Ian McClellan started as a company electrician on the 2012 Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning film Beasts of the Southern Wild. He went on to associate produce for Academy Award-winning filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman on their documentary The Battle of AmfAR (premiered Sundance 2013). He earned his MFA at USC in film and television production in December 2016. The last thesis he produced, Lalo’s House, won a Student Academy Award in 2018. McClellan has produced from Los Angeles to New York and Rome to Bangkok on every kind of content from 6-second socials campaigns to feature-length films. His focus has been on turning the moments where directors say, “I know we can’t film this part of the script because it’s too crazy…” into actionable plans.