Director
Mike Alexander
81 years · Scotland · 14 films
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.
Best known for
Filmography 14
Interrogation of a Highland Lass
2000 · Director
Other Voices, Too: An Evening With Nanci Griffith
1999 · Director, Producer
Retying the Knot: The Incredible String Band
1997 · Director
Cajun Country
1997 · Director
As an Eilean
1993 · Director, Producer
Beyond the Maypole
1991 · Director
Dreaming
1991 · Director
Stephen Hendry: Doing the Business
1988 · Director
Gramsci: Everything that Concerns People
1987 · Director
Man and Energy
1976 · Director
Livingston - A Plan for Living
1976 · Director
Home and Away
1974 · Director, Writer
Dunfermline
1974 · Director
Aberdeen
1970 · Director, Writer