Gillies MacKinnon (born 8 January 1948, Glasgow) is a Scottish film
director, writer and painter. He attended the Glasgow School of Art
where he studied mural painting. 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 and in the 1980s in the National Film and
Television School. He made a short film called Passing Glory as his
graduation piece, a dour 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.He lives in Stroud Green,
North London.
director, writer and painter. He attended the Glasgow School of Art
where he studied mural painting. 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 and in the 1980s in the National Film and
Television School. He made a short film called Passing Glory as his
graduation piece, a dour 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.He lives in Stroud Green,
North London.
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