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

Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema
2018
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
2011
Scene by Scene
1997
Moviedrome
1997
Joie de Vivre
2026
Cannes Uncut
2023
My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock
2023
The Eyes of Orson Welles
2018
60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
2011
The Film That Buys the Cinema
2014
The Story of Documentary Film
I Know Where I'm Going! Revisited
1994

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
31
Directing
47
Writing
28
Producing
4
Camera
6
Editing
1
Crew
3
2026
Joie de Vivre
as Self
2024
A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things
as Self
2023
My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock
as Self (voice)
2023
The Complete Story of Film
as Narrator
2023
Cannes Uncut
as Self
2022
The March on Rome
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2021
The Flowers the Fish and the Cockerel
as Self
2021
The Storms of Jeremy Thomas
as Self
2021
The Story of Film: A New Generation
as Narrator
2021
The Story of Looking
as Self
2021
Who Is Bill Rebane?
as Self
2020
40 Days to Learn Film
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2019
50 Years of the Troubles: A Journey Through Film
as Himself
2018
Love Express. The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk
as Self
2018
The Dream Palace: A People's History of Tyneside Cinema
2018
The Eyes of Orson Welles
as Self - Filmmaker / Narrator (voice)
2016
Antonia Bird: From EastEnders to Hollywood
as Self
2016
Looking for Charlie: Or, the Day the Clown Died
as Self - Interviewee
2014
The Film That Buys the Cinema
2014
Life May Be
as Self
2013
A Story of Children and Film
as Himself - Narrator (voice)
2013
Here Be Dragons
as Self
2011
Cinema Is Everywhere
as Self
2011
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
as Presenter / Narrator
2009
The First Movie
as Self – Documentarist
2008
The New Ten Commandments
as Self
2005
Cinema Iran
as Narrator
1997
Moviedrome
1997
Scene by Scene
as Self - Presenter
1994
I Know Where I'm Going! Revisited
as Self - Interviewer
The Story of Documentary Film
as Self – Narrator