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
The Complete Story of Film
Narrator
2023
My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock
Self (voice)
2023
Cannes Uncut
Self
2023
The March on Rome
Self - Narrator (voice)
2022
The Story of Film: A New Generation
Narrator
2021
The Storms of Jeremy Thomas
Self
2021
The Flowers the Fish and the Cockerel
Himself
2021
The Story of Looking
Self
2021
Who Is Bill Rebane?
Self
2021
40 Days to Learn Film
Self - Narrator (voice)
2020
50 Years of the Troubles: A Journey Through Film
Himself
2019
The Eyes of Orson Welles
Self - Filmmaker / Narrator (voice)
2018
Love Express. The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk
Self
2018
The Dream Palace: A People's History of Tyneside Cinema
2018
Antonia Bird: From EastEnders to Hollywood
Self
2016
Looking for Charlie: Or, the Day the Clown Died
Self - Interviewee
2016
The Film That Buys the Cinema
2014
Life May Be
Self
2014
A Story of Children and Film
Himself - Narrator (voice)
2013
Cinema Is Everywhere
Self
2011
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
Presenter / Narrator · (15 episodes)
2011
The First Movie
Self – Documentarist
2009
The New Ten Commandments
Self
2008
Cinema Iran
Narrator
2005
Scene by Scene
Self - Presenter · (24 episodes)
1997
I Know Where I'm Going! Revisited
Self - Interviewer
1994
Joie de vivre
Self
Moviedrome
(84 episodes)
1988