Colin MacCabe has produced more than ten feature films and thirty hours of televisiondocumentaries devoted to the history of the cinema. Directors he has worked with include
Derek Jarman, Terence Davies, Stephen Frears, Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker. He has collaborated with Isaac Julien for more than twenty years in a variety of genres:
feature film (Young Soul Rebels, 1991), documentary (Baadasssss, 2002), installation (Paradise Omeros, 2002). His books on the cinema include Godard: A Portrait of the Artist at 70 (Bloomsbury, 2003) and The Butcher Boy (Irish Film Institute 2007). He is Distinguished Professor of English and Film at the University of Pittsburgh and Professor
of English and Humanities Birkbeck, University of London.