Mark Cousins

Mark Cousins is an Irish-Scottish director and writer. His films include: The First Movie, about children in Kurdish Iraq; The Story of Film: An Odyssey, a new history of cinema; Life May Be, which he co-directed with Iranian Mani Akbari; Atomic, about the nuclear age; The Eyes of Orson Welles and Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema. They have premiered in Cannes, Berlin, Sundance and Venice film festivals and have won the Prix Italia, the Stanley Kubrick Award and many other prizes.

Mark’s books are Imagining Reality: The Faber Book of Documentary, Scene by Scene, The Story of Film, The Story of Looking, Watching Real People Elsewhere, Dear Orson Welles and other essays. They have been published around the world. He tries to do innovative film events and find passionate ways to explore his themes: looking, cities, cinema, childhood, and recovery.