A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
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.
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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