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Gillies MacKinnon

Director

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FEATURE FILM
Date: 2019
Production (role):
THE LAST BUS
Company:
Hurricane Films
Project details:
Wr. Joe Ainsworth

Prods. Roy Boulter, Sol Papadopoulos
Date: 2016
Production (role):
WHISKEY GALORE
Project details:
Starring Eddie Izzard and Gregor Fisher

Release 2017
Date: 2005
Production (role):
TARA ROAD
Company:
Ferndale Films / Sarah Radclyffe Productions / IFB
Project details:
Wr. Shane Connaughton

Prods. Noel Pearson and Sarah Radclyffe

Starring Andie MacDowell, Olivia Williams, Iain Glen, Stephen Rea, Brenda Fricker and Ruby Wax
Date: 2002
Production (role):
PURE
Company:
Kudos / Little Wing Films / Artificial Eye
Project details:
Prod. Howard Burch

Starring Molly Parker, Keira Knightly, Harry Eden and David Wenham

Winner of Manfred Salzgeber Award for European Production at Berlin Film Festival 2003

Winner of the Audience Award at Emden Film Festival, Germany 2003
Date: 2001
Production (role):
THE ESCAPIST
Company:
Little Bird / Sky Pictures
Project details:
Prod. Jolyon Symonds

Starring Johnny Lee Miller, Jodhi May and Andy Serkis
Date: 1998
Production (role):
HIDEOUS KINKY
Company:
Greenpoint / BBC / L Films / The Film Consortium
Project details:
Prod. Anne Scott

Starring Kate Winslet and Said Taghmaoui

The Herald Angel Award Edinburgh Film Festival 1998
Date: 1997
Production (role):
REGENERATION (aka BEHIND THE LINES)
Company:
Norstar / Rafford Films / BBC Films
Project details:
Wr. / Prod. Alan Scott

Starring Jonny Lee Miller, Jonathan Pryce and James Wilby

Nominated for Outstanding British Film of the Year - BAFTA 1998

Nominated for Best Director - BIFA's 1998

Nominated for 3 awards - Evening Standard Film Awards 1998

Nominated Best Film - South Bank Show Awards 1998

Herald Angel Award Edinburgh Film Festival 1997
Date: 1996
Production (role):
TROJAN EDDIE
Company:
Initial / Irish Screen / Channel 4 Films
Project details:
Wr. Billy Roche

Prod. Emma Burge

Starring Stephen Rea, Richard Harris and Brendan Gleeson

Winner Golden Shell, Best Film - San Sebastian 1996

Nominated Best Director - Dinard British Film Festival 1996

Critics Award Edinburgh Film Festival 1996
Date: 1995
Production (role):
SMALL FACES (Director / Co-Writer)
Company:
Skyline / Glasgow Film Fund / BBC Films
Project details:
Wrs. Billy and Gillies Mackinnon

Prods. Billy Mackinnon and Steve Clark-Hall

Starring Iain Robertson, Laura Fraser and Kevin McKidd

Winner of The Michael Powell Award for Best New British Feature - Edinburgh International Festival 1995

Nominated Best Writer - Scottish BAFTA's 1997

Best British Feature Film - Critics Award 1995

Winner of Tiger Award / Jury Prize - Rotterdam Film Festival 1996
Date: 1994
Production (role):
A SIMPLE TWIST OF FATE
Company:
Touchstone Pictures / Buena Vista
Project details:
Wr. Steve Martin

Prod. Ric Kidney

Starring Steve Martin, Gabriel Byrne, Laura Linney, Stephen Baldwin and Catherine O’Hara
Date: 1992
Production (role):
THE PLAYBOYS
Company:
Green Umbrella / The Samuel Goldwyn Co.
Project details:
Wrs. Shane Connaughton and Kerry Crabbe

Prod. Simon Perry

Starring Albert Finney, Aidan Quinn, Milo O’Shea and Robin Wright Penn
TELEVISION
Date: 2018
Production (role):
TORVILL & DEAN
Company:
Darlow Smithson Productions/ ITV1
Project details:
Wr. William Ivory

