Ian Waugh is a writer, director and artist working with film and photography.

An alumnus of BFI Network@LFF, Berlinale Talents and EIFF Talent Lab Connects, his films have played at international festivals such as Drama, Stockholm, Kyiv, Busan and BFI London. His work often explores troubled outsiders and conflicts of intimacy, with flawed characters echoed in wild and unforgiving landscapes.

His short film As He Lay Falling was backed by Creative Scotland and premiered in competition at Edinburgh. It screened at 30 international festivals, winning the Directors’ Jury Award at Soria and Special Mentions at Reykjavík and ISFF Cyprus. He is adapting As He Lay Falling into a feature with support from Screen Scotland and the BFI Network, alongside a slate of projects in advanced development and seeking production partners.

Waugh works with photography to further explore emotional landscapes and the psychological experience of place. He has exhibited at home and abroad, received numerous artist bursaries, and made work in residencies in Iceland, Finland, Germany and Scotland.