Mike Alexander

Directing·May 1, 1945·Scotland

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Mike Alexander is a Scottish filmmaker. He co-founded the independent Glasgow-based production company Pelicula Films Ltd in 1972 with Mark Littlewood. Through Pelicula Films, he produced a variety of different films, both fiction and documentary. Working in long close association with writer and producer Dougla Eadie, his music credits include Transatlantic Sessions, Down Home with Aly Bain in North America, Beyond The Maypole, Aly Meets The Cajuns, The Jazz Apple and Follow The Moonstone. Outside of music, the Alexander/Eadie collaborations include: the Gaelic drama, As An Eilean (“From The Island”) winner of best feature film award at the 1993 Festival of the Americas in Montevideo, Uruguay; Gramsci – Everything That Concerns People, a dramatised portrait of the great Italian socialist writer; Haston – A Life In The Mountains, the life and times of the legendary Dougal Haston, enfant terrible of Scottish climbing; and Fishing For Poetry, with Billy Connolly, Aly Bain and Andrew Greig celebrating the centenary of the birth of the great Scottish poet, Norman MacCaig, by trekking high into the hills of MacCaig’s beloved Assynt to find and fish his favourite trout loch.

Film	Credit
FFishing for Poetry - A Celebration of Norman MacCaig2010 · Director	Director
Interrogation of a Highland Lass2000 · Director	Director
Other Voices, Too: An Evening With Nanci Griffith1999 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
Retying the Knot: The Incredible String Band1997 · Director	Director
Cajun Country1997 · Director	Director
MMairi Mhor1994 · Director	Director
As an Eilean1993 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
Beyond the Maypole1991 · Director	Director
Dreaming1991 · Director	Director
Stephen Hendry: Doing the Business1988 · Director	Director
Gramsci: Everything that Concerns People1987 · Director	Director
BBehind the Lines: The Making of Lesley Keen's Taking a Line For a Walk1983 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
IIona - Dove Across the Water1982 · Director	Director
SStock of Broom - The Edinburgh Merchant Company1981 · Director	Director
CCastle and Capital1979 · Director	Director
NNorman MacCaig: A Man in My Position1977 · Director	Director
Man and Energy1976 · Director	Director
TThe Tent1975 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
Home and Away1974 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Dunfermline1974 · Director	Director
LLothian Landscape1974 · Director	Director
NNeil Gunn - Light in the North1972 · Director	Director
TThe Gardener1971 · Director	Director
Aberdeen1970 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
TThe Bodyguard1969 · Actor, Director	Actor, Director