A STORY OF CHILDREN AND FILM

He is a Northern Irish filmmaker, writer and curator living and working in Scotland. He started by making films for TV about neo-Nazism, Ian Hamilton Finlay and the cinema of Iran. Then, in the early 90’s he became director of the Edinburgh International Film Festival. Together with Robert Carlyle and Irvine Welsh, Cousins is a director of the production company 4Way Pictures. His 2004 book The Story of Film, was published in Europe, America, China, Mexico, Brazil and Taiwan. The Times said of it “by some distance the best book we have read on cinema.” Cousins adapted the book into a 930 minute film, The Story of Film: An Odyssey which played in major international film festivals (Berlin, Telluride, Toronto, among others), and at art centres such as the Walker in Minneapolis, Bozar in Brussels, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Cousins has been guest curator at film festivals around the world, is Honorary Professor of Film at the University of Glasgow and Honorary Doctor of Letters at the Universities of Edinburgh and Stirling. Cousins is currently curating a season of films for the Romanian Cultural Institute in London, and editing a “shame musical” film, Stockholm my Love, which stars Neneh Cherry, which is also shot by Doyle. Cousins directed it, and wrote the lyrics to the songs. He has just completed Bigger than The Shining, a secret project which is showable by film festivals if they publish its name only, and don’t describe it in any way, and is planning his biggest project yet. He once recorded the voice for a drum’ n’ bass dance track about the film La Maman et la putain, likes to dance and drive his campervan.