Mark Cousins
A globally acclaimed Scottish-Irish director, writer and wanderer, Mark Cousins was born in 1965, raised in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, and has lived in Scotland since the early 1980s. His 24 feature-length films (as well as 30 short films) and 40 hours of television – including The Story of Film: An Odyssey, What is This Film Called Love?, Life May Be, A Story of Children and Film, Atomic, Stockholm My Love, I Am Belfast and The Eyes of Orson Welles – have premiered in Cannes, Berlin, Sundance and Venice film festivals and have won the Prix Italia, a Peabody, the Persistence of Vision Award in San Francisco, the Maverick Award in Dublin, the Stanley Kubrick Award, and the European Film Academy Award for Innovative Storytelling as well as many other prizes. He has filmed in Iraq, Sarajevo during the siege, Iran, Mexico, across Asia and in America and Europe.
Mark Cousins is also the author of five books, including the acclaimed The Story of Film (Pavilion Books, 2004), Imagining Reality: The Faber Book of Documentary (Faber and Faber, 1996), Widescreen: Watching. Real. People. Elsewhere (Wallflower Press, 2008) and The Story of Looking (Canongate Books, 2017). He continues to live in Edinburgh.
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