Prolific film critic, writer, filmmaker, and TCFF Board Member Mark Cousins (“The Story of Film: An Odyssey,” TCFF 2012) has turned a series of video letters into a fascinating epistolary feature film that is both exquisitely rarefied and surprisingly accessible. A five-part cinemat-ic discourse between Edinburgh resident Cousins and London-based Iranian actress, artist, and director Mania Akbari, “Life May Be” is a unique, poetic journey into the minds of two exceptional filmmakers that becomes a love affair on film. With startling confrontations in the arenas of cultural issues, gender politics, and differing artistic sensibilities, “Life May Be” extends the concept of the personal essay film into a revelatory examination of identity, memory, and self-exposure. Winner of the Don Quixote Award for screenwriting.