Mike Alexander (b. 1945)

Alias:
Michael Alexander
Michael James Fairley Alexander

Birthplace:
Scotland

Born:
May 1, 1945

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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Director:
1969  The Bodyguard
1970  Aberdeen
1972  Neil Gunn - Light in the North
1974  Dunfermline
1974  Home and Away
1974  Lothian Landscape
1975  The Tent
1977  Norman MacCaig: A Man in My Position
1979  Castle and Capital
1981  Stock of Broom - The Edinburgh Merchant Company
1982  Iona - Dove Across the Water
1987  Gramsci: Everything that Concerns People
1988  Stephen Hendry: Doing the Business
1991  Beyond the Maypole
1991  Dreaming
1993  As an Eilean
1994  Mairi Mhor
1997  Cajun Country
1997  Retying the Knot: The Incredible String Band
1999  Other Voices, Too: An Evening With Nanci Griffith
2000  Interrogation of a Highland Lass
2010  Fishing for Poetry - A Celebration of Norman MacCaig

Producer:
1969  The Bodyguard
1970  Aberdeen
1972  Neil Gunn - Light in the North
1974  Dunfermline
1974  Home and Away
1974  Lothian Landscape
1975  The Tent
1977  Norman MacCaig: A Man in My Position
1979  Castle and Capital
1981  Stock of Broom - The Edinburgh Merchant Company
1982  Iona - Dove Across the Water
1987  Gramsci: Everything that Concerns People
1988  Stephen Hendry: Doing the Business
1991  Beyond the Maypole
1991  Dreaming
1993  As an Eilean
1994  Mairi Mhor
1997  Cajun Country
1997  Retying the Knot: The Incredible String Band
1999  Other Voices, Too: An Evening With Nanci Griffith
2000  Interrogation of a Highland Lass
2010  Fishing for Poetry - A Celebration of Norman MacCaig

Writer:
1969  The Bodyguard
1970  Aberdeen
1972  Neil Gunn - Light in the North
1974  Dunfermline
1974  Home and Away
1974  Lothian Landscape
1975  The Tent
1977  Norman MacCaig: A Man in My Position
1979  Castle and Capital
1981  Stock of Broom - The Edinburgh Merchant Company
1982  Iona - Dove Across the Water
1987  Gramsci: Everything that Concerns People
1988  Stephen Hendry: Doing the Business
1991  Beyond the Maypole
1991  Dreaming
1993  As an Eilean
1994  Mairi Mhor
1997  Cajun Country
1997  Retying the Knot: The Incredible String Band
1999  Other Voices, Too: An Evening With Nanci Griffith
2000  Interrogation of a Highland Lass
2010  Fishing for Poetry - A Celebration of Norman MacCaig

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