Filmmaker Mark Cousins to visit Tyneside Cinema for a special screening of his latest film

Filmmaker Mark Cousins will be returning to Newcastle’s Tyneside Cinema on Wednesday 9 April for a special screening of his latest film, A Story Of Children And Film. Mark, who, as well as making documentaries The First Movie and The Story Of Film: An Odyssey, has also programmed the Edinburgh Film Festival, hosted BBC2’s Moviedrome and Scene by Scene, and is the author of The Story of Film and Imagining Reality: The Faber Book of Documentary, will introduce his latest film and then take part in a Q&A after the screening. A Story Of Children And Film is a celebration of both childhood and the movies. The film references 53 great films from 25 countries, including classics such as E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial and The Red Balloon, as well as dozens of unknown masterpieces creating a portrait of the adventure of childhood: its surrealism, loneliness, fun, destructiveness and stroppiness. Audiences will have the chance to hear from Mark about how and why he made this documentary, which is a side-sequel to his The Story Of Film project, as well as getting the opportunity to ask him questions about it, and its accompanying season of films The Cinema Of Childhood, which is also screening at the Tyneside Cinema over the spring. Jonny Tull, Cinema Programme Manager for Tyneside Cinema, said, “It’s always a delight to welcome Mark to the Tyneside Cinema and we are thrilled that he will be returning for his latest movie. Mark is such a talkative, entertaining and thoroughly interesting guest with a unique and deep understanding of cinema and we have no doubt that this Q&A will be an absolutely brilliant evening that film fans won’t want to miss.”