Ian’s first feature The Way We Speak stars Actor Awards nominee Patrick Fabian—best known for playing Howard Hamlin in the Peabody Award-winning series Better Call Saul. The film is 93% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, with Matt Zoller Seitz of RogerEbert.com saying “The Way We Speak has already been compared to the work of Aaron Sorkin. The comparison fits…Ebright is ruthless in the best way.” Among the film’s awards, Ian won Best First-Time Director at the 2025 Poppy Jasper International Film Festival and Outstanding Writer of a Narrative Feature at the 2024 Anchorage International Film Festival. Distributed by Gravitas Ventures, The Way We Speak is available to stream in the U.S. and Canada—and on Emirates Airlines. Collider had the exclusive premiere of the film’s official trailer; The Way We Speak received additional coverage in Variety and Deadline.

Ian previously wrote and directed the award-winning short films Pinwheel Horizon, The Devil Needs a Fix, and From the Sky. Set on a distant planet, Pinwheel Horizon was described as a “powerful, thought-provoking piece that deserves to be seen” by Short Films Matter. Film Shortage called Ian’s second short The Devil Needs a Fix “a wonderfully scripted film with a rather brilliant turn of events,” and Cinephilia & Beyond described the Arabic-language thriller From the Sky—the writer-director’s debut—as “an amazing and pioneering short film.”

He’s published interviews ranging from Actor Terence Stamp to New York Times’ Journalist Sam Tanenhaus.