
Person
Mike Alexander
Directing · Born 1945-05-01 · Scotland
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.
Known for

Screen Two
Director

Interrogation of a Highland Lass
Director
Mairi Mhor
Director

Aberdeen
Director
Lothian Landscape
Director

Home and Away
Director

Cajun Country
Director

Dunfermline
Director

Gramsci: Everything that Concerns People
Director
The Bodyguard
1969
Filmography
- 2010Fishing for Poetry - A Celebration of Norman MacCaigDirector
- 2000Interrogation of a Highland LassDirector
- 1999Other Voices, Too: An Evening With Nanci GriffithDirector
- 1997Retying the Knot: The Incredible String BandDirector
- 1997Cajun CountryDirector
- 1994Mairi MhorDirector
- 1993As an EileanDirector
- 1991Beyond the MaypoleDirector
- 1991DreamingDirector
- 1988Stephen Hendry: Doing the BusinessDirector
- 1987Gramsci: Everything that Concerns PeopleDirector
- 1985Screen TwoDirector
- 1983Behind the Lines: The Making of Lesley Keen's Taking a Line For a WalkDirector
- 1982Iona - Dove Across the WaterDirector
- 1981Stock of Broom - The Edinburgh Merchant CompanyDirector
- 1979Castle and CapitalDirector
- 1977Norman MacCaig: A Man in My PositionDirector
- 1976Man and EnergyDirector
- 1975The TentDirector
- 1974Home and AwayDirector
- 1974DunfermlineDirector
- 1974Lothian LandscapeDirector
- 1972Neil Gunn - Light in the NorthDirector
- 1971The GardenerDirector
- 1970AberdeenDirector
- 1969The Bodyguard
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