Prod. Emma Burge
Date: 2015
Production (role):
CLEAN BREAK
Company:
Octagon Films / RTE
Project details:
Wr. Billy Roche

Prods. Emma Burge and John Chapman
Date: 2014
Production (role):
CASTLES IN THE SKY
Company:
Black Camel Pictures / BBC
Project details:
Starring Eddie Izzard

Nominated for Audience Award - Edinburgh Film Festival 2014

Nominated for Michael Powell Award - Edinburgh Film Festival 2014
Date: 2013
Production (role):
THE VILLAGE
Company:
Company Pictures / BBC 1
Project details:
Wr. Peter Moffat

Starring John Simm and Maxine Peake

Winner of Mind Media Award 2013

Nominated for ‘Best Series’ at BAFTA TV Awards 2014
Date: 2012
Production (role):
INSPECTOR GEORGE GENTLY: ‘GENTLY NORTHERN SOUL’ and ‘GENTLY WITH CLASS’
Company:
Company Pictures / BBC 1
Project details:
2 x 90 mins

Starring Martin Shaw and Lee Ingleby
Date: 2011
Production (role):
INSPECTOR GEORGE GENTLY: ‘GOODBYE CHINA’
Company:
Company Pictures / BBC 1
Project details:
1 x 90 mins

Starring Martin Shaw and Lee Ingleby
Date: 2011
Production (role):
ABOVE SUSPICION 3: DEADLY INTENT
Company:
La Plante Productions / ITV 1
Project details:
Three-part film

Starring Kelly Reilly and Ciarán Hinds
Date: 2010
Production (role):
ABOVE SUSPICION 2: THE RED DAHLIA
Company:
La Plante Productions / ITV 1
Project details:
Three-part film

Starring Kelly Reilly and Ciarán Hinds
Date: 2008
Production (role):
ZIG ZAG LOVE
Company:
Machine Productions / BBC Scotland / BBC
Project details:
Single Film

Starring Robert Carlyle and Joe McFadden

Winner of Best Feature - Norwich Film Festival 2009

Winner of Best UK Film - Swansea Bay Film Festival 2010

Winner Best Youth Programme - BAFTA Cymru Awards 2010

Nominated for a Cultural Network Award of Excellence - Creative Output 2009
Date: 2008
Production (role):
THE COMMANDER: ABDUCTION
Company:
La Plante Productions / ITV 1
Project details:
Three-part film

Starring Amanda Burton
Date: 2008
Production (role):
TRIAL & RETRIBUTION
Company:
La Plante Productions / ITV 1 (Series 11)
Project details:
Starring David Hayman, Victoria Smurfit and John Lynch
Date: 2007
Production (role):
THE HISTORY OF MR POLLY
Company:
Granada / ITV
Project details:
Single Film

Prod. Katherine Lannon

Wr. Adrian Hodges

Starring Lee Evans and Anne Marie Duff

Nominated for 6 awards at BAFTA Cymru Awards

Anne Marie Duff won BAFTA Cymru award for Best Actress
Date: 2004
Production (role):
GUNPOWDER, TREASON AND PLOT
Company:
BBC / Box TV
Project details:
Wr. Jimmy McGovern

Prods. Gub Neal and Alan J. Wands

Starring Robert Carlyle, Kevin McKidd and Clémence Poésy

Winner of four FIPA Awards 2004 for Best Film, Best Screenplay, Best Actor and Best Actress
Date: 2000
Production (role):
LAST OF THE BLONDE BOMBSHELLS
Company:
Working Title Television / BBC
Project details:
Single Film

Prod. Simon Wright

Starring Judi Dench, Ian Holm and Romola Garai

Judi Dench won a GOLDEN GLOBE 2001 and BAFTA for Best Actress 2001
Date: 1993
Production (role):
THE YOUNG INDIANA JONES CHRONICLES: 'IRELAND 1916'
Company:
Lucas Film Ltd / Paramount
Project details:
Starring Sean Patrick Flannery
Date: 1990
Production (role):
THE GRASS ARENA
Company:
BBC Films
Project details:
Screen Two

