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.

Фільмографія

• 2024A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things — Self, Director, Screenplay, Director of Photography
• 2024The Hearth — Director
• 2023Cinema Has Been My True Love: The Work and Times of Lynda Myles — Director
• 2023My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock — Self (voice), Director, Writer
• 2023The Complete Story of Film — Narrator, Director
• 2022The Ballad of a Great Disordered Heart — Creator
• 2022The March on Rome — Self - Narrator (voice), Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Screenstory
• 2021Dear Paul Schrader, Thank You for Light Sleeper — Director
• 2021The Storms of Jeremy Thomas — Self, Director, Director of Photography, Writer
• 2021The Story of Film: A New Generation — Narrator, Director, Writer
• 2021The Story of Looking — Self, Director, Book, Screenplay
• 202040 Days to Learn Film — Self - Narrator (voice), Director, Editor, Writer
• 2020Alexander's Film — Director
• Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema — Director, Writer, Creator
• 2019You With Your Fresh Thoughts — Director
• 2018Storm in My Heart — Director
• 2018The Dream Palace: A People's History of Tyneside Cinema
• 2018The Eyes of Orson Welles — Self - Filmmaker / Narrator (voice), Director, Writer, Director of Photography
• 2016Antonia Bird: From EastEnders to Hollywood — Self, Executive Producer
• 2016Bigger Than The Shining — Director
• 2016Eisenstein on Lawrence — Writer, Director
• 2016I Am Belfast — Director, Writer
• 2016Stockholm, My Love — Director, Screenplay, Cinematography, Writer
• 2015Atomic: Living in Dread and Promise — Director
• 2015Your Eyes Flash Solemnly with Hate — Director, Writer
• 20146 Desires — Writer, Cinematography, Director
• 2014But Then Again, Too Few to Mention — Director
• 2014Life May Be — Self, Director, Writer
• 2014The Film That Buys the Cinema — Director
• 2014The Place — Director, Writer
• 2013A Story of Children and Film — Himself - Narrator (voice), Director, Writer
• 2013Apollo: First War Cinema — Writer
• 2013Here Be Dragons — Self, Director, Writer
• 2012What Is This Film Called Love? — Director, Writer
• 201160 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero — Director
• The Story of Film: An Odyssey — Presenter / Narrator, Director, Creator
• 2009The First Movie — Self – Documentarist, Director, Writer, Director of Photography
• 2008First Impressions — Director, Writer
• 2008The New Ten Commandments — Self, Director
• 2005Cinema Iran — Narrator, Director
• 2005Faith — Executive Producer
• 2005On the Road with Kiarostami — Director
• 2004The Atomists — Executive Producer
• 1997Pulp Fact — Director
• Scene by Scene — Self - Presenter, Director, Writer, Creator
• 1996I Remember IKWIG — Director
• 1996Ian Hamilton Finlay: In a Wee Way — Director
• 1994I Know Where I'm Going! Revisited — Self - Interviewer, Director
• 1993Another Journey By Train — Producer, Director
• 1990Dear Mr Gorbachev — Assistant Director
• 1990Gulf War: Scottish Eye — Director
• Viewpoint '90 — Assistant Director
• Moviedrome — Writer, Creator
• The Story of Documentary Film — Self – Narrator, Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Creator

Ток-шоу, премії та інші появи (8)

• 2026Joie de Vivre — Self
• 2023Cannes Uncut — Self
• 2021The Flowers the Fish and the Cockerel — Self
• 2021Who Is Bill Rebane? — Self
• 201950 Years of the Troubles: A Journey Through Film — Himself
• 2018Love Express. The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk — Self
• 2016Looking for Charlie: Or, the Day the Clown Died — Self - Interviewee
• 2011Cinema Is Everywhere — Self