dragons
2013