Mark Cousins
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.
Also Known As
Movie Appearances
I Know Where I'm Going! Revisited
as Self - Interviewer
1994
The Flowers the Fish and the Cockerel
as Self
2021
The Storms of Jeremy Thomas
as Self
2021
The Story of Film: A New Generation
as Narrator
2021
My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock
as Self (voice)
2023
The First Movie
as Self – Documentarist
2009
The March on Rome
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2022
A Story of Children and Film
as Himself - Narrator (voice)
2013
The Complete Story of Film
as Narrator
2023
Love Express. The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk
as Self
2018
The Film That Buys the Cinema
2014
Cinema Is Everywhere
as Self
2011
Antonia Bird: From EastEnders to Hollywood
as Self
2016
Cannes Uncut
as Self
2023
Looking for Charlie: Or, the Day the Clown Died
as Self - Interviewee
2016
The Dream Palace: A People's History of Tyneside Cinema
2018
The Eyes of Orson Welles
as Self - Filmmaker / Narrator (voice)
2018
50 Years of the Troubles: A Journey Through Film
as Himself
2019
40 Days to Learn Film
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2020
Cinema Iran
as Narrator
2005
