Berlinale Festival 2012

Exciting news: Mark Cousins has been invited to screen the full 900 minutes of The Story of Film at this year's International Film festival Berlinale. It will be screened as part of the Berlinale Special programme which features 'new and extraordinary productions'. The festival states the programme's role is to 'to honour great cinema personalities by showing their films and to immerse audiences in cinematic history by screening film classics.' We think Mark is an excellent addition to the selection! See more on the festival website here.

The Festival is on between the 9th and 19th of February with the Story of Film on the 16th/17th.

1911 on BBC iplayer

Now on the BBC iplayer for seven days. Click here.

Review of 1911 Broadcast

Hopscotch are proud to announce the broadcast of their BBC Learning commission Review of 1911 in words and pictures.

The hour long programme will be transimitted in the Learning Zone, BBC2 on Friday 13th January at 4am and will available on the BBC iplayer for seven days.

Six individual films can be seen online here with full credit information.

Best of 2011...

The Story of Film has been picked by Time Out magazine as the TV highlight of the year. TV editor Gabriel Tate made Mark Cousin's epic journey across cinema history his number one pick. Read the article here.

Exclusive pics of 1911 shoot: Siege of Sidney Street

photograph by Robin Mitchell

Three armed jewel thieves are cornered in a house in Sidney Street, in the East End of London. They hold off the police with gunfire, and Home Secretary Winston Churchill asks the army to intervene. Mrs Fleishman (Lauren Socha) is informed the criminals are hiding in her house. 

Commissioned for BBC Learning.