
Person
Mike Alexander
Directing
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- May 1, 1945
- From
- Scotland
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.
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Credits
The Bodyguard

Gramsci: Everything that Concerns People

Cajun Country

Other Voices, Too: An Evening With Nanci Griffith
Fishing for Poetry - A Celebration of Norman MacCaig
Castle and Capital

Dunfermline
Iona - Dove Across the Water

As an Eilean
Lothian Landscape
Norman MacCaig: A Man in My Position
Neil Gunn - Light in the North

Aberdeen
The Tent

Home and Away

Dreaming

Interrogation of a Highland Lass
Mairi Mhor