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Mark Cousins was born on 3 May, 1965 in Coventry, England, is a Northern Irish film director (born 1965). Discover Mark Cousins's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 58 years old?

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Occupation Film director, screenwriter, producer, author
Age 58 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 3 May 1965
Birthday 3 May
Birthplace Coventry, England
Nationality Northern Irish

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1921

6 Desires: DH Lawrence and Sardinia was based around an imagined letter from Cousins to the author D. H. Lawrence, who wrote about a 1921 visit to Sardinia.

Life May Be was a collaboration with Iranian director and actor Mania Akbari, again making use of Cousins' familiar structural devices of letters, travel imagery, and voiceover commentary, judged "self-advertisement".

A Story of Children and Film was critically better-received.

Using footage he shot of his niece and nephew at play as a springboard it muses on the representation of children in cinema.

Cousins subsequently wrote and directed I Am Belfast, in which the city is personified by a 10,000-year-old woman.

1965

Mark Cousins (born 3 May 1965) is an English-born, Northern Irish director and writer.

1984

Since 1984, he has been in a long-term personal relationship with Gill Moreton, a psychologist, whom he met at Stirling; they live in Edinburgh.

In December 2023 he was one of 50 filmmakers who signed an open letter to Libération demanding a ceasefire and an end to the killing of civilians amid the 2023 Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip, and for a humanitarian corridor into Gaza to be established for humanitarian aid, and the release of hostages.

1990

In the 1990s and 2000s, Cousins interviewed directors, producers and actors including Steven Spielberg, Woody Allen, Tom Hanks, Sean Connery, Brian De Palma, Steve Martin, Lauren Bacall, Jane Russell, Paul Schrader, Bernardo Bertolucci, Kirk Douglas, Jeanne Moreau, Terence Stamp, Jack Lemmon, Janet Leigh and Rod Steiger.

1996

He is a Patron of the Edinburgh International Film Festival, and previously acted as both a programmer and director (1996–1997) of the festival.

He also appeared on Mark Kermode's YouTube channel "Kermode Uncut".

1997

He presented the BBC cult film series Moviedrome from June 1997 to July 2000.

He introduced 66 films for the show, including the little-seen Nicolas Roeg film Eureka.

2001

Between 2001 and 2011, he wrote for Prospect, and now writes for Sight & Sound and Filmkrant.

2009

In 2009, Cousins and Tilda Swinton co-founded the "8/2 Foundation".

Together they also created a project where they mounted a 33.5-tonne portable cinema on a large truck which was physically pulled through the Scottish Highlands.

The traveling independent film festival was featured prominently in a documentary called Cinema is Everywhere.

2011

A prolific documentarian, among his works is the 15-hour 2011 documentary The Story of Film: An Odyssey.

Cousins interviewed famous filmmakers such as David Lynch, Martin Scorsese and Roman Polanski in the TV series Scene by Scene.

The festival was repeated in 2011.

His 2011 film The Story of Film: An Odyssey was broadcast on Channel 4 as 15 one-hour television episodes on More4, and later, featured at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival.

2013

In September 2013, it began to be shown on Turner Classic Movies (TCM).

Drawing on its exhaustive film library, TCM complemented each episode with relevant short films and feature films ranging from the familiar to the rarely seen.

TCM received a 2013 Peabody Award "for its inclusive, uniquely annotated survey of world cinema history".

Following The Story of Film,was a shorter work: What Is This Film Called Love? a self-photographed diary of his three-day walk around Mexico City, accompanied by his imagined conversation with a photo of Sergei Eisenstein and described as "fatuous" by film bible Variety.

Another low-budget, quickly produced documentary, Here Be Dragons, covers a short film-watching trip he made to Albania and was also poorly received as indulgent and "random".

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.

2014

Portions of the film in progress, with a score by Belfast composer David Holmes were screened at the 2014 Belfast Film Festival.

He is also working on a three-hour addendum to The Story of Film, on the subject of documentaries, entitled Dear John Grierson.

2017

Cousins took an axe to his own film Bigger Than The Shining after screening to a live audience at the 2017 International Rotterdam Film Festival (IFFR), with the intention of never screeining it again since this was the only copy of the film.

Cousins is the Co-Artistic Director of Cinema China, The Ballerina Ballroom Cinema of Dreams and A Pilgrimage with Tilda Swinton.

Together with Antonia Bird, Robert Carlyle and Irvine Welsh, Cousins is a director of the production company 4Way Pictures.

2019

Cousins chairs the Belfast Film Festival, and is a board member of Michael Moore's Traverse City Film Festival and was 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 2019, Cousins was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

In 2021, he was on the jury for that year's BFI London Film Festival.

His film The Story of Film: A New Generation was first screened at the Cannes Film Festival 2021.

Born in Coventry, England, Cousins was raised in Ballymena, County Antrim, Northern Ireland (where he attended St Louis Grammar School), and graduated in film, television and art at the University of Stirling.