Directing · Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK · Born May 3, 1965
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.
MovieA Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things
2024
as Self
MovieThe Complete Story of Film
2023
as Narrator
MovieMy Name Is Alfred Hitchcock
2023
as Self (voice)
MovieCannes Uncut
2023
as Self
MovieThe March on Rome
2022
as Self - Narrator (voice)
MovieThe Story of Film: A New Generation
2021
as Narrator
MovieThe Storms of Jeremy Thomas
2021
as Self
MovieThe Flowers the Fish and the Cockerel
2021
as Self
MovieThe Story of Looking
2021
as Self
MovieWho Is Bill Rebane?
2021
as Self
Movie40 Days to Learn Film
2020
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Movie50 Years of the Troubles: A Journey Through Film
2019
as Himself
MovieThe Eyes of Orson Welles
2018
as Self - Filmmaker / Narrator (voice)
MovieLove Express. The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk
2018
as Self
MovieThe Dream Palace: A People's History of Tyneside Cinema
2018
Antonia Bird: From EastEnders to Hollywood
2016
as Self
MovieLooking for Charlie: Or, the Day the Clown Died
2016
as Self - Interviewee
MovieThe Film That Buys the Cinema
2014
MovieLife May Be
2014
as Self
MovieHere Be Dragons
2013
as Self
MovieA Story of Children and Film
2013
as Himself - Narrator (voice)
Cinema Is Everywhere
2011
as Self
TVThe Story of Film: An Odyssey
2011
as Presenter / Narrator
MovieThe First Movie
2009
as Self – Documentarist
MovieThe New Ten Commandments
2008
as Self
Cinema Iran
2005
as Narrator
TVScene by Scene
1997
as Self - Presenter
MovieI Know Where I'm Going! Revisited
1994
as Self - Interviewer
TVMoviedrome
1988
Joie de Vivre
as Self
