Mike Alexander

Birthday:: 05/01/1945
Place of birth:: 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.

Credits

	The Bodyguard (1969)

	Fishing for Poetry - A Celebration of Norman MacCaig Director
	An Ceasnachadh Director
	Other Voices, Too: An Evening With Nanci Griffith Director
	Other Voices, Too: An Evening With Nanci Griffith Producer
	Retying the Knot: The Incredible String Band Director
	Cajun Country Director
	Mairi Mhor Director
	As an Eilean Director
	As an Eilean Producer
	Beyond the Maypole Director
	Dreaming Director
	Stephen Hendry: Doing the Business Director
	Gramsci: Everything that Concerns People Director
	Behind the Lines: The Making of Lesley Keen's Taking a Line For a Walk Director
	Behind the Lines: The Making of Lesley Keen's Taking a Line For a Walk Producer
	Iona - Dove Across the Water Director
	Stock of Broom - The Edinburgh Merchant Company Director
	Castle and Capital Director
	Norman MacCaig: A Man in My Position Director
	Man and Energy Director
	The Tent Director
	The Tent Writer
	Home and Away Director
	Home and Away Writer
	Dunfermline Director
	Lothian Landscape Director
	Neil Gunn - Light in the North Director
	The Gardener Director
	Aberdeen Director
	Aberdeen Writer
	The Bodyguard Director