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The film producers had exclusive access to hundreds of Orson Welles’s private drawings and paintings, taking a deep dive into the visual world of legendary director and actor to reveal a portrait of the artist as he's never been seen before – through his own eyes, sketched with his own hand, painted with his own brush. Executive produced by Michael Moore, the film brings vividly to life the passions, politics and power of this brilliant 20th-century showman, and explores how the genius of Welles still resonates today in the age of Trump, more than 30 years after his death. The film was awarded the Golden Eye at the Cannes Festival.
Mark Cousins
Born in 1965 in Northern Ireland. He started his career making films for TV. During the 1990s he became the head of the Edinburgh International Film Festival. In 2009 he wrote and directed his first feature film, The First Movie, about the stories of children from Iraqi Kurdistan, which won the Prix Italia. Life May Be (2014) and I Am Belfast (2015) are other of his critically acclaimed films.