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.
Known For
Credits
- 2023 · The Complete Story of Film as Narrator
- 2023 · My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock as Self (voice)
- 2023 · Cannes Uncut as Self
- 2022 · The March on Rome as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2021 · The Story of Film: A New Generation as Narrator
- 2021 · The Storms of Jeremy Thomas as Self
- 2021 · The Flowers the Fish and the Cockerel as Himself
- 2021 · The Story of Looking as Self
- 2021 · Who Is Bill Rebane? as Self
- 2020 · 40 Days to Learn Film as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2019 · 50 Years of the Troubles: A Journey Through Film as Himself
- 2018 · The Eyes of Orson Welles as Self - Filmmaker / Narrator (voice)
- 2018 · Love Express. The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk as Self
- 2018 · The Dream Palace: A People's History of Tyneside Cinema as
- 2016 · Antonia Bird: From EastEnders to Hollywood as Self
- 2016 · Looking for Charlie: Or, the Day the Clown Died as Self - Interviewee
- 2014 · The Film That Buys the Cinema as
- 2013 · A Story of Children and Film as Himself - Narrator (voice)
- 2011 · Cinema Is Everywhere as Self
- 2011 · The Story of Film: An Odyssey as Presenter / Narrator
- 2009 · The First Movie as Self – Documentarist
- 2005 · Cinema Iran as Narrator
- 1997 · Scene by Scene as Self - Presenter
- 1994 · I Know Where I'm Going! Revisited as Self - Interviewer
- 1988 · Moviedrome as
- Future · Bertolucci on Bertolucci as Self