Talent Guide

Ian McClellan

  • Discipline:Producer
  • Program Year:CNN Docuseries Intensive 2022

Bio

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. He now runs commercials and narrative content from his production company Island Time Pictures. His feature film Derek Changes His Mind is currently in the festival circuit.

Current Project

No Handicap

Logline

Disabled players and their allies are finding ingenious ways using advocacy and technology to fight stigmas and enact change to make electronic gaming more accessible to a community long neglected by game developers. In speaking with differently-abled gamers about their personal experiences and learning more about their unique circumstances, we come to better understand how limitations are negated by the assistive benefits in adaptive equipment.