Ian A Nelson

Santa Rosa, CA
707.321.3990
iananelson.film@gmail.com
www.iananelson.com

LECTURE
PRESENTATION >>

2025 pepperwood preserve Foundation

2025 Laguna de Santa Rosa Foundation

2025 Hallberg Butterfly Gardens

2019 Santa Clara Valley Audubon Society

AWARDS >>

2022 Reims Excellence Director
2022 Best Feature Documentary
2022 Honorable Mention
2021 Green Path
2020 Best of Show
2020 Outstanding Excellence: Original Score
2020 Best Director (Documentary Feature)
2014 Best Short Film

SHORT
DOCUMENTARY >>

2014 / Northern Elephant Seals /
Videographer - Editor - Music Composer

2013 / The Great Blue Herons of Stow Lake /
Videographer - Editor

2014 / California Newts & Frogs /
Videographer - Editor - Music Composer

NATURE &
WILDLIFE >>

2019 / Exploring the Pacific Northwest/ Director - Cinematographer - Editor

2019 / Saving Kauai's Seabirds / Director - Cinematographer - Editor

2019 / Saving Western Burrowing Owls / Director - Cinematographer - Editor

2016 / Sonoma County's Hills and Valleys /
Videographer - Editor - Writer - Music

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE, WILDLIFE, NATURE>>

2021 / Pepperwood: Rising From The Ashes /
Director - Cinematographer - Editor

WILDLIFE
CONSERVATION >>

2025 / Western Monarch Butterflies: Protecting our Pollinators / Director - Cinematographer - Editor

2021 / The Forest Birds of Kauai: Mosquito Transmitted Director - Cinematographer - Editor

2020 / The Forest Birds of Kauai: A Declining Population /
Director - Cinematographer - Editor

2017 / A Seabird's Story /
Director - Cinematographer - Editor

2017 / Keeping Hawaii Wild /
Director - Cinematographer - Editor

2017 / Artificial Burrows: Technology for Conservation /
Director - Cinematographer - Editor

2015 / First Flight: Hawaiian Petrels Journey to Safety /
Field Producer - Videographer - Editor

SKILLS >>

Aerial: FAA Certified sUAS Remote Pilot
Underwater: Scuba and free diving
Language: Fluent in Italian

EDUCATION >>

2012 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Academy of Art University
Major: Motion Picture & Television, Concentration: Cinematography

PUBLICATION >>

VLOG: Meet the People Who Brought Cultural Burning Back to Pepperwood, "Website", 2022
>>Link

Protecting Western Monarch Butterfly, "General Pencil Company, Inc.", 2022
>>LINK

New Video: The Forest Birds of Kauai: Mosquito Transmitted Diseases, "Kauai Forest Bird Recovery Project", 2021
>>LINK

Video Release: The Forest Birds of Kauai: A Declining Population, "Kauai Forest Bird Recovery Project", 2020
>>LINK

Help Protect Seabird Chicks, "American Bird Conservancy", 2017
>>LINK

Visar sin forsta nautrfilm i Vasa, "Vasabladet", _157_, 2014, 18
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Elokuva-uralle Vaasan kautta, "Pohjalainen", _112_, 2014, 17
>>LINK

BROADCASTS >>

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