Biography
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.
Filmography
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Movies 19
Director 17
Producer 1
Fishing for Poetry - A Celebration of Norman MacCaig (2010)
Interrogation of a Highland Lass (2000)
Other Voices, Too: An Evening With Nanci Griffith (1999)
Retying the Knot: The Incredible String Band (1997)
Cajun Country (1997)
Mairi Mhor (1994)
As an Eilean (1993)
Beyond the Maypole (1991)
Dreaming (1991)
Gramsci: Everything that Concerns People (1987)
Iona - Dove Across the Water (1982)
Castle and Capital (1979)
Norman MacCaig: A Man in My Position (1977)
Nosey Dobson (1976)
Home and Away (1974)
Lothian Landscape (1974)
Dunfermline (1974)
Neil Gunn - Light in the North (1972)
The Bodyguard (1969)
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Birthday1945-05-01 (78 years old)
Also Known AsMichael James Fairley Alexander, Michael Alexander
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