Wr. Frank Deasy

Prod. Ruth Baumgarten

Starring Mark Rylance and Pete Poselthwaite

Edinburgh International Festival

Michael Powell Award - Best British Feature Film 1991

Winner Grand Prix, Dinard Film Festival 1991

Best British Film Dinard Film Festival

1991 Distributors Award

San Francisco Film Festival 1992

'Special Jury Award' Television Feature, Golden Gate Award

'Special Prize' Prague D'Or (drama programmes)

Golden Prague International TV Festival 1992

Nominated Best Single Drama, BAFTA 1992
Date: 1990
Production (role):
SCREENPLAY: 'NEEDLE'
Company:
BBC Drama
Project details:
Wr. Jimmy McGovern

Prod. George Faber

Nominated for Royal Television Society Drama Award
Date: 1989
Production (role):
CONQUEST OF THE SOUTH POLE
Company:
Jam Jar Films / Film Four International
Project details:
Single Film

Based on a play by Manfred Karge

Nominated for New Directors Award

Edinburgh Film Festival 1988
RADIO
Date: 2009
Production (role):
FLESH AND BLOOD (Writer)
Company:
Radio 4
Project details:
Radio Play

Starring David Hayman and Gary Lewis
SHORT FILM
Date: 1986
Production (role):
PASSING GLORY (Director / Writer)
Company:
NFTS
Project details:
Prod. Billy Mackinnon

Starring Ida Schuster and Alan Cumming

Screened Channel 4

First Scottish Film Prize, Edinburgh International Film Festival

Credits

  • Date
    Production (role)
    Company
    Project details
  • Date: 2019
    Production (role): THE LAST BUS
    Company: Hurricane Films
    Project details: Wr. Joe Ainsworth

    Prods. Roy Boulter, Sol Papadopoulos
  • Date: 2016
    Production (role): WHISKEY GALORE
    Company:
    Project details: Starring Eddie Izzard and Gregor Fisher

    Release 2017
  • Date: 2005
    Production (role): TARA ROAD
    Company: Ferndale Films / Sarah Radclyffe Productions / IFB
    Project details: Wr. Shane Connaughton

    Prods. Noel Pearson and Sarah Radclyffe

    Starring Andie MacDowell, Olivia Williams, Iain Glen, Stephen Rea, Brenda Fricker and Ruby Wax
  • Date: 2002
    Production (role): PURE
    Company: Kudos / Little Wing Films / Artificial Eye
    Project details: Prod. Howard Burch

    Starring Molly Parker, Keira Knightly, Harry Eden and David Wenham

    Winner of Manfred Salzgeber Award for European Production at Berlin Film Festival 2003

    Winner of the Audience Award at Emden Film Festival, Germany 2003
  • Date: 2001
    Production (role): THE ESCAPIST
    Company: Little Bird / Sky Pictures
    Project details: Prod. Jolyon Symonds

    Starring Johnny Lee Miller, Jodhi May and Andy Serkis
  • Date: 1998
    Production (role): HIDEOUS KINKY
    Company: Greenpoint / BBC / L Films / The Film Consortium
    Project details: Prod. Anne Scott

    Starring Kate Winslet and Said Taghmaoui

    The Herald Angel Award Edinburgh Film Festival 1998
  • Date: 1997
    Production (role): REGENERATION (aka BEHIND THE LINES)
    Company: Norstar / Rafford Films / BBC Films
    Project details: Wr. / Prod. Alan Scott

    Starring Jonny Lee Miller, Jonathan Pryce and James Wilby

    Nominated for Outstanding British Film of the Year - BAFTA 1998

    Nominated for Best Director - BIFA's 1998

    Nominated for 3 awards - Evening Standard Film Awards 1998

    Nominated Best Film - South Bank Show Awards 1998

    Herald Angel Award Edinburgh Film Festival 1997
  • Date: 1996
    Production (role): TROJAN EDDIE
    Company: Initial / Irish Screen / Channel 4 Films
    Project details: Wr. Billy Roche

