Joseph Andrew Mclean Joseph Andrew Mclean Joseph Andrew McLean (born November 30, 1979) is a Scottish filmmaker. He has written, produced & directed commercials, documentaries, music videos and short films in the UK & USA. McLean was born in Glasgow, Scotland, the son of Anne (née Wason), and Alistair McLean. He has three older siblings Lynn, Alyson and James. He attended St. Peter's Primary in Partick and St. Thomas Aquinas Secondary School in Jordanhill. Born on St. Andrew's Day, he is named after Scotland's Patron Saint. He had a love of film from a young age and was an avid cinema goer, frequenting
The Patron Saint of Eels The Patron Saint of Eels The Patron Saint of Eels (2005) is a novel by Australian author Gregory Day. It won the 2006 ALS Gold Medal. A moral tale, the novel tells the story of an Italian saint, Fra Ionio, who comes down from heaven to the small Australian town of Mangowak, to save some eels trapped in a ditch and to teach life lessons to some locals. Lisa Gorton in "The Age" noted that the novel "is gentle in spirit, reverent and celebratory", and "is as much a tribute to the life of a small town as it is