Gillies MacKinnon
Gillies MacKinnon (born 8 January 1948) is a Scottish film director, writer and painter. Following this he became an art teacher and cartoonist, and about this time he traveled with a nomadic tribe in the Sahara for six months. In the 1970s he studied at the Middlesex Polytechnic (now Middlesex University) and in the 1980s in the National Film and Television School.
Gillies MacKinnon
- Born
- 1948 · Glasgow.
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Occupation
- screenwriter · painter · director
- Fields
- film direction · film screenwriting · painting
- Education
- National Film and Television School · Middlesex University
- Languages
- English
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Gillies MacKinnon (born 8 January 1948) is a Scottish film director, writer and painter. Following this he became an art teacher and cartoonist, and about this time he traveled with a nomadic tribe in the Sahara for six months. In the 1970s he studied at the Middlesex Polytechnic (now Middlesex University) and in the 1980s in the National Film and Television School.
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He made a short film called Passing Glory as his graduation piece, a recreation of Glasgow in the 1950s and 1960s. It was premiered at the 1986 Edinburgh International Film Festival, where it won the first Scottish Film Prize.
Gillies MacKinnon studied at National Film and Television School and Middlesex University. The recorded working language is English. The field of work recorded is film direction, film screenwriting and painting. Places of work recorded in the authority are United Kingdom.
• Conquest of the South Pole (1989) (TV film, adapted from the play by Manfred Karge) • The Grass Arena (1991) • The Playboys (1992) • The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (1992) (TV series) • A Simple Twist of Fate (1994) • Small Faces (1996) co-writer and director • Trojan Eddie (1996) • Regeneration (1997) • Hideous Kinky (1998) • The Last of the Blonde Bombshells (2000) • The Escapist (2002) • Pure (2002) • Gunpowder, Treason & Plot (2004) • Tara Road (2005) • Castles in the Sky (2014) • Whisky Galore! (2016) • Torvill & Dean (2018) (TV film) • The Last Bus (2021)
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1948
Gillies MacKinnon born at Glasgow.
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