    Prod. Emma Burge

    Starring Stephen Rea, Richard Harris and Brendan Gleeson

    Winner Golden Shell, Best Film - San Sebastian 1996

    Nominated Best Director - Dinard British Film Festival 1996

    Critics Award Edinburgh Film Festival 1996
  • Date: 1995
    Production (role): SMALL FACES (Director / Co-Writer)
    Company: Skyline / Glasgow Film Fund / BBC Films
    Project details: Wrs. Billy and Gillies Mackinnon

    Prods. Billy Mackinnon and Steve Clark-Hall

    Starring Iain Robertson, Laura Fraser and Kevin McKidd

    Winner of The Michael Powell Award for Best New British Feature - Edinburgh International Festival 1995

    Nominated Best Writer - Scottish BAFTA's 1997

    Best British Feature Film - Critics Award 1995

    Winner of Tiger Award / Jury Prize - Rotterdam Film Festival 1996
  • Date: 1994
    Production (role): A SIMPLE TWIST OF FATE
    Company: Touchstone Pictures / Buena Vista
    Project details: Wr. Steve Martin

    Prod. Ric Kidney

    Starring Steve Martin, Gabriel Byrne, Laura Linney, Stephen Baldwin and Catherine O’Hara
  • Date: 1992
    Production (role): THE PLAYBOYS
    Company: Green Umbrella / The Samuel Goldwyn Co.
    Project details: Wrs. Shane Connaughton and Kerry Crabbe

    Prod. Simon Perry

    Starring Albert Finney, Aidan Quinn, Milo O’Shea and Robin Wright Penn
  • Date
    Production (role)
    Company
    Project details
  • Date: 2018
    Production (role): TORVILL & DEAN
    Company: Darlow Smithson Productions/ ITV1
    Project details: Wr. William Ivory

    Prod. Emma Burge
  • Date: 2015
    Production (role): CLEAN BREAK
    Company: Octagon Films / RTE
    Project details: Wr. Billy Roche

    Prods. Emma Burge and John Chapman
  • Date: 2014
    Production (role): CASTLES IN THE SKY
    Company: Black Camel Pictures / BBC
    Project details: Starring Eddie Izzard

    Nominated for Audience Award - Edinburgh Film Festival 2014

    Nominated for Michael Powell Award - Edinburgh Film Festival 2014
  • Date: 2013
    Production (role): THE VILLAGE
    Company: Company Pictures / BBC 1
    Project details: Wr. Peter Moffat

    Starring John Simm and Maxine Peake

    Winner of Mind Media Award 2013

    Nominated for ‘Best Series’ at BAFTA TV Awards 2014
  • Date: 2012
    Production (role): INSPECTOR GEORGE GENTLY: ‘GENTLY NORTHERN SOUL’ and ‘GENTLY WITH CLASS’
    Company: Company Pictures / BBC 1
    Project details: 2 x 90 mins

    Starring Martin Shaw and Lee Ingleby
  • Date: 2011
    Production (role): INSPECTOR GEORGE GENTLY: ‘GOODBYE CHINA’
    Company: Company Pictures / BBC 1
    Project details: 1 x 90 mins

    Starring Martin Shaw and Lee Ingleby
  • Date: 2011
    Production (role): ABOVE SUSPICION 3: DEADLY INTENT
    Company: La Plante Productions / ITV 1
    Project details: Three-part film

    Starring Kelly Reilly and Ciarán Hinds
  • Date: 2010
    Production (role): ABOVE SUSPICION 2: THE RED DAHLIA
    Company: La Plante Productions / ITV 1
    Project details: Three-part film

    Starring Kelly Reilly and Ciarán Hinds
  • Date: 2008
    Production (role): ZIG ZAG LOVE
    Company: Machine Productions / BBC Scotland / BBC
    Project details: Single Film

