Filmmakers Mark Cousins, left, and Michael Moore at the 2016 Traverse City Film Festival .
Director Mark Cousins (The Story of Film: An Odyssey) is prepping a documentary on the artistry of Orson Welles.
Oscar-winner Michael Moore will serve as executive producer of Orson Welles: A Portrait Of The Artist and Beatrice Welles will be a creative consultant. The late actor-director left behind a trove of sketches, water colors and oil paintings.
The trio took part in the 2016 Traverse City Film Festival, where the concept was first discussed.
Beatrice Welles, who manages her father’s estate, has been looking for a publisher interested in a volume of her father’s artwork.
Orson Welles: A Portrait Of The Artist will be seeking sales and distribution deals at the Sheffield Doc/Fest’s MeetMarket on June 12-13.
Cousins is best known for his 2011 documentary The Story of Film: An Odyssey, which was broadcast as 15 hour-long television episodes on More and later featured at the Toronto International Film Festival. It was subsequently shown on Turner Classic Movies. He penned A Letter to Orson Welles last summer for the Traverse City Film Festival.
Moore is the director of the acclaimed documentaries Fahrenheit 9/11 and Bowling for Columbine.
Beatrice Welles is one of the executive producers of the upcoming The Other Side of the Wind.
Some of you asked to see my new Orson Welles tattoo. Here it is, slightly upstaged by his daughter Beatrice… pic.twitter.com/vgvP6HVL9s
— mark cousins (@markcousinsfilm) July 30, 2016
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