Mike Alexander

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.

Directed

1. Screen Two (1985) — Director
2. Retying the Knot: The Incredible String Band (1997) — Director
3. As an Eilean (1993) — Director
4. Dreaming (1991) — Director
5. Mairi Mhor (1994) — Director
6. Interrogation of a Highland Lass (2000) — Director
7. The Bodyguard (1969) — Director
8. Gramsci: Everything that Concerns People (1987) — Director
9. Cajun Country (1997) — Director
10. Other Voices, Too: An Evening With Nanci Griffith (1999) — Director
11. Fishing for Poetry - A Celebration of Norman MacCaig (2010) — Director
12. Castle and Capital (1979) — Director
13. Dunfermline (1974) — Director
14. Iona - Dove Across the Water (1982) — Director
15. Lothian Landscape (1974) — Director
16. Neil Gunn - Light in the North (1972) — Director
17. Norman MacCaig: A Man in My Position (1977) — Director
18. Aberdeen (1970) — Director
19. Home and Away (1974) — Director
20. The Tent (1975) — Director
21. Stock of Broom - The Edinburgh Merchant Company (1981) — Director
22. Beyond the Maypole (1991) — Director
23. Stephen Hendry: Doing the Business (1988) — Director
24. Man and Energy (1976) — Director
25. The Gardener (1971) — Director
26. Behind the Lines: The Making of Lesley Keen's Taking a Line For a Walk (1983) — Director

Also appeared in

1. The Bodyguard (1969)