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Mike Alexander
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…
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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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2010
Fishing for Poetry - A Celebration of Norman MacCaig
Movie Director
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2000
Interrogation of a Highland Lass
Movie Director
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1999
Other Voices, Too: An Evening With Nanci Griffith
Movie Director
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1997
Retying the Knot: The Incredible String Band
Movie Director
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1997
Cajun Country
Movie Director
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1994
Mairi Mhor
Movie Director
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1993
As an Eilean
Movie Director
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1991
Beyond the Maypole
Movie Director
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1991
Dreaming
Movie Director
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1988
Stephen Hendry: Doing the Business
Movie Director
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1987
Gramsci: Everything that Concerns People
Movie Director
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1985
Screen Two
TV show Director
- 1983
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1982
Iona - Dove Across the Water
Movie Director
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1981
Stock of Broom - The Edinburgh Merchant Company
Movie Director
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1979
Castle and Capital
Movie Director
More credits
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1977
Norman MacCaig: A Man in My Position
Movie Director
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1976
Man and Energy
Movie Director
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1975
The Tent
Movie Writer
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1974
Home and Away
Movie Director
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1974
Dunfermline
Movie Director
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1974
Lothian Landscape
Movie Director
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1972
Neil Gunn - Light in the North
Movie Director
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1971
The Gardener
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1970
Aberdeen
Movie Director
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1969
The Bodyguard
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