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Mark Cousins
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.
As director
The Story of Documentary Film: 1970s
The Story of Documentary Film: 1980s
A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things
The Hearth
Cinema Has Been My True Love: The Work and Times of Lynda Myles
The Complete Story of Film
My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock
The March on Rome
The Story of Looking
The Story of Film: A New Generation
The Storms of Jeremy Thomas
Dear Paul Schrader, Thank You for Light Sleeper
Alexander's Film
40 Days to Learn Film
You With Your Fresh Thoughts
Storm in My Heart
The Eyes of Orson Welles
I Am Belfast
Eisenstein on Lawrence
Bigger Than The Shining
Stockholm, My Love
Your Eyes Flash Solemnly with Hate
Atomic: Living in Dread and Promise
Life May Be
The Film That Buys the Cinema
6 Desires
But Then Again, Too Few to Mention
The Place
A Story of Children and Film
Here Be Dragons
As actor
A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things
My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock
The Complete Story of Film
Cannes Uncut
The March on Rome
The Flowers the Fish and the Cockerel
The Storms of Jeremy Thomas
The Story of Film: A New Generation
The Story of Looking
Who Is Bill Rebane?
40 Days to Learn Film
50 Years of the Troubles: A Journey Through Film
Love Express. The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk
The Dream Palace: A People's History of Tyneside Cinema
The Eyes of Orson Welles
Antonia Bird: From EastEnders to Hollywood
Looking for Charlie: Or, the Day the Clown Died
The Film That Buys the Cinema
Life May Be
A Story of Children and Film
Here Be Dragons
Cinema Is Everywhere
The First Movie
The New Ten Commandments
Cinema Iran
I Know Where I'm Going! Revisited
Joie de Vivre