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.

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.

Mark Cousins’s monumental undertaking was simply magnificent, keynote television to rank alongside ‘Civilisation’ or ‘The Ascent of Man’. It looked like our dreams, indeed.

Standing ovation for Mark Cousins at Toronto International Film Festival

Here's the band of avid audience who attended every day of the five days premiere of The Story of Film: An Odyssey at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Indiewire called it 'orgiastic' in its review and find out what the audience thought here.

Travelling to Toronto!

For more information and screening times see the website here.

We also have an exclusive sneak peak behind the scenes of the making of The Story of Film. When Mark filmed in Ouagadougou with his crew, the locals did everything they could to help out!

Story of Film: The Jib shot from Hopscotch Films on Vimeo.