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.

Filmography of Mark Cousins

• The Story of Documentary Film: 1970s (2026)
• A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things (2024)
• Cinema Has Been My True Love: The Work and Times of Lynda Myles (2023)
• The Complete Story of Film (2023)
• My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock (2023)
• The March on Rome (2022)
• The Story of Looking (2021)
• The Story of Film: A New Generation (2021)
• The Storms of Jeremy Thomas (2021)
• Alexander's Film (2020)
• 40 Days to Learn Film (2020)
• Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema (2020)
• The Eyes of Orson Welles (2018)
• I Am Belfast (2016)
• Stockholm, My Love (2016)
• Atomic: Living in Dread and Promise (2015)
• Life May Be (2014)
• The Film That Buys the Cinema (2014)
• 6 Desires (2014)
• A Story of Children and Film (2013)
• Here Be Dragons (2013)
• 60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero (2011)
• The Story of Film: An Odyssey (2011)
• The First Movie (2009)
• The New Ten Commandments (2008)
• On the Road with Kiarostami (2005)
• Scene by Scene (1997)
• I Know Where I'm Going! Revisited (1994)
• Another Journey By Train (1993)