
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.

Cannes Uncut

Joie de Vivre. Notes, Thoughts, Words, Reflections, Faces, Visions, Around Bernardo Bertolucci and the Cinephilia of the 20th Century That Is No More

The Eyes of Orson Welles

I Know Where I'm Going! Revisited

My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock

The Film That Buys the Cinema

The New Ten Commandments

The Storms of Jeremy Thomas

Who Is Bill Rebane?

The Dream Palace: A People's History of Tyneside Cinema

Love Express. The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk

A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things

The March on Rome

The Story of Film: A New Generation

Looking for Charlie: Or, the Day the Clown Died