    Starring Robert Carlyle and Joe McFadden

    Winner of Best Feature - Norwich Film Festival 2009

    Winner of Best UK Film - Swansea Bay Film Festival 2010

    Winner Best Youth Programme - BAFTA Cymru Awards 2010

    Nominated for a Cultural Network Award of Excellence - Creative Output 2009
  • Date: 2008
    Production (role): THE COMMANDER: ABDUCTION
    Company: La Plante Productions / ITV 1
    Project details: Three-part film

    Starring Amanda Burton
  • Date: 2008
    Production (role): TRIAL & RETRIBUTION
    Company: La Plante Productions / ITV 1 (Series 11)
    Project details: Starring David Hayman, Victoria Smurfit and John Lynch
  • Date: 2007
    Production (role): THE HISTORY OF MR POLLY
    Company: Granada / ITV
    Project details: Single Film

    Prod. Katherine Lannon

    Wr. Adrian Hodges

    Starring Lee Evans and Anne Marie Duff

    Nominated for 6 awards at BAFTA Cymru Awards

    Anne Marie Duff won BAFTA Cymru award for Best Actress
  • Date: 2004
    Production (role): GUNPOWDER, TREASON AND PLOT
    Company: BBC / Box TV
    Project details: Wr. Jimmy McGovern

    Prods. Gub Neal and Alan J. Wands

    Starring Robert Carlyle, Kevin McKidd and Clémence Poésy

    Winner of four FIPA Awards 2004 for Best Film, Best Screenplay, Best Actor and Best Actress
  • Date: 2000
    Production (role): LAST OF THE BLONDE BOMBSHELLS
    Company: Working Title Television / BBC
    Project details: Single Film

    Prod. Simon Wright

    Starring Judi Dench, Ian Holm and Romola Garai

    Judi Dench won a GOLDEN GLOBE 2001 and BAFTA for Best Actress 2001
  • Date: 1993
    Production (role): THE YOUNG INDIANA JONES CHRONICLES: 'IRELAND 1916'
    Company: Lucas Film Ltd / Paramount
    Project details: Starring Sean Patrick Flannery
  • Date: 1990
    Production (role): THE GRASS ARENA
    Company: BBC Films
    Project details: Screen Two

    Wr. Frank Deasy

    Prod. Ruth Baumgarten

    Starring Mark Rylance and Pete Poselthwaite

    Edinburgh International Festival

    Michael Powell Award - Best British Feature Film 1991

    Winner Grand Prix, Dinard Film Festival 1991

    Best British Film Dinard Film Festival

    1991 Distributors Award

    San Francisco Film Festival 1992

    'Special Jury Award' Television Feature, Golden Gate Award

    'Special Prize' Prague D'Or (drama programmes)

    Golden Prague International TV Festival 1992

    Nominated Best Single Drama, BAFTA 1992
  • Date: 1990
    Production (role): SCREENPLAY: 'NEEDLE'
    Company: BBC Drama
    Project details: Wr. Jimmy McGovern

    Prod. George Faber

    Nominated for Royal Television Society Drama Award
  • Date: 1989
    Production (role): CONQUEST OF THE SOUTH POLE
    Company: Jam Jar Films / Film Four International
    Project details: Single Film

    Based on a play by Manfred Karge

    Nominated for New Directors Award

    Edinburgh Film Festival 1988
  • Date
    Production (role)
    Company
    Project details
  • Date: 2009
    Production (role): FLESH AND BLOOD (Writer)
    Company: Radio 4
    Project details: Radio Play

    Starring David Hayman and Gary Lewis
  • Date
    Production (role)
    Company
    Project details
  • Date: 1986
    Production (role): PASSING GLORY (Director / Writer)
    Company: NFTS
    Project details: Prod. Billy Mackinnon

    Starring Ida Schuster and Alan Cumming

    Screened Channel 4

    First Scottish Film Prize, Edinburgh International Film Festival
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