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.
He made a short film called Passing Glory as his graduation piece, a recreation of Glasgow in the 1950s and 1960s.
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