Mark Cousins

Mark Cousins is a Scottish-Irish filmmaker and writer. His 24 feature length films - including The Story of Film: An Odyssey, The March on Rome, Atomic, The Eyes of Orson Welles, and Women Make Film - have won awards around the world, including the Prix Italia, a Peabody, the Stanley Kubrick Award, the European Film Academy Award for Innovative Storytelling, the Heart of Sarajevo and the Persistence of Vision award. Their themes are looking, cities, cinema, politics, childhood, and recovery. His books include Imagining Reality: The Faber Book of Documentary, The Story of Film and The Story of Looking. He is in post production on his 16 hour The Story of Documentary Film.