Mark Cousins is a Northern Irish filmmaker and writer based in Edinburgh. His body of work, consisting of 25 feature-length films and six books, explores visual culture, cities, politics, walking… His 15-hour documentary The Story of Film: An Odyssey won a Peabody Award and the Stanley Kubrick Award, while A Story of Children and Film premiered at Cannes. With I Am Belfast, he created a lyrical essay film about his hometown. His fiction debut was Stockholm, My Love, a musical starring and featuring the music of Neneh Cherry. His most recent book is the non-fiction essay The Story of Looking.