Ian Edward Weir

Ian Edward Weir is an award-winning filmmaker and educator whose work spans feature documentaries, short films, and music videos. He often shoots, edits, and scores his projects from start to finish. His documentary Tigers of the Sky won the Florida Filmmaker Award at the 2024 Tallahassee Film Festival. Also a studio photographer, Ian shoots headshots for the College and has worked as a unit still photographer on multiple feature films.

Ian is a faculty member at The Florida State University College of Motion Picture Arts, where he has taught documentary filmmaking for 17 years. A two-time FSU graduate, he earned a bachelor’s degree in Communications with an emphasis in Media Production in 2005 and an M.F.A. in Film Production from the College of Motion Picture Arts in 2007. His teaching centers on helping students exercise their creative voices and carry their visions from concept to screen.

A man of both nature and technology, Ian has traveled to biodiverse landscapes around the world to capture the splendor of the natural world, and he is equally at home in the digital realm as a renaissance man of post-production.

A drummer who often scores his own films, Ian thrives on collaborating with creative minds and continues to pursue his passion projects, always to the beat of his own drum.