Mike Alexander
Born 1945 (age 81) · Scotland
Appears in 25 titles

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

As an Eilean
10.0
As an Eilean
1993
Director
Dreaming
9.0
Dreaming
1991
Director
9.0
Mairi Mhor
1994
Director
Interrogation of a Highland Lass
The Bodyguard
1969
Director
Gramsci: Everything that Concerns People
Cajun Country
Cajun Country
1997
Director
Castle and Capital
1979
Director
Dunfermline
Dunfermline
1974
Director
Iona - Dove Across the Water
1982
Director
Lothian Landscape
1974
Director
Aberdeen
Aberdeen
1970
Director
The Tent
1975
Director
Home and Away
Home and Away
1974
Director