Mark Cousins

Birthday: 1965-05-03
Birthplace: Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
Gender: Male

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.

Credits

Year Title
2026-05-15 The Story of Documentary Film: 1970s
2024-12-12 The Hearth
2024-10-18 A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things
2023-09-01 Cinema Has Been My True Love: The Work and Times of Lynda Myles
2023-08-29 The Complete Story of Film
2023-07-21 My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock
2022-10-20 The March on Rome
2021-12-17 The Story of Film: A New Generation
2021-12-10 The Storms of Jeremy Thomas
2021-09-17 The Story of Looking
2021-01-25 Dear Paul Schrader, Thank You for Light Sleeper
2020-04-10 40 Days to Learn Film
2020-03-25 Alexander's Film
2019-11-09 You With Your Fresh Thoughts
2018-08-17 The Eyes of Orson Welles
2018-02-01 Storm in My Heart
2016-11-16 Stockholm, My Love
2016-04-08 I Am Belfast
2016-02-15 Eisenstein on Lawrence
2016-02-03 Bigger Than The Shining
2015-09-01 Your Eyes Flash Solemnly with Hate
2015-08-08 Atomic: Living in Dread and Promise
2014-10-16 6 Desires
2014-10-14 The Film That Buys the Cinema
2014-09-06 The Place
2014-06-21 Life May Be
2014-01-01 But Then Again, Too Few to Mention
2013-08-30 Here Be Dragons
2013-05-17 A Story of Children and Film
2012-06-26 What Is This Film Called Love?
2011-12-22 60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
2009-12-14 The First Movie
2008-09-14 First Impressions
2008-01-02 The New Ten Commandments
2005-05-04 Cinema Iran
2005-05-01 On the Road with Kiarostami
1997-09-23 Pulp Fact
1996-07-15 I Remember IKWIG
1996-06-01 Ian Hamilton Finlay: In a Wee Way
1994-02-22 I Know Where I'm Going! Revisited
1993-01-28 Another Journey By Train
1990-09-09 Gulf War: Scottish Eye